Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Power of Stories

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The blog of fantasy author Deborah J. Ross, "In Troubled Times," includes a post on the healing function of stories: How Stories...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

Worlds with Depth

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The Fall/Winter issue of MYTHLORE includes an article by Katherine Sas on creating the "impression of depth" in a work of fiction ...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

In Defense of Unsuspicious Immersion

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The May 2018 issue of PMLA (the journal of the Modern Language Association) contains an article by Faye Halpern titled "Beyond Contempt...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Thought Floating on Different Blood

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I've been rereading a couple of Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters novels. Magicians in this series work with one of the classic fo...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Fantasy and/as Escape

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A heartily recommended story in APEX (which can be read at no charge): "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal...
Thursday, July 06, 2017

Portal Fantasy Aftermaths

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"Portal fantasy" is one of my favorite subgenres—tales of people transported to other worlds by magic, e.g., C. S. Lewis's Na...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Writing and Storytelling

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Kameron Hurley's column in the current LOCUS discusses the difference between stringing together a succession of events and actually tel...
Thursday, February 02, 2017

Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism (or Zoomorphism)

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Sapient animals in fiction and film range all the way from creatures that live and act like their real-life counterparts but communicate wit...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Writing in Dark Times

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Kameron Hurley's essay in the current LOCUS is the most overtly political piece I've ever read in that magazine: There Have Always...