The Wheel and Axle

The Lord of the Rings trilogy of films will always be one of my favorite franchises of all time, if not my favorite. The books, of course, are even more fantastic.

I always felt that The Two Towers was robbed of that year’s best picture Oscar, and although the academy made up for it the following year with The Return of the King, The Two Towers also deserved the accolade more than Chicago.

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Happy 49th birthday to the Shield-Maiden of Rohan who showed us that it takes a woman to vanquish a Nazgul that no man could ever destroy. Miranda “Eowyn” Otto will always be the biggest badass of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy (yes, Legolas my darling dearest, you come in a very close second).

Sixty-two years ago today, J.R.R. Tolkien changed the landscape of fantasy fiction when The Fellowship of the Ring was published. The historical relevance and cultural impact of this book cannot be overstated, as it not only paved the way for a new generation of fantasy writers and readers but it also continues to influence various forms of media as well as the social consciousness of the general public to this very day.

Originally, The Lord of the Rings was supposed to have been one long novel sub-divided into six sections he called “books,” but the publisher instead chose to divide it into three separate novels that formed the trilogy we now know and love.

Some form of Elvish

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