by M. W. Wollacott | Nov 19, 2023 | Beasts and Monsters, Fantasy, Tolkien
My childhood was filled with fantastical tales. I did not grow up on J.R.R. Tolkien’s work because by the 1980s, most of the shelves were filled with the derivatives and the knock offs. I grew up on Dragonlance and Raymond E. Feist. Yet, the primary races – the...
by M. W. Wollacott | Nov 19, 2023 | Beasts and Monsters, Fantasy, Tolkien
The Battle of the Five Armies has a movie named after it, but is it not immediately obvious to anyone watching it what the five armies are. We have the dwarfs – a mixture of Erebor and the Iron Hills, we have the wood elves of Mirkwood, the humans of Lake Town,...
