Genres & Styles
epub |eng | 2021-03-29 | Author:Darryl Jones [Jones, Darryl]

5b. William Blake, Nebuchadnezzar (1795). Sometimes lycanthropy is, as Pliny maintained, a straightforward curse, a misfortune brought upon an innocent through sheer bad luck, or as a result of a ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural August 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-19 | Author:Sabrina Imbler

All of Lesbos doubles as an officially recognized geopark, deemed so for its abundance of petrified forests, the broken bones of giant sequoias that once circled the island in green ...
( Category: Nature July 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-29 | Author:Bradley J. Birzer;

Although political significance may be read into some of the more influential fantasies of our century, it is notable how successfully our fabulists have sheered away from ideology in an ...
( Category: Religion July 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-15 | Author:Philip Ryken;

PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS As faithful friends, Frodo, Sam, and the other hobbits are models of Christian virtue and exemplars of the priesthood of all believers. They nobly bear one another’s burdens, ...
( Category: Religion July 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-01 | Author:Orange Hippo!;

( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-20 | Author:Colin Duriez;

8 Leeds and dragons Leeds University lacked the bright, ancient splendour of Oxford. The sooty air from its manufacturing industry made its mock Gothic Victorian buildings grimy. A short walk ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Groom;

Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of our time . . . The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the ...
epub |eng | | Author:David Day;

NORSE MYTHOLOGY The myths and legends of the Norse people found in a rich body of medieval texts, principally such Old Norse poems as the Poetic Edda and the Prose ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-25 | Author:David Day;

* * * PART FOUR THE QUEST OF THE LONELY MOUNTAIN A CONSPIRACY OF DWARVES The quiet life of Bilbo Baggins of Bag End is forever disturbed by the unexpected ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Bronson, Eric,Bassham, Gregory & Eric Bronson

Chapter 10 HOBBITUS LUDENS Why Hobbits Like to Play and Why We Should, Too David L. O’Hara Every two years, athletes gather from all over the world so that they ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien;Verlyn Flieger;

Notes and Commentary 67 not originally written for this society. See Introduction to the Essays. Tolkien first delivered this talk to the Sundial Society of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Caldecott, Stratford.;

Given its centrality in Tolkien’s mythology as the link between the world of today and the Elder Days when the world was flat, between mythical time and historical time, the ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 15,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Day, David.;

BEOWULF AND THE BATTLE As a professor of Anglo-Saxon literature and an expert on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, J.R.R. Tolkien did not have to look far to discover ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-09-05 | Author:Nick Groom;

Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of our time… The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what ...