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 | Feb 29, 2024 | Storytelling, Tolkien
In order to improve my writing, I copied out first The Return of the King, then the first two books of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. That task completed last month, I went back again to the beginning and started copying out The Hobbit. No sooner had I turned to...
by Dan Blatt | Jan 4, 2024 | Tolkien
As I have been copying The Lord of the Rings out by hand to improve my own writing, I better appreciate the genius of its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, the man I call the master. And, when, yesterday on the 132nd anniversary of the master’s birth, I copied out the...
