Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: J.R.R. Tolkien
    -LETTER: “There’s no invention in the void.”: Read a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien on the origins of Middle-earth. (Emily Temple, July 15, 2022, LitHub)
    -Letter To Milton Waldman (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1951)
    -SUMMARY: The Hobbit in a Nutshell (JOSEPH PEARCE, 10/22/22, Crisis)
    -SUMMARY: Lord of the Rings in a Nutshell (Joseph Pearce, 11/05/22. Crisis)
    -ESSAY: Forgotten Classics: The Silmarillion is Worth Your Time. No, Really! (Felix James Miller , 2/25/23, European Conservative)
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    -ESSAY: Good and Evil in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings (Pedro Blas Gonzalez, 3/06/23, Voegelin View)
    -ESSAY: The Death and Resurrection of Bilbo Baggins (Joseph Pearce, February 8th, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: “The Hobbit” and Virtue (Joseph Pearce, November 13th, 2022, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: “Sad but not unhappy”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s vision of sorrow and joy (Ralph C. Wood, 5 September 2022, ABC REligion & Ethics)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien’s Easter Joy in “The Lord of the Rings” (Nathaniel Birzer, April 16th, 2022, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien's Political Soulcraft (Titus Techera, 2/02/22, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien's Intricate Politics: Tolkien saw the destructive potential of all forms of government. He endorsed none of them through his stories. (Henry T. Edmondson III, 2/25/22, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien on Reality (Joseph Pearce, April 27th, 2022, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Socialism, Nationalism, and Tolkien: How an unfinished Lord of the Rings sequel gives insight into young radicals on the left and right. (Alec Dent, Sep 3/22, The Dispatch)
    -ESSAY: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Jewish Dwarves (Matthew Wills September 24, 2022, JStor Daily)
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    -REVIEW: of Tolkien's Modern Reading by Holly Ordway (Bradley J. Birzer, Law & Liberty)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Who is Tom Bombadil? In Search of the “One-Answer-To-Rule-Them-All”: a review of In the House of Tom Bombadil by C.R. Wiley (Jeremy Johnston, July 6, 2022, Front Porch Republic)
    -ESSAY: Who Is Tom Bombadil? (JACK BUTLER, July 11, 2022, National Review)
    -ESSAY: Between Middle Earth and the West: 130 years from his birth, what can we learn from Tolkien? (David Engels, 3 January, 2022, The Critic)
    -ESSAY: The Power of Poetry in The Hobbit (MARY CUFF, 10/16/21 Crisis)
    -ESSAY: Tolkien's Ring: When immortality is not enough (Spengler, 1/05/04, Asia Times)
    --ESSAY: Christ Figures in “The Lord of the Rings” (Joseph Pearce, February 8th, 2021, Imaginative Conservative)
    -LECTURE: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: J.R.R.TOLKIEN, CATHOLICISM AND THE USE OF ALLEGORY (David (Lord) Alton at the Catholic Society of Bath University and Bath Spa University College on Thursday 20th of February 2003)
    -ESSAY: THE RETURN OF THE KING: TOLKIEN AND THE NEW MEDIEVALISM: The obsession with power, will and hierarchy in Peter Jackson’s film trilogy adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings fuels its dangerous topicality: a vindication and veneration of empire. (K.A. DILDAY, OpenDemocracy)
    -ESSAY: THE RING AND THE RINGS: Wagner vs. Tolkien (ALEX ROSS, 2003-12-15, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World (Damien Bador, April 8, 2021, Lit Hub)
    -REVIEW: of The Hobbit (C. S. Lewis, The Times Literary Supplement, October 2, 1937)
    -ESSAY: How the Horror and Fellowship of World War I Shaped “Lord of the Rings” (ALEX LAUER, 12/20/21, Inside Hook)
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    -REVIEW: of The Fall of Númenor, And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth By J. R. R. Tolkien (Ben Reinhard, University Bookman)

FILM:

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    -REVIEW ESSAY: Defenders of Civilization: Two problems—war and kingship—should guide the viewer revisiting Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films twenty years later. (Titus Techera, 1/28/22, Law & Liberty)
    -TV REVIEW: The Rings of Power: The Necessity of Vigilance and the Limits of Beauty (Marc LiVecche on September 9, 2022, Providence)

TELEVISION:


    -ESSAY: Rings of Power: Sauron’s Call and the Way of the Servant King (ANNA DAUB | NOVEMBER 06, 2022, Center for Faith & Culture)
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    -TV REVIEW: of Rings of Power: The Lore of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction is suffused with the pleasures of scholarship and study. Amazon’s new franchise The Rings of Power can’t sit still. (Austin Gilkeson, January 24, 2023, NY Review of Books)