Was JRR Tolkien, The Author Of The Lord Of The Rings, A Racist?
Was the British fantasy author JRR Tolkien a racist? That is the issue being debated in the wake of lastContinue Reading
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JRR Tolkien And Arthur Conan Doyle: The Deaths Of Gandalf The Grey And Sherlock Holmes
A few weeks ago I received a rather beautiful blu-ray boxset from Japan of the 1984-94 adaptation of the SherlockContinue Reading
Lindsay Ellis On The Hobbit Trilogy Of Movies, More Jackson Than Tolkien
Here is a nice series of retrospective, if occasionally discursive, videos from the geek pop-culture commentator Lindsay Ellis examining theContinue Reading
The Fall Of Gondolin, JRR Tolkien
Despite my fascination with JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth canon, or “legendarium”, I am fairly critical of the well-known “barrel scraping” whichContinue Reading
Beren And Lúthien, JRR And Edith Tolkien
The complex, never quite complete tales of the couple, Beren and Lúthien, date to 1917 and the earliest writing ofContinue Reading
Destroyer Of Cities, Homer, JRR Tolkien And George RR Martin
When I was fifteen or sixteen I read a relatively well-known book called In Search of the Trojan War by the British historianContinue Reading
Tom Shippey Discusses JRR Tolkien’s Beowulf Translation In Three Video Lectures
JRR Tolkien began to write a tentative prose edition of the Medieval epic poem, Beowulf, while teaching at the University of Leeds inContinue Reading
