Douglas Kane before 2009
Douglas Charles Kane (born 1963), known online as "Voronwe_the_Faithful", is a civil rights attorney in Santa Cruz, California, and fan of J.R.R. Tolkien who helped established the discussion forum halloffire.net some time before 2007. In 2009, he authored Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion.
Kane wrote the essay "Reconstructing Arda: of Feanor and the Unchaining of Melkor" for the Mythopoeic Society's journal Mythlore in 2008, and "Law and Arda" for the ninth annual publication of Tolkien Studies in 2012. For Tolkien Studies' eighteenth volume in 2021, he wrote "Túrin the Hapless: Tolkien and the sanctification of suffering", concerning Túrin Turambar.
He has written seven reviews of both primary and secondary Tolkien-literature, such as the official works The Nature of Middle-earth and The Fall of Númenor, published online by Bradford Lee Eden's Journal of Tolkien Research.[1]
Kane teaches West African percussion music as a hobby.[2]
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- ↑ Contributions to JTR on ValpoScholar
- ↑ Interview by Pieter Collier on September 3rd 2009 (transcript)