Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
22nd September is a very special day for Tolkien fans all over the world as it is the birthday of two very special hobbits – Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. On this day the world...
Author: TheTolkienist
Why J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis would never have been friends in the age of Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp
The edutainment website Wisecrack recently published a “Text Talk: Writers” piece in which famous friends J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis talk about the publication of ‘Narnia’ exchanging messages on their smartphones – and it...
Support Kickstarter project “BANDERSNATCH Goes Audio!!” today
Diana Pavlac Glyer has taken interest in one particularly fascinating field of research with the Inklings, that is the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams and friends – their creativity, their friendship,...
Why “The Lord of the Rings” coming in at no. 26 with the latest BBC Culture poll is a good thing
Polls on any topic are useful for any medium to address an audience which may take an interest in said topic – a commonplace one would expect from any website, magazine or a cultural...
Back to the Hobbits. Can it be true, Marty?
Today is a very special day for many of us out there. Today, the past, the present, and the future may come together in an explosion of awesomeness. Luckily enough, the German Tolkien Society...
Impressions from Hobbit Village 2015 in Barletta, Italy
I am very glad to report a couple of pictures and videos on an amazing event in a beautiful town and its castle, Barletta. Enjoy đ
Meet the Travelling Tolkienist and Tolkienshop at Hobbit Village, Barletta
Another amazing Tolkien-related is coming up this weekend and this time it is in beautiful Barletta in Italy. Both myself and René van Rossenberg, the owner of the Tolkienshop, have been invited as guest...
Evil in the Shining Light: Tolkien exhibition in Sheffield, Sept 2-26, 2015
An Tolkien exhibition at Sheffield’s Bank Street Arts showcases art and texts from ten creative minds including the Tolkienist, Marcel Aubron-BĂŒlles
A round-up from Leipzig: Magical moments, revisited
I am on my way home to Berlin from this year’s book fair in Leipzig and boy, have those three days been three days to remember. I’ll try to make it as short as...
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. How Discworld shaped my life: Remembering Sir Terry Pratchett (or rather, PTERRY.)
I must have met Rincewind for the first time in my life in 1987. I had just recently read The Lord of the Rings for the first time which had quite a few immediate...