The Secret Life of Dragons

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed there’s been quite a resurgence of interest in dragons. Friends of mine, who engage shamanically with the energy lines  criss-crossing the globe – often and wrongly called ley lines –  tell me that it’s because the dragons that guard them are waking up. They may be right. But…

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The Derivation of Smaug

In my researches as a story archaeologist, I often find myself plundering the same rich, golden seams of ancient Celtic and Norse myths that inspired the imaginations of much greater writers that went before me, notably J.S. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. And as I stand there, trowel in hand, before these gloriously resonant archetypal images…

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