Lord of the Rings: An Ethical Guide

(Late again.  I apologize.  For whatever that's worth...) This week's chapter is called "Minas Tirith." We return to the...

Apologies for the late post.  I am at a summer camp.  I will probably be less punctual with posts than I have been until August.  But hope...

This week, our text takes us from Minas Tirith back to Isengard, where the rest of the fractured Fellowship is.  This chapter is called ...

"If you have walked all these days with closed ears and mind asleep, wake up now!" ---------------------------------------------...

Trigger Warning:  Rape.  Also, not so much a trigger warning as a disclaimer, I'll be using quite a bit of hetero-normative language and...

This week’s chapter is called "Shelob’s Lair".   In this chapter, Sam and Frodo come to a tunnel.   As they approach it, the stenc...

"Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end," said Frodo, "But the people in them come, and go when...