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“We think as well as we read, and we read as well as we kneel!”

February 4, 2026 Carl E. Olson 7

Joseph Pearce is the author of numerous books, including biographies of G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, William Shakespeare, and more, and is the editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series. He has written books about literature, including Literature: What […]

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Assessing The Rings of Power at the end of season 1

October 20, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 26

“There are powers beyond darkness at work in this world. Perhaps on days like this, we have little choice but to trust to their designs and surrender our own.” So says Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) in […]

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The Rings of Power: Season 1 at the halfway mark

September 15, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 24

Halfway through the eight episodes of the first season of Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the pieces are starting to fall into place. A story that started with such […]

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The Rings of Power: Fantasy with Tolkienian roots, but not of Tolkien

September 4, 2022 Thomas M. Doran 2

I’ve only viewed the trailer and two episodes of Amazon’s The Rings of Power. How can I say where it’s going? After all, I’ve seen characters out of J. R. R. Tolkien’s grand myth and […]

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