The Tales That Really Matter

Exploring Tolkien’s world through art.

A Catholic deacon, film critic, cartooning enthusiast, and father of 7 writes too much about everything that interests him

Learning I can’t well account for what genre these stories are … anyhow, here are my essays and stories. Fairies & violence & weirdness. Enjoy!

Film writing from Steven D. Greydanus, a Catholic deacon and film critic who also Substacks at greydanus.substack.com

democracy and dictatorship, Russia and Ukraine, America and Europe, local and global, past and present