It's taken me far too long to blog about The Return of the King film. Part of that, I truly believe, was trepidation about how the film...

The Return of the King surprised me. My recollection of the LOTR movies was that they got sequentially worse. (Perhaps that's because I...

A re-watch of the the Two Towers film basically met my expectations -- an okay film overall but too long. It's certainly not as engaging...

One more for the road. It almost feels strange to at long last write my final post here--about the film version of Return of the King-- ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that life is a journey, not a destination. In the spirit of Emerson, I've used this opportunity to peek at...

The “Scouring of the Shire” is a story within a story—a self-contained dramatic arc that probably could be read independently, understood, a...

Wherein herein lies a transitional chapter, wherein herein it only deserves a transitional analysis. Homeward Bound (the chapter) could be...