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Mary Steurer | Wednesday, November 1, 2017
The Medieval Institute at Notre Dame will celebrate medieval culture and the work of author J.R.R. Tolkien with a special screening of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, co-sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema. The festival begins Thursday with an introduction to the films by graduate student Maj-Britt Frenze
Jennifer Vosters | Thursday, January 21, 2016
Last semester, my writing professor forbade us from using the word “relatable” to describe each other’s work. I thought it was because the word was overused, the same way I was forbidden to use the word “skillz” in seventh grade (“You’ve got mad skillz!”). But, after thinking about it, it’s really the idea behind it that’s overused. Yet
Erin Thomassen | Wednesday, April 15, 2015
The seagulls in “Finding Nemo” cry, “Mine. Mine. Mine.” They say this every time I watch the movie. It is a curious phenomenon. Gollum from Lord of the Rings has been known to call some ring “my precious.” Now, I have only seen the first 10 minutes of LOTR, so my character analysis of Gollum
Stephen Raab | Thursday, December 4, 2014
One of the highlights of my break, apart from a Black Friday mall-crawl and an initiation into the world of “go,” was the afternoon I spent with my brother watching the director’s cut of “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.” It’s a wonderful film, and while much of J. R. R. Tolkien’s great