Tolkien in Film
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Through a Glass Darkly: The Diminution of Heroism in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy
After recently rewatching Peter Jackson’s rightfully famous and well-regarded The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, it occurred…
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Reading Tolkien in the Time of Trump
Now that it’s Tolkien Appreciation Month here at Queerly Different, I thought I’d begin this year’s month with…
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The Exquisite Queerness of Jackson’s “The Hobbit”
It is no secret that we queers have always had an appreciation and an adoration of…
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Are Tolkien’s Orcs Really THAT Evil?
In the moral universe Tolkien created, good and evil, at least on the surface, appear fairly…
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Why I’m Not a Tolkien Purist
We Tolkien fans are, not surprisingly, a very diverse group. There are those of us, for…
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In Praise of Christopher Tolkien
Today I finally got around to finishing up a post I started two years ago. For…
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