April Update

    Hey all!  Just wanted to give an update on the lack of new reviews for the last week or two.  Well, I've have dubbed this month, the month of April, Tolkein Month.  I will be reading as many of the Tolkien books, both those considering middle-earth and his other works, as I can.  I started with The Hobbit, and am now working on The Lord of the Rings.  I also plan on reading The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, and J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, an analytical look at the middle-earth books and how they were written.  When I have completed these books I'll be writing one large Middle-Earth review.
   I have to say re-reading these books has once again had the effect of testing the limits of my imagination and rekindled childhood wonders.
    The review should be up in another one or two weeks and should be considerably longer than previous reviews.  Depending on how this goes for me I may be doing more cluster reviews like this in the future.

P.S.- For this interested in learning more about Tolkien's works in an academic way I recommend visiting Tolkien Professor, the website of Corey Olsen, a tenured English Professor at Washington College on which he has posted many podcasts of his classes on nearly every Tolkien work and other works of classical Faerie stories.