How a hobby turns into a Hobbit in Cape Town
am very happy and very proud to have my first guest post with this, the fourth installment to my on-going series, Things J.R.R. Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to...
am very happy and very proud to have my first guest post with this, the fourth installment to my on-going series, Things J.R.R. Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to...
or me as a long-standing Tolkien fan recent years have brought both pleasure and pain due to the film trilogies and I am very happy when there is something substantially new from the...
ne of the greatest pleasures of being a Tolkienist is the chance of meeting fellow Tolkiendili from all over the world and writing about it (the old blog version) – they can be...
n recent years I have read many criticisms of Tolkien’s works, some of them more elegant and convincing than others. As with any writer of his time and age, particularly in comparison to...
n the second installment of my on-going series “Fun Facts on Middle-earth related Media (F2M2)” I would like to introduce you to the man who inspired me to start it – Bill Nighy....
he Slovene Tolkien Society has just been spreading the news about this year’s special festivities as they are celebrating their fifteenth anniversary. I would highly suggest you join in because I know the...
In this third installment in my on-going series on societies, smials and special interest groups on Tolkien all over the world I am very pleased to present ‘my’ first smial, Tolkien Fans Monterrey...
s of today I will start another series on TheTolkienist.com playing on some fun facts readily available in the media and what set me off was Bill Nighy. I’ll turn to him in...
heTolkienist.com started as a blog project in September 2012 (and no, it definitely had nothing to do with the birthdays of two hobbits …) and has been starting to develop its own life....
n May 23rd, 2013 a new book by J.R.R. Tolkien (edited by his son Christopher Tolkien) has been published: The Fall of Arthur. According to the official website at HarperCollins, it is: “The...
n recent weeks I have been scouring the web to have a look at some quotes wrongly attributed to Tolkien. Now, the unfortunate part with any of these undertakings is the fact that...
uite a few Tolkien societies have a Facebook page and/or group to promote their volunteer work on J.R.R. Tolkien and, of course, to have a bit of fun on the ‘interwebs.’ Nowadays, nerds,...