Do it like #Tolkien did — publish the story first, then spend the next two decades building the world

Jackson, Grant, and Teddy are fairly realistic portraits.

Annie? Rauwerda?

“Gandalf! Beyond all Hope You Return to Us in Our Need!” stephencwinter.com/2023/03/25/gan…

Jupiter dementat quos vult perdere…

Owen Barfield taught us how to think about #ChatGPT a hundred years ago idiosophy.com/2023/04/poetic…

“It Was Not in Vain That The Young Hobbits Came With Us.” Gandalf Speaks of The Fall and Redemption of Boromir. stephencwinter.com/2023/04/15/it-…

John Garth Raj #savesoil Fascinating. The rise of AI has me thinking so much about Tolkien and the machine. In case you're interested: linkedin.com/pulse/art-vs-m…

*before chatgpt* me to journalists: hope you know how to code LMAO!!! *after chatgpt* me to journalists: hope you know how to write crisp, clear text that expresses the intricate nuances of a complicated problem LMAO!!!...oh wait...

The Boxing of Cats is a difficult matter, It can't happen only upon Boxing Day. You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter But listen: each cat needs its own box for play.

OK, hear me out: Perelandra theme park. #CSLewis newatlas.com/environment/du…

Février 1943. La Gestapo tue son mari, chef de réseau. A elle de veiller seule, et enceinte, sur leur fille de 3 ans. Mais à d'autres le choix de la sécurité ! Car il y a tous ces autres enfants. Juifs. Qu'elle accepte de cacher. Une centaine lui devront la vie. Yvonne Roques.

New post about that nasty line in “The Battle of the Pelennor Fields” #Tolkien idiosophy.com/2023/05/otheri…

An echo across the centuries, via skunk #OldEnglish idiosophy.com/2023/05/a-nati…

To all the people whose blogs I’ve traditionally tweeted: I’m promoting them on Mastodon now. I don’t yet have good stats on how many viewers that generates. Let me know if you do!

A prediction by Owen Barfield that came more than true idiosophy.com/2023/05/owen-b…

New Post: Introducing C.S. Lewis' Unfinished Teenage Novel "The Quest of Bleheris" apilgriminnarnia.com/2023/05/29/ble… via Brenton Dickieson, PhD #CSLewis

I put a Large Language Model to work on a question that's been bothering people for 70 years. #Tolkien idiosophy.com/2023/06/robots…

Okay I give up: A p-value really is the probability the null is true. We lost this game, statisticians. Every one of you gave it your best, and I will always be proud of you. But the scientists cannot be defeated by conventional means. GG