Another Magical Ring
By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 3089 Rated: PG Summary: Frodo finds another magical ring, meets an ifrit, and makes some new friends. Frodo wandered near the base of Mount Doom. He didn’t really want to…
Author: Fellowship & Fairydust
Inspiring faith and creativity & exploring the arts through a spiritual lens
Manvë and Tulkas as God’s Warriors
Two most outstanding of the male Valar were Manvë and Tulkas. Manvë is the mightiest of all the Ainur and Ilúvatar’s dearest. He was chosen to administer Arda and is therefore called its King. This…
Capax Infiniti
Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. ~Cesare Pavese This lonely windblown instant on the gravelly edge of a muddy middle-of-nowhere parking lot right before the storm.…
J. R. R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings: “The Prayers at the Foot of the Altar” and The Dark Night of the Soul
The landscape and illumination of J.R.R. Tolkien's mind exposes far more than a vast and expansive fantasy world, but also a glimpse into a Catholic mind which understood implicitly that 'The Conqueror’s Weapon is the…
Manwaelmelwe: Protector of Middle Earth
By Caitey M Gehan Word Count: 848 Rated: G (A little bit of visible violence) Summary: Manwae, the lady-in-waiting of Arwen, is sent out to defend the weak of Middle Earth and perhaps find her…
The Synod of Whitby: Part One – Introduction
This is the name retrospectively given to the gathering of Christian clerics at the double monastery of Streaneshalch, located above the town now known as Whitby in 664 AD/CE – in the seventh century. Bede…
A Beacon for Losers
~ by Angela Camack “I draw them like heat-seeking missiles,” thought Hannah, sitting on the steps of the Alexander Library. “That’s the only logical explanation.” She was thinking about lonely people, Lonely people who seemed…
Brian Bedford: In Memoriam
~ by Avellina Balestri Some voices shape our own In memory, in manifestation In twist of accent, turn of tone In the comfort they give, the hope they plant Those are the voices that form…
“May He Live Forever!”: A Casual Muslim Reader Reflects on the Christian Fantasy Works of Lewis and Tolkien
I am a Canadian of Pakistani ancestry and a practicing Muslim. Not a perfect Muslim, as I swear like a sailor, but practicing as best I can. I was born in the 1980s and spent…