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Leaf and Lamp explores Tolkien, storytelling, and Christian imagination through essays on sub-creation and original works of poetry, fiction, and art.
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The Golden Spent (opens the original)
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FREE GIVEAWAY: The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien: Edited by Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond ($125 value!) (opens the original)
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I will not treat your dusty path and flat,denoting this and that by this and that,your world immutable wherein no partthe little maker has with maker's art.I bow not yet before the Iron Crown,nor cast my own small golden sceptre down.—J.R.R. Tolkien, Mythopoeia1<a class="image-link image2" href="https://subst
How Hobbits Can Save Us from Hyperreality (opens the original)
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The Sounds of Shores (opens the original)
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GIVEAWAY: The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation by Robert J. Dobie (opens the original)
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