A look back at the Elbenwald Festival
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...
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Project 200+ – an update after four years…
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...
How my love for Tolkien helped me see a friend again – after eighteen years
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...
Tolkien Before Jackson Part 7: What Changed with Peter Jackson?
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...
Tolkien Before Jackson Part 6: The Hobbits (1993, directed by Timo Torikka)
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...
Posts published with Steady for the months of February – April, 2024
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 Before Jackson Part 5: The Russian Adaptations
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...
Tolkien Before Jackson Part 4: The Lord of the Rings (1978, Directed by Ralph Bakshi)
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...
Tolkien Before Jackson Part 3: The Rankin-Bass Adaptations
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...
Tolkien Before Jackson Part 2: Lord of the Rings (1971, directed by Bo Hansson)
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...
Tolkien Before Jackson Part 1: Intro and The Hobbit (1966)
The release of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy changed how viewers and critics see fantasy films, leading many to unearth prior adaptations of Tolkien to see how they compare. In the...
Not a Tolkien quote: “Every tree has its enemy, few have an advocate. In all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies.”
If there is one thing a lot of people (seem to) know about Tolkien it is his love of trees, represented possibly most famously in his creation of the Ents in The Lord...
