John Garth on Tolkien’s life and works https://steady.page/john-garth-on-tolkiens-life-and-works I'm researching how Tolkien's masterpiece grew from 20th-century war. Join to enjoy my insights… and you'll help me pay my Oxford fees. https://assets.steadyhq.com/production/publication/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/logo/1679758993?auto=format&h=1400&w=1400&fit=crop&fm=jpg&crop=faces John Garth on Tolkien’s life and works https://steady.page/john-garth-on-tolkiens-life-and-works <![CDATA[How the tides of Tolkien’s world shaped The Lord of the Rings]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/1dc076aa-158e-4e8a-9071-40da67b794b8 1dc076aa-158e-4e8a-9071-40da67b794b8 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:17:15 +0000 <![CDATA[Tolkien, the critics, and why I’m doing a DPhil on Lord of the Rings]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/6844fccc-a0d0-4e0a-bd91-9920b9331a28 6844fccc-a0d0-4e0a-bd91-9920b9331a28 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:00:29 +0000 <![CDATA[Timeslip with Susan Cooper, conjurer of Light and Dark]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/332c5868-a6de-49ad-b07b-5149341630e9 332c5868-a6de-49ad-b07b-5149341630e9 Sat, 23 May 2026 19:55:57 +0000 <![CDATA[Black Country, white tree: an elegy by the friend who inspired Tolkien]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/cc87db69-8fbe-454b-a547-9e001db44baa cc87db69-8fbe-454b-a547-9e001db44baa Sat, 23 May 2026 13:36:45 +0000 <![CDATA[Book news: Tolkien and the Smith who helped forge his future path]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/d7728234-3e3b-47f3-9aa1-86916a83c047 d7728234-3e3b-47f3-9aa1-86916a83c047 Sat, 23 May 2026 09:32:22 +0000 <![CDATA[On encountering yourself in the wild]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/96096a06-a6b7-4c58-b2c6-0c9c5d04b73f 96096a06-a6b7-4c58-b2c6-0c9c5d04b73f Sun, 10 May 2026 13:36:54 +0000 <![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings: Toughest quiz ever]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/02a6d1f9-cd5f-4d76-8557-e8c687ac5026 02a6d1f9-cd5f-4d76-8557-e8c687ac5026 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:43:30 +0000 <![CDATA[Tolkien’s land of the dead and ‘going west’ in 1914–18]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/f531d78f-613a-4e0b-89ea-5ffe9a78da7e f531d78f-613a-4e0b-89ea-5ffe9a78da7e Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:58:18 +0000 <![CDATA[‘Going west’: How war in 1914 resurrected an ancient image for dying]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/e4515738-0e60-43ae-8bc7-007cf4786241 e4515738-0e60-43ae-8bc7-007cf4786241 Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:23:46 +0000 <![CDATA[Meditation and mosaic: two landmark Tolkien studies]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/bc442c8c-e030-498d-9f5c-150814d1db89 bc442c8c-e030-498d-9f5c-150814d1db89 Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:07:38 +0000 <![CDATA[My 2025 with Tolkien – from Faërie to Minnesota]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/3a208f45-f8b4-4857-af02-19f672c76cd3 3a208f45-f8b4-4857-af02-19f672c76cd3 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:17:45 +0000 <![CDATA[The wartime bomber crash that sent Tolkien racing from his home]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/b3d3f04a-5b7c-4944-a243-72a587c3ed8e b3d3f04a-5b7c-4944-a243-72a587c3ed8e Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:28:20 +0000 <![CDATA[Tolkien’s 1918 return to Oxford: a new discovery]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/5c32ee16-1cb3-4012-b1f5-f745571edbce 5c32ee16-1cb3-4012-b1f5-f745571edbce Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:05:12 +0000 <![CDATA[Deaths, beliefs and griefs observed: C.S. Lewis, Huxley and Kennedy]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/3aa2be1c-1ff8-4986-8c7a-19269674d0b4 3aa2be1c-1ff8-4986-8c7a-19269674d0b4 Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:54:50 +0000 <![CDATA[For remembrance: Robert Quilter Gilson on the eve of war, 1914]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/efe71200-12cc-4f8c-b81d-9a51745dc10c efe71200-12cc-4f8c-b81d-9a51745dc10c Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:38:20 +0000 <![CDATA[Why I had to stop reading C.S. Lewis’s diary]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/fe9e793b-6ffc-49fd-baa3-ed2280897cf6 fe9e793b-6ffc-49fd-baa3-ed2280897cf6 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:52:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Revealed: Tolkien’s 1939 lecture on fairy-stories]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/4ad27203-0885-4b60-8ea1-29f3acf4d3e6 4ad27203-0885-4b60-8ea1-29f3acf4d3e6 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:05:38 +0000 <![CDATA[‘Mounted on the monster’: Tolkien and the motor-car]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/a524a70a-c0cc-4185-a05b-2bd154b182d0 a524a70a-c0cc-4185-a05b-2bd154b182d0 Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:47:54 +0000 <![CDATA[J.R.R. 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I’ve finished my book proposal]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/e2d478be-7824-471a-90ac-cc099639189b e2d478be-7824-471a-90ac-cc099639189b Sun, 19 May 2024 20:36:22 +0000 <![CDATA[Where did Tolkien’s Silmarillion hero Beren get his name?]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/40c3274b-ffc1-4c1e-aba4-547f4d15bd6b 40c3274b-ffc1-4c1e-aba4-547f4d15bd6b Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:31:27 +0000 <![CDATA[How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/ef9ff82b-5184-4cd7-ac85-240749c347e3 ef9ff82b-5184-4cd7-ac85-240749c347e3 Sat, 02 Mar 2024 10:25:55 +0000 <![CDATA[Did Tolkien help the Queen of Denmark to abdicate?]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/71f170d2-fe0a-4ff4-9a32-6bafd760ab6a 71f170d2-fe0a-4ff4-9a32-6bafd760ab6a Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:54:38 +0000 <![CDATA[Goblin caves, ancient scripts and Tolkien’s gift for invention]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/ea96a414-9613-411e-9fd0-084933ab0cf3 ea96a414-9613-411e-9fd0-084933ab0cf3 Sat, 23 Dec 2023 23:51:22 +0000 <![CDATA[Branching out and seasonal sharing]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/a2f30ebc-daab-4f50-8f64-b7cd99614dd2 a2f30ebc-daab-4f50-8f64-b7cd99614dd2 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:11:32 +0000 <![CDATA[Sound and vision]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/342500e2-59d7-4837-bfa0-32fa999d1989 342500e2-59d7-4837-bfa0-32fa999d1989 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:08:16 +0000 <![CDATA[To Rivendell via Anduin]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/ca937473-0a92-42b8-b3e4-76dd70d8787f ca937473-0a92-42b8-b3e4-76dd70d8787f Sat, 02 Dec 2023 23:12:40 +0000 <![CDATA[Wetwang revisited, part four]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/c84dbc0d-55e8-479d-86cb-061f0de25c33 c84dbc0d-55e8-479d-86cb-061f0de25c33 Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:18:35 +0000 <![CDATA[Wetwang revisited, part three]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/39edc608-0f90-4b7f-98e0-dee1d8cd9c45 39edc608-0f90-4b7f-98e0-dee1d8cd9c45 Sun, 05 Nov 2023 22:47:57 +0000 <![CDATA[Wetwang revisited, part two]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/c4c60cb0-76db-4859-acce-f954c58020c9 c4c60cb0-76db-4859-acce-f954c58020c9 Sat, 28 Oct 2023 21:54:54 +0000 <![CDATA[Wetwang revisited, part one]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/9505a8a6-c53d-479c-b4e5-ab36b2a7d80e 9505a8a6-c53d-479c-b4e5-ab36b2a7d80e Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:36:17 +0000 <![CDATA[My talks on YouTube]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/3c528fe9-eba5-49c7-b67a-02b02a6c0784 3c528fe9-eba5-49c7-b67a-02b02a6c0784 Sun, 21 May 2023 14:44:13 +0000 <![CDATA[The Houses of Healing]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/ed9d0f19-75f0-4877-953f-6a9f2592e444 ed9d0f19-75f0-4877-953f-6a9f2592e444 Thu, 18 May 2023 21:16:15 +0000 <![CDATA[Old Joe Sauron?]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/0cd27935-b3a0-436a-8aa6-5f3034783c9e 0cd27935-b3a0-436a-8aa6-5f3034783c9e Sun, 14 May 2023 16:38:55 +0000 <![CDATA[‘A strong start’]]> https://steady.page/1349b33e-4289-414a-ba57-03c8ef0c43ed/posts/033bc8ad-c9e8-4251-b277-c2b8bf093570 033bc8ad-c9e8-4251-b277-c2b8bf093570 Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:38:49 +0000