Tolkien MeMes #5. My first ever talk at Oxonmoot in 2001..
In preparation for my move to Jena I am going through a lot of old papers, some of which have suffered from mould in cellars my landlords did not quite take care of. I...
Category: News
Question: Was Christopher Tolkien truly willing to sell “The Silmarillion” to EA and write new stories set in Middle-earth?
Yesterday an interview was published with thegamer.com, written by Cian Maher, that supposedly drops a bomb in Tolkien fandom that beggars belief: According to executive producer Steve Gray – when EA revealed The Lord...
On Dec 9, 2013, I met Smaug: European premiere of “The Desolation of Smaug”
Seven years ago on this day I met up with friends at the Sony Center close to the Potsdamer Square as we were on a mission: The highly publicised European premiere of The Desolation...
Sublime stage rendition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Leaf by Niggle’ goes crowdfunding: Support Puppet State Theatre and get to watch it!
The consequences of the global pandemic are felt everywhere. As a freelance translator I am well aware that colleagues in the performing arts are very hard hit by the lack of opportunity to actually...
What do US readers turn to in times of COVID-19? The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (and others)
A press release by the NPD Group, a US-American market research company, sums up the information on the e-book market in the United States for the month of April 2020, the first month the...
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish (…)
Please note that many Tolkien-related quotes on the internet are truncated, misappropriated, wrongly attributed and/or taken out of context. The full version of this quote is: ‘It’s the job that’s never started as takes...
Project: 200+ posts to check, correct and update
Right now I have started the process of updating every single blog post with TheTolkienist.com because of changes in plug-ins, outdated and/or changed information etc. I will keep you posted on my progress.
Tolkien MeMes #2. Exhibiting Tolkien at Berlin’s State & Central Library, Nov 2012 – February 2013
In Februar 2012 the then secretary of the German Tolkien Society (GTS) received an email from the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB): Liebe Tolkien-Fans, ich arbeite in der Zentral– und Landesbibliothek Berlin und bin...
The Mountains of Titan belong to Tolkien – and planitiae and labyrinthi to Dune
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) and its Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) are responsible for selecting official names for features on solar system bodies. Luckily for Tolkien fans in 2012 his success...
Revamping my Tolkien and Middle-earth Memorabilia Collection: Ravel’s Bolero and LibraryThing
After another of many moves and the fact that the COVID-19 crisis has changed all of our lives I remembered a wonderful blog post by Tim Spalding, LibraryThing Founder and President, from March 18th,...
