Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: J.R.R. Tolkien -LECTURE: BEOWULF: THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS BY J. R. R. TOLKIEN (IR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ LECTURE 1936, 25 November 1936)[PDF]
    -LETTER: “There’s no invention in the void.”: Read a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien on the origins of Middle-earth. (Emily Temple, July 15, 2022, LitHub)
    -Letter To Milton Waldman (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1951)
    -PODCAST: Podcast: Tolkien Takes Us Places: Unearthing the real-life places and events that inspired fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien. (Atlas Obscura, OCTOBER 9, 2023)
    -PODCAST: Episode 341: 'Leaf by Niggle' by J. R. R. Tolkien (John J. Miller, 24 September 2024, National Review: The Great Books)
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    -SUMMARY: The Hobbit in a Nutshell (JOSEPH PEARCE, 10/22/22, Crisis)
    -SUMMARY: Lord of the Rings in a Nutshell (Joseph Pearce, 11/05/22. Crisis)
    -ESSAY: Forgotten Classics: The Silmarillion is Worth Your Time. No, Really! (Felix James Miller, 2/25/23, European Conservative)
    -ESSAY: The political philosophy of Tolkien (Gary McGath, November 21, 2023, Online Library of Liberty)
    -ESSAY: The Fellowship and Me (Liv Ross, 5/18/24, Voegelin View)
    -ESSAY: Dragons, Hoards, and Theft: Beowulf and The Hobbit (Anna Leman, June 16, 2023m, Online Library of Liberty)
    -ESSAY: How Tolkien’s Frenemy, Charles Williams, Indirectly Saved Lord of the Rings (John Shelton on July 11, 2024, Providence)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien's Secret: Tolkien’s tale reminds us that we ourselves are part of the Great Story. (Robert Lazu Kmita, June 8, 2024, European Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Clausewitz in Middle-Earth: Although the setting feels medieval, the War of the Ring is recognizably a modern war. (Graham Macaleer, 5/24/24, Law & Liberty))
    -ESSAY: The Hidden Meaning of the One Ring : Tolkien shows us the similarity between machinery and magic, which both point to the desire for power. (Robert Lazu Kmita, January 4, 2024, European Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Liturgical Conservatism and the Modern Novel: The greatest Catholic writers of the 20th century drew on the deep riches of the liturgy to speak to the secular age. (Roy Peachey, October 29, 2023, European Conservative)
    -ESSAY: How Tolkien filled Middle-Earth with a “weird realism” philosophy: The One Ring has its own agency and sentience — and it opens up a wonderful philosophy of things beyond our comprehension. (Nick Groom, 9/09/23, Big Think)
    -ESSAY: The Tragedy of Despair (Nathaniel Urban, September 5th, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Misreading Middle-Earth: Tolkien and the Contemporary Reader: Fantasy is more popular than ever, and this is the direct consequence of Tolkien’s success. But the genre has survived by adapting, and in an age of secularism, that process has involved evaporating the religious themes Tolkien cared about so deeply. (Josh Allan, 2 Sep 2023, Quillette)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited: Dennis Wilson Wise reviews two books on Tolkien and the challenges Tolkien studies faces when engaging the wider discipline. (Dennis Wilson Wise, September 25, 2024, LA REview of Books)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien and Theology (Bradley J. Birzer, September 2nd, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien, 50 years on: The true scale of his legacy is gradually becoming apparent (Sebastian Milbank, 9/02/23, The Critic)
    -ESSAY: How J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels were inspired by Medieval poems of ‘northern bravery’ (Madeleine S. Killacky, September 1, 2023 , The Conversation)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien’s Traditionalism: Conveniently Forgotten? (Julian Kwasniewski, June 13th, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Good and Evil in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings (Pedro Blas Gonzalez, 3/06/23, Voegelin View)
    -ESSAY: The Death and Resurrection of Bilbo Baggins (Joseph Pearce, February 8th, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: “The Hobbit” and Virtue (Joseph Pearce, November 13th, 2022, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: “Sad but not unhappy”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s vision of sorrow and joy (Ralph C. Wood, 5 September 2022, ABC REligion & Ethics)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien’s Easter Joy in “The Lord of the Rings” (Nathaniel Birzer, April 16th, 2022, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien's Political Soulcraft (Titus Techera, 2/02/22, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien's Intricate Politics: Tolkien saw the destructive potential of all forms of government. He endorsed none of them through his stories. (Henry T. Edmondson III, 2/25/22, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien on Reality (Joseph Pearce, April 27th, 2022, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Socialism, Nationalism, and Tolkien: How an unfinished Lord of the Rings sequel gives insight into young radicals on the left and right. (Alec Dent, Sep 3/22, The Dispatch)
    -ESSAY: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Jewish Dwarves (Matthew Wills September 24, 2022, JStor Daily)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien’s True Love: The values of Tolkien’s world are not those of moral relativism, but those of the traditional Christian conception of courtship and romantic loyalty, in which the intimate aspects of love are treated with discretion and respect that protects their nobility. (Robert Lazu Kmita, June 21, 2023, European Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien’s Paradise: Tolkien’s work contains vast symbols of the cosmic conflict between good and evil. (Robert Lazu Kmita, September 1, 2024, European Conservative)
    -ESSAY: J.R.R. Tolkien on War (Brian A. Smith, November 8, 2024, Religion & Liberty)
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    -REVIEW: of Tolkien's Modern Reading by Holly Ordway (Bradley J. Birzer, Law & Liberty)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Who is Tom Bombadil? In Search of the “One-Answer-To-Rule-Them-All”: a review of In the House of Tom Bombadil by C.R. Wiley (Jeremy Johnston, July 6, 2022, Front Porch Republic)
    -ESSAY: Who Is Tom Bombadil? (JACK BUTLER, July 11, 2022, National Review)
    -ESSAY: Stratford Caldecott & the Secret Fire: Understanding Tolkien (Robert Lazu Kmita, June 10th, 2024, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Between Middle Earth and the West: 130 years from his birth, what can we learn from Tolkien? (David Engels, 3 January, 2022, The Critic)
    -ESSAY: The Power of Poetry in The Hobbit (MARY CUFF, 10/16/21 Crisis)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien's Ring: When immortality is not enough (Spengler, 1/05/04, Asia Times)
    --ESSAY: Christ Figures in “The Lord of the Rings” (Joseph Pearce, February 8th, 2021, Imaginative Conservative)
    -LECTURE: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: J.R.R.TOLKIEN, CATHOLICISM AND THE USE OF ALLEGORY (David (Lord) Alton at the Catholic Society of Bath University and Bath Spa University College on Thursday 20th of February 2003)
    -ESSAY: THE RETURN OF THE KING: TOLKIEN AND THE NEW MEDIEVALISM: The obsession with power, will and hierarchy in Peter Jackson’s film trilogy adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings fuels its dangerous topicality: a vindication and veneration of empire. (K.A. DILDAY, OpenDemocracy)
    -ESSAY: THE RING AND THE RINGS: Wagner vs. Tolkien (ALEX ROSS, 2003-12-15, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World (Damien Bador, April 8, 2021, Lit Hub)
    -REVIEW: of The Hobbit (C. S. Lewis, The Times Literary Supplement, October 2, 1937)
    -ESSAY: How the Horror and Fellowship of World War I Shaped “Lord of the Rings” (ALEX LAUER, 12/20/21, Inside Hook)
    -ESSAY: Fate and Will in Tolkien’s “Beowulf” (Bradley J. Birzer|September 24th, 2024, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Swallowed by the Dragon: Monstrous Meanings in Tolkien’s Stories: The hero must absorb the monster’s magical power so that he can defeat other great monsters. Robert Lazu Kmita, November 17, 2024, European Conservative)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Tolkien’s “The Children of Húrin” (Bradley J. Birzer, September 10th, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)
    -REVIEW: of The Fall of Númenor, And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth By J. R. R. Tolkien (Ben Reinhard, University Bookman)
    -REVIEW: of Tolkien and Theology, edited by Douglas Estes (Stephen H. Conlin, Imaginative Conservative)
    -REVIEW: of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition Edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien (Isaiah Flair. University Bookman)
    -REVIEW: of Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkien’s Middle-earth by James E. Siburt (Jesse Russell, Voegelin View)
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FILM:

