LEAVES OF A MALLORN:
Essays and Reflections on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Masterworks
I’ve been a deep-seeking Middle-earth wanderer ever since 1965, when I first opened a book titled “The Hobbit” and fell in love with a whole world of imagination. And when I finished reading “The Lord of the Rings” later that same year, my young but desolate heart found a home. Every year after that first journey, I went back again and again, for more than twenty years, to renew, to heal, to discover, to wonder.
In 2002 the Peter Jackson films began to roll out, to the great joy of millions of readers of Tolkien’s books, and I was offered an opportunity to lead an online course on his works. Over the span of three years and many sessions, I generated a series of essays for the course on a wide range of class topics. They were well-received. In “Leaves of a Mallorn”, I offer to readers a large selection of these essays, edited into book form.
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