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August Wrap-Up + A Quirk!

August 27, 2021

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Samwise Gamgee, the Chestertonian Everyman, and Mysticism

August 20, 2021

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Tag: The Mystery Blogger Award

August 13, 2021

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Review: "The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene

August 06, 2021

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I Am Back!

August 02, 2021

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Samantha: My name is Sam (short for Samantha or Samwise Gamgee, depending on who you ask. Either or neither may be my real-life name.) and I’m a book-loving Catholic college student.

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The Silmaril Awards 2023: Nominations Open!

Hello, y'all! I am THRILLED to be with you on a Monday in September, because you know what that means? TIME FOR THE SILMARILS! *cue the confetti* I am so honored to be able to host a Silmaril Award again this year! They are always an absolute blast, and definitely spice up my September! (Or at least, last year's Silmarils did. Hosting the Strangest Characters in my dorm room was a Whole Thing . I'm hoping this year's characters will be sliiiiiiightly better behaved, but I guess we'll find out.) In case you've never heard of these illustrious awards, and are wondering what the heck Samantha is freaking out about, the Silmaril awards are the equivalent of the Tonys or Oscars or Golden Globes...but for fantasy characters. Awarded by Tolkien's characters in multiple fantabulous awards ceremonies at the end of the month of September, each Silmaril honors a character in one of eleven categories. The best part? Y'all are the ones who get to nominate and vote

Voyage Review (ft. Sam screaming about The Longest Johns)

yes, that is me with The Longest Johns. yes, I'm still freaking out about it. An' it's my apologies to ye, but ye still don' get to hear about Rome. (Wait! Don't leave! Today's post is still going to be fun! Maybe I shouldn't have started like that...) But! Rome next week I promise! Once I've not been travelling quite so much. Three weeks of travel is a lot. And lemme tell you, it's a lot to write blog posts in advance for, too, good grief. So don't give me any guff. So instead of Rome, and because when I was writing this post my brain was fried (weeks of school and only a few hours before one has to leave for London and from there to Rome will do that to you) I'm going to talk to you about the Best (and Last) Thing I Did Before I Left. Which was... (drumroll please) I WENT TO SEE THE LONGEST JOHNS IN CONCERT! I know I haven't talked a whole lot on here about my love for TLJ (which, for the record, was ve

Oxford Ephemera (ft. authorial anecdotes)

“That sweet city with her dreaming spires/ She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.” – Matthew Arnold "The traffic lights winked at the Holywell Corner: Yes; No; Wait. Cat Street was crossed and the shadows of New College walls had swalled them up before she spoke." -- Gaudy Night Hello my peeps! Happy Easter! He is Risen! I just got back from Rome, which I will absolutely be telling you about soon but not yet because I'm currently travelling England with my family and will be for the next week or so, so you're going to have to get written-in-advance Sam this week and next week. #sorrynotsorry. So, because I'm not in a position to write about Rome, we're gonna talk more about Oxford! One of the coolest things about Oxford (besides all of the other cool things about Oxford, which is pretty much everything because Oxford y'all ) is how connected it is with Alls The Authors. Of course, you have the big three: Tolkien (as

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