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175 - Sauron and the Passing Shadow
We continue through our 2025 course on The Lord of the Rings with a focused presentation on the character of Sauron.
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3 months, 2 weeks ago
174 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 4: Many Meetings to The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Book II, Chapters 1-5.
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3 months, 2 weeks ago
173 - Tolkien, Plato and the Ring of Gyges
We continue our Lord of the Rings study with a detour to Plato and a different ring of power.
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3 months, 3 weeks ago
172 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 2: Bombadil & Ringwraiths
We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Book I, Chapters 6-12 (The Old Forest to Flight to the Ford).
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3 months, 3 weeks ago
171 - Tolkien on Allegory and Application
Tolkien is known to despise allegory, but he is also clear that fiction, including his own, has a relationship with the primary world that can be use…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
170 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 1
We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Prologue to Book I, Chapter 5 (A Conspiracy Unmasked).
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4 months ago
169 - The Ainulindalë and the Theology of Tolkien's Legendarium
We begin our Lord of the Rings study with the beginning of Tolkien's world: the Ainulindalë, which tells of the making of Arda and the primordial fal…
4 months ago
168 - The Lord of the Rings (Introduction)
In this new series of Mythic Mind, I will be providing my lessons from the exclusive Lord of the Rings study that we did in early 2025. This is a sho…
4 months, 1 week ago
167 - Has Science Answered the Religious Question?
Neil deGrasse Tyson told Piers Morgan that we do not need to appeal to God to answer cosmological questions because the empirical sciences have demon…
4 months, 1 week ago
166 - C.S. Lewis, Conspiracies, and the Power of Friendship
While it is certain that any number of things may be "really going on," it is not difficult to make the case that the modern internet-saturated cultu…
4 months, 2 weeks ago