Category: Rants

Pope Francis (c) Vatican.va 14

Now even the Pope is a Tolkien fan?

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...

A bridge in Oxfordshire. (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles 7

75 reasons: Paul Vigor

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 The...

The vision of books and films 23

A commentary on “Concerning Christopher”

n January 7th, 2013, TheOneRing.Net author JPB published an essay titled Concerning Christopher – An Essay on Tolkien’s Son’s Decision to Not Allow Further Cinematic Licensing of His Work. I was amazed at the assumptions,...

Tolkien Reading Day 0

75 reasons: Thomas Honegger

ell, I would actually recommend to listen to a good recording, such as the unabridged reading by Rob Inglis who takes you through Tolkien’s tale within eleven hours (– the same goes for The...

Bench at Wolvercote Cemetery (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles 1

75 reasons: Michael Drout

The Heroic World and the Bourgeois World Each Have Something to Offer n important structural dynamic in The Hobbit is the interaction of the bourgeois world with the heroic.[1] Bilbo, with his pocket handkerchiefs,...

The Randolph, Oxford (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles 1

75 reasons: Dimitra Fimi

hy should one read The Hobbit before watching the film? Because, judging by the trailers and interviews, the Hobbit film adaptation will be presented as a coherent ‘prequel’ to The Lord of the Rings...

The Bird & Baby, Oxford, at night (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles 6

75 reasons: Douglas A. Anderson

n my view, when a work exists in a form that has been popular enough to precipitate a film being made of it, I’ve usually tried to experience the original before the adaptation. This...

Bridge of Sighs, Oxford. (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles 0

75 reasons: Jonathan Fruoco

“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.” This sentence is without any doubt the best reason why one should read The Hobbit, and the simple fact of quoting these magical words...