This week, I want to keep unloading my Tolkien-related thoughts, turning from last week’s character study to a look at the way ‘magic’ and spiritual ...

This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a someone different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of ...

This is the final part of our five part (I, II, III, IV) series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last time, we looked at the orc ...

Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for Military History – conferences always leave me a bit ...

Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a week because I am off to a conference this week, the ...

This is the fourth part of our part series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we took the opportunity presented by Adar’s ...

This is the third part of our part series looking at Rings of Power‘s Siege of Eregion from a military history perspective. Last week, we discussed the ...

For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: we’ve talked ...

This is the second part of our part series looking at the Siege of Eregion from the second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we saw how the ...

This is the first part of our part series looking at the Siege of Eregion sequence from the second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power and what we can ...