‘The knife the least’ : Túrin’s gift and Morgoth’s curse
Announcing The Daily Word of the Rings – A Tolkien Project
‘The mighty from their thrones’ – Aragorn before Meduseld
~~2023~~
Merry Fellows – on Tom Bombadil and Father Christmas
Sisyphus’ Boulder – On the Faery Irreality of Taskmaster
Pity and the Ring: On Sam and Gandalf’s temptations
An Unexpected Blog of Mazarbul Golden Jubilee Post!
Why The Man with the Golden Gun is the perfect Bond reboot
‘Goblin Feet’ – Sorrow and Loss in Tolkien’s Least Tale
Smith of Wootton Major: An ode to the wonder of wandering
Farmer Giles: Impostor Syndrome in the Little Kingdom
Niggle’s Glimpse: In praise of a silly little artist
Announcing the September Series: Tolkien’s Lesser Tales
Wait what…was Reva’s plan in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’?
Durin VII, Reincarnation, and the Beautiful Dwarvish Long Defeat
Gwen Stacy & the Hero’s Journey in Across the Spider-Verse
“I (don’t) see you” – Why couldn’t Sauron find the Ring?
Wait what…was Grindelwald doing in the American Ministry for Magic?
Wait what?…is this new blog post series?
Generous deed and cold counsel: Gandalf’s humility in Gondor
Miguel’s family and Earth-67 in Across the Spider-Verse
Blank Pages, Golden Sceptres – Presumption and Power in Art
The Price of Pride and Prejudice in ‘Across the Spider-Verse’
Wait…how exactly does the One Ring make you evil?
‘The work of the hands which thou hast made’ – Of Aulë and Yavanna: Tolkien’s Odd Couple
A Little More is Never Enough – The Joys of Sobriety
Triskaidekaphobia and fortune in ‘The Hobbit’
~~2022~~
Faery Joy and Thomistic Elves in ‘Smith of Wootton Major’
A Nice Eucatastrophe: An analysis of ‘The Nice Guys’
The Blog of Mazarbul has moved! (Don’t Panic)
“Pretty fair nonsense” – On Elvish frivolity in ‘The Hobbit’
More things in Heaven and Earth: On Faerie, the Unexplained, and the Unexplored of ‘The Hobbit’
Back Again: Reflecting on Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’
The Blog of Mazarbul’s Obligatory Rings of Power Hot Take (That is Probably Wrong)
Naught but wood: A subtextual analysis of the hidden story of Gimli the Dwarf
A diversionary solution: Revisiting and analysing my puzzle
~~2021~~
Captains of the West: Some thoughts on Boromir and Éomer
A flawed masterpiece: Why Return of the Jedi is my favourite Star Wars film
“Don’t you wish it could all be real” – Tolkien and subcreation; theology and fiction
Ron Weasley and the Slytherin in the Closet (2/2)
Ron Weasley and the Reworked Characterisation (1/2)
Distinction without Difference: A Theory on the Secret Fire and the Flame Imperishable
~~2020~~
“The time of my thought is my own to spend” – a tribute to Dáin Ironfoot
Outwit: Outplay: Outlast – Politics in the age of Reality TV