75 reasons: Guglielmo Spirito
n the entrance hallway of that sumptuous home there was an enormous mirror, very old; acquired at least eighty years ago. A strikingly beautiful boy, a tailor’s assistant, (on Sunday afternoon, an amateur...
Category: Books
75 reasons: Colin Duriez
75 shades of Hobbit hitherto unknown species was introduced into the world in 1937, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s opening sentence of 10 words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” A movie’s...
75 reasons: Tom Shippey
BILBO’S HEROIC PROGRESS hen I used to teach a course on Tolkien, one of the essay questions which my students answered consistently well was the one which asked them how, in The Hobbit, Bilbo...
75 reasons: Chris Seeman
nlike the soon-to-be-released Peter Jackson films, Tolkien’s Hobbit is NOT a “prequel” to The Lord of the Rings. By this I mean that Tolkien did not write it to be an introduction to something...
75 reasons: Verlyn Flieger
would like people to read The Hobbit before viewing the forthcoming film presentations by Peter Jackson for several reasons. If they have already read The Hobbit I would like them read it again to...
75 reasons: Brian Sibley
reasons? Well… a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins; a wizard named Gandalf; pipes; a door; a sign; twelve dwarves named Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur and Thorin; an unexpected...
“The Hobbit: What has made the book such an enduring success?”
n a great article published on Sept 20th, 2012 Professor Thomas Shippey discusses in the Telegraph why The Hobbit is such a well-loved book. If you ask yourself this question or are just generally...
75 reasons why you should read “The Hobbit” before watching the films
tarting September 22nd, 2012 thetolkienist.com will host a series of articles from experts, artists and fans why you should read J.R.R. Tolkien’s children’s book classic, The Hobbit, before watching the upcoming film trilogy by...
Tolkien: The Forest & the City. Tolkien Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Sept 21-22, 2012
General information of the Trinity College Tolkien Conference of Sept 21-22, 2012
