Welcome . . . to the Halls of Mandos!

Nahhh! Your fëa didn’t leave your hröa. This is just my new, no-frills WordPress website and blog. Just a place I can hang my hat for now. Err, metaphorically speaking. I’ve got an About page, an Articles page, a Books page, and an FAQ, so far.

One thing I would like to bring up here in my first blog entry is my latest writing endeavour: a bit of “popular scholarship” called The Silmarillion Primer. This is the revised and upgraded version of the Primer that first appeared on Tor.com back in 2017. That online series is still there, but I’ve done so much rerwriting and fixing already that it looks like old crayon drawings by comparison (to me, anyway). They’re very colorful, and I’m still proud of them, but I can’t look at it anymore; I’ll only see the mistakes.

This is the near-finished cover art by
illustrator/blacksmith/artist-of-all-trades
David DelaGardelle.

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