Call for Papers: Tolkien @ Kalamazoo 2014
his 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
am very happy and very proud to have my first guest post with this, the fourth 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
or 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...
Come to Colorado and meet the Grey Havens Group
ne of the greatest pleasures of being a Tolkienist is the chance of meeting fellow Tolkiendili from all over the world and writing about it (the old blog version) – they can be...
Middle-earth and Modernity. Part 1: Don’t deal out death in judgment.
n 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...
F2M2: How Vampire Viktor is a run-down rock star creating coastlines also named Sam
n 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....
Celebrate Gil-galad, the Slovene Tolkien Society, in style!
he 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...
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...
How Bilbo is Frodo, loves his multipass and fights the Alien
s 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 new design for the Tolkienist
heTolkienist.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....
“The Fall of Arthur”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s take on the Arthurian legends
n May 23rd, 2013 a new book by J.R.R. Tolkien (edited by his son Christopher Tolkien) has been published: The Fall of Arthur. According to the official website at HarperCollins, it is: “The...
As shown on BrainyQuote.com – More mistaken Tolkien quotes
n recent weeks I have been scouring the web to have a look at some quotes wrongly attributed to Tolkien. Now, the unfortunate part with any of these undertakings is the fact that...