Social media have their most wonderful advantages and you may know that Twitter is probably the one I like most these days. It is rather obvious, though, that they all come with side effects...
The edutainment website Wisecrack recently published a “Text Talk: Writers” piece in which famous friends J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis talk about the publication of ‘Narnia’ exchanging messages on their smartphones – and it...
I must have met Rincewind for the first time in my life in 1987. I had just recently read The Lord of the Rings for the first time which had quite a few immediate...
f you have read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien you will have come across one of the early scenes in the story where Thorin & Co. and Bilbo are caught by three disgusting trolls...
UPDATE: An updated and corrected version of this infographic is now available! he Tolkienist is a project with a long-term plan 🙂 I will not bore with the details but do believe me that...
here are a number of obvious reasons for this. First of all, any website would do well in chosing a decent name. I could have called it http://www.damn-i-love-middle-earth-so-much-man.com but that wouldn’t be easy to...
n recent years I have read many criticisms of Tolkien’s works, some of them more elegant and convincing than others. As with any writer of his time and age, particularly in comparison to the...
have been working on developing a social media campaign in recent months to support my continuing work here at the Tolkienist. Although the number of articles is still small, the scope of what I...
This is the second article in the on-going series Things J.R.R. Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with (TThnsdwohatdw). It should be noted that right now I could possibly...
s you may have noticed from some of my posts I am a bit of a Tolkien fan. I’ve taken an interest in his life and works and modern fantasy literature in general for...
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