Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
nd 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...
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Support Kickstarter project “BANDERSNATCH Goes Audio!!” today
iana 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...
Back to the Hobbits. Can it be true, Marty?
oday 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...
Meet the Travelling Tolkienist and Tolkienshop at Hobbit Village, Barletta
nother 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...
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
A round-up from Leipzig: Magical moments, revisited
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...
Meet the Tolkienist at HobbitCon: Shades of Grey and the Hobbit profiler!
obbitCon is a tremendously fun and fan convention on the second Peter Jackson film trilogy. There you will meet up with members both of cast and crew and will get the opportunity to...
Call for Papers: 5th International Tolkien Conference in Hungary
t is great to see that J.R.R. Tolkien is finally coming into his own – not only as one of the most popular authors of all times but also as a subject of...
Tolkien Mailing Competition – participate now!
or eight years in a row the Hungarian Tolkien Society (MTT) has organised Tolkien Levelezö Verseny, the Tolkien Mailing Competition. School groups from the ages of 10 to 18 were asked questions, divided...
Call for Papers: Tolkien Studies at PCA/ACA Conference 2015
ext year’s Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association’s joint conference will be held at New Orleans from April 1-4. There will be a dedicated Tolkien Studies stream including sessions, panels and papers...
Join the Eä Tolkien Society for Tolkien Moot X this weekend wherever you are – via Google Hangout
The Eä Tolkien Society is meeting this weekend – August 8-10, 2014 – in Spokane, Washington, USA for “Tolkien-based discussion, role-playing gaming, and other Tolkien-related fun” you can join in yourself – just...
Tolkien Day impressions from Germany
ust some quick shots from the Tolkien Day at Pont (city of Geldern) in Germany. I think we may have set up a new world record on Tolkien-centred events with well over 2,000...