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Opinion

Tolkien's views… or my own

A great library is a book of lives … and a life-changer

Like countless other writers, I owe a great debt to libraries in general. Like many, I owe a particular one to the British Library.

June 24, 2026 7 Reactions

On encountering yourself in the wild

There are discomforts as well as delights in unexpectedly meeting your own work reflected back at you. Tolkien and the Great War has brought me a few of both...

May 10, 2026 3 Reactions

Tolkien Reading Day and the machine war against imagination

Tolkien Reading Day marks the destruction of the Ruling Ring, Tolkien's symbol of the machine. Now his works are being used to train AI. What would he have thought?

March 25, 2025 4 Reactions