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23. January 2018

A sinkhole in Oxford’s Broad Street turns into a Literary Battle

When a sinkhole appeared on Oxford’s Broad Street one could have easily expected someone to make a quick picture to share an Instagram or an easy quip on Twitter but the faculties and libraries...

Fandom

2. January 2018

Meet the Makers: The First Anniversary of the #TolkienTribe on Instagram

When J.R.R. Tolkien’s 125th birthday was about to be celebrated – in 2017 – a bunch of Tolkienists from all over the world came together on Instagram to do just that: share in their...

Amazon Studies announce "LotR" television series

News

13. November 2017

Amazon partnering up to do “The Lord of the Rings” television series

In a press release on Monday, November 13th, 2017 Amazon has confirmed it will be teaming up with “the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema” to produce a multi seasons series...

Events

27. October 2017

Literary Worldbuilding – International Conference at Augsburg University on Tolkien, Jordan, Williams, Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin

I am en route to the 14th Tolkien Seminar by the German Tolkien Society hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Augsburg. Augsburg Uni has been holding lecture series on Tolkien...

BagginsBirthdayDash (c) Myla Minalda and @caskandquill

Events / Fandom

18. September 2017

Celebrating Tolkien on Instagram – it’s Hobbit Week

The ‘Tolkien Tribe’, a group of dedicated bookstagrammers on Instagram, is celebrating Hobbit Week in style – from Sept 17 to Sept 23 we will be hosting giveaways, doing a Lord of the Rings...

Events

22. September 2016

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...

Sheldonian Theatre and entrance to Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

Rants

10. September 2016

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...

Books / Events

31. May 2016

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,...

BBC Culture - Dec 7, 2015 - 100 Greatest British Novels (c) BBC

Books / News

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...

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