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If the Gods Spoke English: Reimagining Proto-Indo-European Religion
This article explores the parallels found in ancient mythologies across Europe and Asia, tracing these similarities to the Proto-Indo-European religion. It speculatively reconstructs how divine names could have evolved in English from PIE roots through sound changes, creating a lost pantheon of gods like Aff, Brin, and Fercken.
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The Nazgûl’s Message for Frodo in the Shire
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien is full of mystery and tension, and few brief encounters illustrate this better than the moment when a Black Rider comes to the house of the Gaffer in Hobbiton, asking that a message be delivered to Frodo Baggins. The Gaffer refuses, and the Rider departs…
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How did the D&D kids know each other?
In the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons animated series, six kids are transported to a fantasy realm after boarding a rollercoaster. Analyzing their seating arrangement and interactions suggests varying levels of familiarity and highlights how diverse backgrounds forge bonds through shared adventure.
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The Greatest Adventure
There are stories we discover, and then there are stories that discover us. For me, the doorway into Middle-earth did not open through the pages of a book. It flickered to life on the silver screen, ground out frame-by-frame by a library movie projector sometime in the late 1970s. My earliest memory of consuming The…
Christian A. Larsen 