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
Tag: The Hobbit
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
Exploring The Lord of the Rings
This is a post that will likely appeal to only truly obsessive fans of JRR Tolkien’s fantasy trilogy, The LordContinue Reading
William Morris And JRR Tolkien
JRR Tolkien’s admiration for the historical romances and epic poems of the late 19th century British writer and illustrator, WilliamContinue 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
Imaginary Maps In Fantasy Fiction
Over the course of the summer the Library of Congress in the United States published a wonderful online series called “ImaginaryContinue Reading
No, Ireland Did Not Inspire Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings
I love Ireland. I love the Lord of the Rings and most of the other associated works in J.R.R. Tolkien’sContinue Reading
Hobitit – The Hobbits
I thought I’d post this to An Sionnach Fionn since few people will have heard of it let alone seenContinue Reading
JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit And An Sionnach Fionn
The 2013 issue of Tolkien Studies, an academic journal dedicated to the works of the English Fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien,Continue Reading
The Lord Of The Rings And Ireland
Journalist Ciarán Dunbarr has a quick overview in Nós Mag of the alleged relationship between the English Fantasy author JRRContinue Reading
Christopher Tolkien On The Legacy Of His Father, J.R.R. Tolkien
Christopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R., is the person who has undoubtedly done the most to explain the background and history of his father’s writing toContinue Reading
“An Hobad” – The First Publication In Irish Of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”
J.R.R. Tolkien’s great work of children’s fantasy literature, The Hobbit, is to be published in the Irish language for the first time. From the IrishContinue Reading
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