by Dan Blatt | Feb 29, 2024 | Archetypes, Mythology, Tolkien
About the time Disney released its live-action Cinderella I became fascinated with the archetype of the fairy godmother. Soon she joined the “pantheon”, if you will, of my most beloved Disney characters. I even bought a Funko Pop! Disney Fairy Godmother and placed...
by Dan Blatt | Nov 8, 2018 | Mythology
Every now and again, someone gives you the gift of a word. It can be a friend saying something in conversation, a bit of dialogue in a movie, or even the title of a book. And when you find the meaning behind that word, in the context of the conversation, the story of...
by Dan Blatt | Oct 30, 2018 | Mythology, Reviews
A J.R.R. Tolkien fan since my earliest adolescence, I have only in the past year begun to read the notebooks his son Christopher published in the 1980s and ‘90s as the twelve-volume History of Middle-earth. They do not draw us into the great master’s enchanted realm...
