It truly blows my mind when I realised that there is, indeed, one football club mentioned in the Silmarillion and that I coincidentally moved to the very city which is the home to it....
Quite some time ago I crossed the amazing 5,000 followers line on Twitter and I have been wondering what to do as a small thank you for all you lovelies out there – et...
It has been way too long: Seven years ago I did a list of events on the Tolkien Reading Day 2014 so people could have a quick look at what was happening and see...
Almost six years ago I shared a post with this blog titled Help me find great Tolkienists on Twitter. Today it feels a bit like the “early days social media”; I had joined on...
Update: April 10, 2022 As part of my Unpacking a mystery box series I have found the actual ticket of the event mentioned in the text below and added it as the top photo....
Every year fans the world over make a special effort to celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien’s life and works during Hobbit Week or Tolkien Week, the week including the weekend of September 22, Bilbo and Frodo’s...
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...
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...
All over the world fans of J.R.R. Tolkien meet up, have a chat, discuss and interact on all things Middle-earth. In this installment of my fandom series we will visit New York City and...
For 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 into...
