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10. December 2015

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 (WB, UP, Hobbiton (NZ), T.M. Eckrich, DTG

Events / Fun stuff

21. October 2015

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...

News

6. September 2015

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 🙂

Events

3. September 2015

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: Art inspired by the works of JRR Tolkien’, curated by John Cockshaw

Art / Events

30. August 2015

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-Bülles

David Whitehouse and the doubledecker bus

Books / Events

15. March 2015

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...

Discworld: Scheibenwelt. (c) Sara Aubron

Rants

13. March 2015

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...

The 'Hobbit Hole' by hobo artist Dan Price (c)

News

31. January 2015

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobo artist

“After 15 years of living in tiny shelters, itinerant artist Dan Price settled into an 80 square foot underground room with one skylight and one small door.” The former photojournalist, surfer, biker and self-proclaimed...

Beowulf. Translation & Commentary. J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien. (c) HarperCollins

Books

27. January 2015

Guest post: My personal 2014 top ten list of Tolkien publications

I have asked German Tolkien collector Tobias Wolf which books published in 2014 are among his favourites and he was kind enough to send me his top ten books he considers a must for...

Leseprobe in der Nautilus (c) Abenteuermedienverlag

News

24. January 2015

On my own behalf: The Tolkienist named jury member with two German fantasy awards

January has been starting off pretty well for me – I have been invited to be part of the jury for the German fantasy award Seraph, publicly presented at the Leipzig Book Fair, and...

Author: TheTolkienist

Why “The Lord of the Rings” coming in at no. 26 with the latest BBC Culture poll is a good thing

Back to the Hobbits. Can it be true, Marty?

Impressions from Hobbit Village 2015 in Barletta, Italy

Meet the Travelling Tolkienist and Tolkienshop at Hobbit Village, Barletta

Evil in the Shining Light: Tolkien exhibition in Sheffield, Sept 2-26, 2015

A round-up from Leipzig: Magical moments, revisited

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. How Discworld shaped my life: Remembering Sir Terry Pratchett (or rather, PTERRY.)

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobo artist

Guest post: My personal 2014 top ten list of Tolkien publications

On my own behalf: The Tolkienist named jury member with two German fantasy awards

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