Tolkien Reading 2014 – Event calendar, worldwide
Let’s get ready to read Tolkien Tolkien Reading Day is an annual event, launched by The Tolkien Society in 2003, that takes place on March 25. It has the aim of encouraging the reading...
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Middle-earth Marketing: How to brand your product the Tolkien way
About three months ago Valerio Amaro published a new tumblr by the name of “One Ad to Rule Them All“. The short introduction to this tumblr stated: “I am a student at Miami Ad...
Experience BEOWULF in Anglo-Saxon with Benjamin Bagby
Many years ago I had the great pleasure of witnessing a performance which transported me as closely as possible to Anglo-Saxon times as I could ever have imaginged: Benjamin Bagby sang, spoke, recited and...
Poor Bert? Research finds internet trolls to show patterns of sadism
If 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 your blogroll to include some great Tolkienists
UPDATE March 2019: It’s been five years since I first posted this list of interesting blogs to follow and I am working on an update right now.
On my own behalf: The Tolkienist has now become a Content Gem
For those of you taking an interest in the wider range of topics I am curating via my Twitter handle @Macrobee (@The_Tolkienist is putting an emphasis on all things Tolkienian) you may have seen...
Why a small Netherlands town has streets named after Tolkien
In the last few days the city of Geldrop in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands has received its fair share of attention and that solely based on the fact that there...
Introducing the art of John Cockshaw: A different path to Middle-earth
When I first saw John’s art I was amazed at seeing a new approach in representing the creative worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. His unique mixture of photography and digital retouching seemed to me another...
Meet Richard Taylor and many dwarves at HobbitCon in Germany
Update: Unfortunately, Manu Bennett (Azog) has had to cancel his visit due to work commitments. Please check the website for more information. HobbitCon, a Ring*Con special, took place for the first time in 2013...
Looking back: A Journey through Mirkwood
Nine days in Middle-earth (or NE Lithuania) I am very happy to present you with a report on an unique event which happened last year in Lithuania and particularly so because one of the...