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The Lord of the Rings has been a borderline obsession since I first finished it in 8th grade. The timing worked out great too, as the next year was the release of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), the beginning of the movie trilogy. On my blog here I've written about Tolkien's legendarium on a number of occasions. As part of that I've kinda sorta been making my way through the main Lord of the Rings story, with several detours along the way. So far I've cov

I don't often say movies change my life, but it's possible that can actually be true. Before we get far down that line of thinking, however, right now I'm referring specifically to the music I seek out. Music has never been an obsession, like movies or books might be, but obviously I do like it. My tastes just don't shift all that much. The last example of this, I think, was Walk the Line (2005) . I remember when Johnny Cash died a couple years prior, and knew it was a big d

At this stage of life I didn't think I was a big fan of fairy tales. That's something you grow out of, right? Well this spring I was...

As a kid, in middle school probably, I read the first two parts of C.S. Lewis ' Space Trilogy. Then, for some reason, I could not get...

A couple years ago, when I picked a favorite movie per year , a great experiment btw, there was one recent choice that, at the time,...

Kindergarten, and 'real school,' is when most kids truly start learning to read. It's a crazy process to watch, and one that's certainly...

Marvel's Daredevil , as a super hero, is less popular than the characters of the cinematic Avengers like Spider-Man, Iron Man or Hulk....

I can't remember the last time I read something as quickly as I read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . For one it's an engaging, amusing,...

I started reading the Iliad (Fitzgerald translation) last year, well before learning about Nolan and the Odyssey , part of a prolonged...

In 2001 HBO put out a show called Band of Brothers following a real-life paratrooper company through most of the major events of WWII's...

After watching True Detective: Night Country, aka s4, it brought back an idea long in the hopper. This'll be a short list of single...

As you likely know, I love Dune . As a much younger person I read all the books that were then out, I still have a bunch of them, and...

In 2016, when Stranger Things debuted, it immediately became a favorite show of mine . Arguably #1. Mix a bit of Stephen King, a bit of...

This year I started reading some longer, more advanced books to our eldest (and the two others if they sit still and be quiet), who's...

Our daughter and youngest just turned two recently. It made me think of something. The Simpsons has always been big, essential really, in...

The Olympics are over, but there's still a good story to tell and you'll have to pretend this was more timely. This year, for the XXXIII...

When I first saw ads for House of the Dragon, I was profoundly confused. Who wants this?!? My reaction shouldn't be surprising, the...

Until very recently I knew the name Burt Reynolds, but to be honest I think I'd only completed one of his movies, the original The...

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord , the Allied invasion of France during World War II. It was the largest...

After we finished The Hobbit I was determined to regularly keep reading better, longer books to our firstborn. The next book seemed...