I am reviving my Substack series on Tolkien's letters.
In this freebie episode, I discuss a 1916 letter to Edith Bratt in which Tolkien mentions his "mad hobby" that would one day lead to the creation of Middle-earth.
Watch Tolkien write and speak a bit of Elvish here
Get the book: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780358652984
A look around the new site, plus Mythic Mind ep. 195 and Games ep. 55.
The Stanley Parable offers you freedom, then shows you that every path was already built for you. But a script you did not write is not necessarily a prison: meaning can be discovered rather than invented, and real freedom needs limits to push against.
Did the people of Middle-earth know how their story ends? Rev. Jeffrey Wade joins Andrew Snyder and Josh to discuss his master's thesis on eschatology in Arda.
Hello, Fellowship, Here are a few things happening around the hearth: New on Mythic Mind: The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty? (ep. 194) We all know we will die one day. It is another thing to consider that it is I who am going to die. In this
