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The Fairy in the Machine

‘The knife the least’ : Túrin’s gift and Morgoth’s curse

Announcing The Daily Word of the Rings – A Tolkien Project

The Man that Time Forgot

‘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

Charles’ Chance

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’

Thorin’s Dragon

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)

But is it canon? – Discussing the importance of internal narrative consistency in the Art of story-telling

Naught but wood: A subtextual analysis of the hidden story of Gimli the Dwarf

The Failure of Sam Gamgee

A diversionary solution: Revisiting and analysing my puzzle

The Matrix: Res…Revisions

Dance and the art of Story

~~2021~~

A diversionary puzzle

Captains of the West: Some thoughts on Boromir and Éomer

A flawed masterpiece: Why Return of the Jedi is my favourite Star Wars film

Some admin details: Out with the old (email subscription service), in with the new (email subscription service)

“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)

Tangled and the eucatastrophe

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

Coronavirus, Protests and Misinformation

On the One Ring’s Sentience

Isildur: Villain, or misunderstood?