Back to the Hobbits. Can it be true, Marty?
oday is a very special day for many of us out there. Today, the past, the present, and the future may come together in an explosion of awesomeness. Luckily enough, the German Tolkien...
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Impressions from Hobbit Village 2015 in Barletta, Italy
am very glad to report a couple of pictures and videos on an amazing event in a beautiful town and its castle, Barletta. Enjoy 🙂
Meet the Travelling Tolkienist and Tolkienshop at Hobbit Village, Barletta
nother amazing Tolkien-related is coming up this weekend and this time it is in beautiful Barletta in Italy. Both myself and René van Rossenberg, the owner of the Tolkienshop, have been invited as...
Evil in the Shining Light: Tolkien exhibition in Sheffield, Sept 2-26, 2015
An Tolkien exhibition at Sheffield’s Bank Street Arts showcases art and texts from ten creative minds including the Tolkienist, Marcel Aubron-Bülles
Part 3: Music from Middle-earth
(Continued from part 1 & 2. This is the final part.) The modern age FRONT OF WAR IN THE NORTH So far we have discussed only the beginnings, and most of these works...
A round-up from Leipzig: Magical moments, revisited
am on my way home to Berlin from this year’s book fair in Leipzig and boy, have those three days been three days to remember. I’ll try to make it as short as...
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. How Discworld shaped my life: Remembering Sir Terry Pratchett (or rather, PTERRY.)
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...
Part 2: Music from Middle-earth
eroen Bakker takes us on a tour through Music inspired by Middle-earth. This is the second part of the three part series.
Part 1: Music from Middle-earth
high-speed journey through the musical world of JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobo artist
fter 15 years of living in tiny shelters, itinerant artist Dan Price settled into an 80 square foot underground room with one skylight and one small door.” The former photojournalist, surfer, biker and...
Guest post: My personal 2014 top ten list of Tolkien publications
have asked German Tolkien collector Tobias Wolf which books published in 2014 are among his favourites and he was kind enough to send me his top ten books he considers a must for...
On my own behalf: The Tolkienist named jury member with two German fantasy awards
anuary has been starting off pretty well for me – I have been invited to be part of the jury for the German fantasy award Seraph, publicly presented at the Leipzig Book Fair,...