Dragons and the Imaginative Mind of J.R.R. Tolkien
Smaug in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. J. R. R Tolkien had a life-long fascination with dragons. In his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” he spoke…
Smaug in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. J. R. R Tolkien had a life-long fascination with dragons. In his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” he spoke…
J.R.R. Tolkien This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. In the essay, “On Fairy-Stories,” J.R.R. Tolkien speaks of a subject close to his heart. He had a life-long interest in…
This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. Many authors borrow from fairy-tales, myths, and legends and adapt or transform them to suit their own stories. I recently read The History…
This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. Have you ever considered having stories or songs within your tales? J. R. R. Tolkien does this masterfully within The Lord of the…
This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. Authors can use narrators in many different ways to add value to any story. Among them, they can speak directly and indirectly to…
This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. Andy Serkis as Smeagol There would be no Lord of the Rings without the title character and the galaxy far, far away would…
This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. I am a master procrastinator and gold-medal winner in the art of distracting myself from what is important. I was so daunted by…
This article is by Anne Marie Gazzolo. It’s possible to build characters who achieve a secondary reality, and become people who live in their own right in our hearts and…
…at the population map maintained by Matthew Davis on his website. [2] Anne-Marie Chiramberro. “How the Basques defeated Europe’s greatest army and how history erased them,” History. Hella-Basque. August 22,…
This article is by Anne Leonard. A current – and recurring – topic of conversation in the SFF writer/ blogger/ reader community is the lack of people of color (POC)…