Mittilagart Messenger Monthly – #3
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Category: Rants
Did you know that one of the Most Favourite Fake Tolkien Quotes comes from a book the author of which tried to have all of its copies destroyed?
In my blog post of April 24, 2013, Not a Tolkien quote: “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” TThnsdwohatdw, Part 3, I was able to prove that the quote wrongly...
A quick note: Facts that aren’t facts and “The One Ring Explained” – again
As you know one of my pet peeves are wrongly attributed or wrong quotes or statements on Tolkien’s life and works that could be easily misunderstood or are half-truths bordering on lies. Last week...
![[Study of Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf] (c) Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library et al.](https://thetolkienist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/sendak_hobbit-520x347.jpeg)
Why Maurice Sendak did not illustrate J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’
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...
Why J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis would never have been friends in the age of Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp
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...
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. How Discworld shaped my life: Remembering Sir Terry Pratchett (or rather, PTERRY.)
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...
Poor Bert? Research finds internet trolls to show patterns of sadism
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...
Middle-earth Travel Guide [infographic] by CheapFlights full of mistakes
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...
Why did you call this blog “The Tolkienist”?
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...
Middle-earth and Modernity. Part 1: Don’t deal out death in judgment.
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...