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Why did you call this blog “The Tolkienist”?

here are a number of obvious reasons for this. First of all, any website would do well in chosing a decent name. I could have called it http://www.damn-i-love-middle-earth-so-much-man.com but that wouldn’t be easy...

Tolkien Mailing Competition 2013

Tolkien Mailing Competition goes international

or seven years in a row the Hungarian Tolkien Society (MTT) has organised Tolkien Levelező Verseny, the Tolkien Mailing Competition. School groups from the ages of 10 to 18 were asked questions, divided...

A bridge in the modern Shire

How tall was J.R.R. Tolkien?

his is one of the more mundane questions about the author who brought us “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” and it is one rather easily answered. He gave an interview...