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    -REVIEW ESSAY: Defenders of Civilization: Two problems—war and kingship—should guide the viewer revisiting Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films twenty years later. (Titus Techera, 1/28/22, Law & Liberty)
    -TV REVIEW: The Rings of Power: The Necessity of Vigilance and the Limits of Beauty (Marc LiVecche on September 9, 2022, Providence)
    -REVIEW: of J. R. R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics by Hamish Williams (Graham MacAleer, Law & Liberty)
    -REVIEW: of Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography by Holly Ordway and C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin (lee Oser, Law & Liberty)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: First publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s collected poems offers new insights into the Lord of the Rings author’s personality (Tom Emanuel,S eptember 10, 2024, The Conversation)

TELEVISION:


    -ESSAY: Rings of Power: Sauron’s Call and the Way of the Servant King (ANNA DAUB | NOVEMBER 06, 2022, Center for Faith & Culture)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien’s Precious Words and the Rise of Canon Gatekeeping: With apologies to overzealous fans, there is no One Canon to rule them all... (Curtis A. Weyant, November 18, 2024, Reactor)
    -ESSAY: Gandalf and the Search for One’s True Name: “No one can give you a name. It is yours already... And when you hear it spoken, you feel your heart glow.” (Sylas K Barrett, November 20, 2024, Reactor)
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    -TV REVIEW: of Rings of Power: The Lore of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction is suffused with the pleasures of scholarship and study. Amazon’s new franchise The Rings of Power can’t sit still. (Austin Gilkeson, January 24, 2023, NY Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination (edited by Andrew D. Thrasher and Austin M. Freeman) (Timothy Lawrence, Voegelin View)