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Tolkien Reading Day

Tolkien Reading Day

t is a first and promising anniversary – Tolkien Reading Day is now ten years old and is going from strength to strength. All over the world people are reading Tolkien’s works, alone...

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The Tolkienist’s Library: Update

have added some titles to my library list at LibraryThing. When I started this I did not quite realise I might end up adding hundreds of titles but there you are 🙂 So...

Libraries are all you need (c) Marcel R. Aubron-Bülles

The Tolkienist’s Library

fter much deliberation I have started using LibraryThing to finally list up my own collection on primary and secondary materials on J.R.R. Tolkien, both his life and works. I will keep adding material...

About the Inklings in the Eagle & Child (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles

75 reasons: David Bratman

early a dozen years ago, a few months before Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring hit the big screen, a wise comment about it was made … in a web comic. Scott Kurtz’s...

Tolkien Reading Day

Happy 75th Birthday, Hobbit

n September 21st, 1937, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published and became an instant classic. Happy Birthday!

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Picture by Marcel Aubron-Bülles

The Tolkienist is coming online …

hank you all very much for your patience. I have been horribly busy in the last couple of weeks, returning from Return of the Ring (I will be writing a review of this...