How Bilbo is Frodo, loves his multipass and fights the Alien
s of today I will start another series on TheTolkienist.com playing on some fun facts readily available in the media and what set me off was Bill Nighy. I’ll turn to him in...
Category: Films
Yes, Spock is singing the ballad of ‘Bilbo Baggins.’ And beating Young Spock. In an Audi ad.
t may look like a rather unusual post to the Tolkienist but I am a fan of many fandoms (as any proper nerd/ geek/ etc. would be) and I have always had a...
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Walking Through Wilderland: An English archaeological landscape investigation hy read JRR Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, before watching Peter Jackson’s film? Well, speaking as an English historian and post-medieval archaeological landscape investigator, I consider...
Why “The Hobbit” is more than just the sum of its parts. A film review – spoiler alert.
his is a three-part article on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey or rather: a collection of random first impressions. The first part is a more general comment on the film as a literary...
“The Lord of the Gaps”: How Tolkien’s mastery of a literary technique would make ten Hobbit films possible – and they still wouldn’t be enough
uch has been made of Peter Jackson’s decision to make three instead of two Hobbit films (a production company like Warner Bros which has crossed the billion-dollar-mark for eleven consecutive years will have...
Why the ‘film purists’ and the ‘book purists’ will never understand each other – on how (not) to appreciate Peter Jackson’s work
Tolkien’s books belong to the most popular writings ever to be published and for decades they have had a loyal following all other the world. These numbers understandably swelled with Peter Jackson’s film...
