Call for Papers: Tolkien @ Kalamazoo 2014
This has just come in via the interwebs. The Tolkien at Kalamazoo group has been approved for 3 paper sessions at the International Medieval Congress held at Kalamazoo, Michigan in May 2014. The...
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How a hobby turns into a Hobbit in Cape Town
I am very happy and very proud to have my first guest post with this, the fifth installment to my on-going series, Things J.R.R. Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to...
The beauty that is this new ‘Hobbit’ edition, illustrated by Jemima Catlin
For me as a long-standing Tolkien fan recent years have brought both pleasure and pain due to the film trilogies and I am very happy when there is something substantially new from the publishers...
Come to Colorado and meet the Grey Havens Group
One of the greatest pleasures of being a Tolkienist is the chance of meeting fellow Tolkiendili from all over the world and writing about it – they can be from Mexico, the Netherlands, the...
Middle-earth and Modernity. Part 1: Don’t deal out death in judgment.
In 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...
F2M2: How Vampire Viktor is a run-down rock star creating coastlines also named Sam
In the second installment of my on-going series “Fun Facts on Middle-earth related Media (F2M2)” I would like to introduce you to the man who inspired me to start it – Bill Nighy. My...
Celebrate Gil-galad, the Slovene Tolkien Society, in style!
The Slovene Tolkien Society has just been spreading the news about this year’s special festivities as they are celebrating their fifteenth anniversary. I would highly suggest you join in because I know the Slovenes...
Visiting Middle-earth in Mexico – meet Tolkien Fans Monterrey
In this third installment in my on-going series on societies, smials and special interest groups on Tolkien all over the world I am very pleased to present ‘my’ first smial, Tolkien Fans Monterrey in...
How Bilbo is Frodo, loves his multipass and fights the Alien
As of today I will start another series on TheTolkienist.com playing on some fun facts readily available in the media and what set me off was Bill Nighy. I’ll turn to him in a...
A new design for the Tolkienist
TheTolkienist.com started as a blog project in September 2012 (and no, it definitely had nothing to do with the birthdays of two hobbits …) and has been starting to develop its own life. I...