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Magical Borders

Mar 16, 2009 | Chronicles

Or Fantasy, Reality, and the Places They Choose to Meet You wouldn’t likely recognize the name Laurie Battle, but you’d be familiar with her work. Laurie has managed Tolkien Enterprises through thick and thin, storm and fair weather, for the last three decades, and...

From Babel to Barad-Dûr

Mar 1, 2009 | Chronicles

Or a Tale of Two Towers: Art and Archetypes in Middle-Earth Tolkien’s Middle-Earth is conspicuous in that it contains no places of worship. Few fantasy authors resist the urge to have temples and gods (usually malevolent ones with slimy and unappetizing minions,...