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    I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron
    by Carlos Greaves
  • March 5, 2025
    Helm’s Deep Shall Henceforth Be Known as Sauron’s Deep. No, Not That Sauron
    by Nathan Cowley
  • October 15, 2024
    I’m an Undecided Hobbit, Torn Between a Dark Lord Who Promises an Age of Chaos and an Elf Queen Whom I Just Wish I Knew More About
    by Sam Woods
  • June 28, 2024
    Gandalf Must Step Aside and Let a Younger Hero Save Us from Sauron Lest We Lose this Middle-earth
    by Geoffrey Line
  • April 12, 2024
    Arizona Law from 1864, Law from Middle-earth, or Anti-Crime Code of Mega-City One from Judge Dredd?
    by Miles Kahn
  • July 21, 2023
    Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Oliphaunts”
    by Jenny Wise and Sam Woods
  • March 29, 2023
    The White Hand of Saruman Will Be Given Only to Uruk-hai Who Subscribe to SaruBlue
    by Ryan Kushner
  • August 29, 2022
    I’m Frodo Baggins and I Think Destroying the One Ring Wouldn’t Be Fair to Those It Already Ruined
    by Connor Relyea
  • September 30, 2021
    Rick Steves Casually Reviews Dangerous Fantasy Locations
    by Kurt Zemaitaitis
  • June 16, 2021
    James Joyce’s The Hobbit
    by Sam Woods
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