I admit that I didn’t quite know what I was picking up when I opened The Hobbit and Philosophy: For When You’ve Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way. At the time, I was three quarters of the way through The Hobbit for the umpteenth time, but because I was reading it to my […]
Why I Read The Hobbit and Philosophy: For When You’ve Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way, Edited by Gregory Bassham and William Irwin
2014-12-28 · by ·
The Best Fantasy Books…? [Poll]
2014-10-28 · by ·
What’s on your list of the best fantasy books? A while back I put together my Top 25 Science-Fiction Books list. Making the list was a blast. I took a walk down memory road and reminisced about reading some of my favorite novels, talking about why I had enjoyed them, and evaluated how they had affected […]
After Sandy Hook, what can we learn about good and evil from The Hobbit?
2012-12-19 · by ·
With the deaths of so many in Newtown, Connecticut, it can be easy to see the power of evil in the world. Indeed, it can be hard to see anything but evil in the deaths of so many innocent people. Youth is a time of hope and promise, and schools are intended to be a […]