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Category: The Lord of the Rings

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Tolkien’s Dragons: Guardians of Greed and Symbols of Sin

By Martine Mussies | January 22, 2025April 2, 2025 by Martine Mussies

This short article was originally published in Dutch in Lembas, the magazine of the Tolkien society Unquendor, accompanied by one of my own dragon illustrations.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2002)

By Martine Mussies | September 1, 2022July 7, 2025 by Martine Mussies

I revisited The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2002) after two decades for a thorough review in the Dutch Tolkien publication Lembas.

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Meoi, Miog, Miaug & Miaulin!

By Martine Mussies | December 3, 2021April 4, 2022 by Martine Mussies

At Troy University’s “Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature” (11-12 June 2021), I presented some of my ideas on cats in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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International Translation Day

By Martine Mussies | September 30, 2018October 8, 2020 by Martine Mussies

Every year on September 30, it is the feast of St. Jerome (347–420), a priest, confessor, theologian, historian and: Bible translator. He is even considered to be the first to have translated the Bible from…

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