“Lord of the Rings” among ’50 books that will change your life’
orld Book Day is a “worldwide celebration of books and reading”, happening in over 100 countries all across the globe, started in 1995 by UNESCO. World Book Day Fest in the UK and...
orld Book Day is a “worldwide celebration of books and reading”, happening in over 100 countries all across the globe, started in 1995 by UNESCO. World Book Day Fest in the UK and...
t is one of those rare moments when searching the web for more misattributed quotes on J.R.R. Tolkien when you find one blog post to be gone. [Hilariously, the link now directly leads...
or eight years in a row the Hungarian Tolkien Society (MTT) has organised Tolkien Levelezö Verseny, the Tolkien Mailing Competition. School groups from the ages of 10 to 18 were asked questions, divided...
R.R. Tolkien helped organise and participated in the sexcentenary celebrations of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1914. Now, exactly one hundred years later, the college has reached the 700 years mark and has recently...
his is one of the posts that has become invalid in the course of time. First published in 2014 when my main account used to be the Macrobee – deleted in 2018 –...
ext year’s Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association’s joint conference will be held at New Orleans from April 1-4. There will be a dedicated Tolkien Studies stream including sessions, panels and papers...
A recent meme-like status has appeared with Facebook asking you and your friends to name “10 books that have stayed with us.” Now, you may like such questions or not but if something...
The Eä Tolkien Society is meeting this weekend – August 8-10, 2014 – in Spokane, Washington, USA for “Tolkien-based discussion, role-playing gaming, and other Tolkien-related fun” you can join in yourself – just...
In a recent interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show New York actor Vin Diesel (again) proved his geek street cred. It has been known for quite a few years that the...
ad news for visitors of Oxford’s Botanic Garden and many Tolkien fans: J.R.R. Tolkien’s favourite tree, a black pine (pinus nigra), suffered severe damage on July 26, 2014, and needed to be removed....
uly 22, 2014 sees the release of digitally remastered versions of Rankin/Bass Productions’ animated television specials “The Hobbit” and “The Return of the King”. Time to reevaluate how films brought Tolkien’s worlds to...
nd yet another installment in my ongoing series Things J.R.R. Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with thanks to the powerful combination of Jacksonverse and Goodreads. Now, this...