All of the material published with thetolkienist.com will always be free for you to peruse as well as some of my work with my crowdfunding site over at steadyhq.com/thetolkienist. Having said that, I...
Tolkien – Die wahre Geschichte der Ringe is a multi-station public broadcasting cooperation between Arte, ZDF, and phoenix. In its about ninety minutes of runtime directors Jean-Christoph Caron (head of documentaries with ZDF/ARTE)...
One of the Germany’s most amazing fandom open air festivals is the Elbenwald Festival, organised by leading European fantasy and science fiction online store and retail chain Elbenwald in Germany. It is run...
Almost four years to the day I published a status update on my Project 200+, going through all the posts in this blog, correcting mistakes, updating links etc. I have just now passed...
Looking back at 2006 I have to say this was quite the memorable year. Not only was Pluto demoted to a dwarf planet, but in Germany the 2006 FIFA World Cup happened. You...
This series has looked at 10 adaptations of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit that preceded Peter Jackson’s trilogy. From ashcan films that were never meant to be seen by the general...
Hobitit, a nine-episode miniseries released on Finnish TV, is probably the most difficult of these media to find—at least through legitimate methods like streaming or DVD. Which is a shame because it’s perhaps...
All of the material published with thetolkienist.com will always be free for you to peruse as well as some of my work with my crowdfunding site over at steadyhq.com/thetolkienist. Having said that, I...
Russia had a particularly passionate interest in The Lord of the Rings even before a full translation of the book became available in the 1990s. There were three adaptions (completed and otherwise) of...
Note: For more on the famous alleged Tolkien quote on the poster for the 1978 Lord of the Rings movie, check out this post. Ralph Bakshi holds a curious place in animation, because...
While Rankin-Bass is best-known to American audiences for their Christmas TV special Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, the company also produced a number of traditional animation films. Fantasy film experts may remember their adaption...
Fans of The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit frequently mention Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 movie or the Rankin-Bass 1977 The Hobbit (both of which will be discussed later in this series). Since...