Myth Matters

I am on a lifelong quest to read everything ever penned by J. R. R. Tolkien. *contented sigh*

I’ve read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings many, many times, and the unabridged audiobooks are on a fairly constant rotation in my car. The Silmarillion, which was published posthumously and sets forth the mythology and history of Middle Earth, has become an increasingly foundational book for my philosophy as a reader and my work as a writer. Then, several years ago, I dis...