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...
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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,...
Tween from Tolkien: 15 words you never knew came from literature
ords and sayings often come from literature but in the course of time we readers tend to forget that. The UK literature website, Lovereading.co.uk, has made a special effort in listing fifteen such...
Meet the Tolkienist at HobbitCon: Shades of Grey and the Hobbit profiler!
obbitCon is a tremendously fun and fan convention on the second Peter Jackson film trilogy. There you will meet up with members both of cast and crew and will get the opportunity to...
Short Series: Tolkien Minimalist Posters. Meet the Artist: Patrick Connan
his is the first installment in another short series with the Tolkienist, this time on minimalist posters/ illustrations inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. I am very happy to welcome an amazingly talented French...
Listen to rare Tolkien recording: At the Tobacconist’s – and help the British Library save its audio collection
ave our Sounds‘” is the British Library’s programme to preserve the nation’s sound heritage.” With this statement, the British Library is addressing one of the most pressing conservatory issues of our times –...
How Google screws with fantasy authors: Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Martin and more – revisited
oogle’s ‘Autocomplete’ function is meant to be a useful tool when searching for anything on the internet. The idea is to suggest search combinations most relevant to what you are looking for, in...