A Phuulish Fellow

October thus far has been yet more poetry writing, and I can now report that as of a couple of days ago, The Lay of Notich Serpent Tongue is now longer than Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Benjamin Bassett (the gentleman behind the Reading Tolkien Podcast/YouTube channel) has raised an interesting question: what the hell is Tolkien’s Silmarillion, in terms of literary tradition?

New short story out today as part of an anthology called Cozy in the Apocalypse: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKF96XBY The story in question, The End Game, was written back in February 2023, and joins Knight to f6 as one of my designated pieces of chess-re…

Sometimes real-life throws up things so utterly deranged and baffling, we creative writers get jealous.

Last month, I wrote a piece discussing why I thought Tolkien lavished so much attention on The Children of Húrin, relative to his other First Age Great Tales: The Children of Húrin and Its Centrality to the Tolkienian Mythos – A Phuulish Fellow One of the…

Completed reads for September: The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K.

Last year I wrote a four part review of C.S.

No, I haven’t disappeared.

Completed reads for August: Man and His Symbols, edited by Carl Jung Storm Boy, by Colin Thiele An extremely quiet reading month.

A Phuulish Fellow has been fairly quiet these past couple of weeks.

In December 2016, my first physical box of Wise Phuuls turned up on my doorstep as a de facto Christmas present: https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/wise-phuul-hardcopies-squee/ Not quite as special-day-convenient with Old Phuul in August 2026,

I have said this before, but I truly hate Culture War nonsense.

Climate change has done a number on winter in Dunedin.

The afternoon of Saturday, 1st August, 2026.

Completed reads for July: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, by G.K.

The BBC has long been criticised for the short-sighted destruction of its archival programming in the 1960s and 1970s.

Grief is a natural state of mankind.

When last we heard from Rings of Power, it was the licensing of the name Pallando, only found in Unfinished Tales.