Join the Tolkien Birthday Toast for 2013
Tolkien was born January, 3rd, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Tolkien fans from all over the world gather today to raise a glass to the man who brought us all together – “The...
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75 reasons: Thomas Honegger
ell, I would actually recommend to listen to a good recording, such as the unabridged reading by Rob Inglis who takes you through Tolkien’s tale within eleven hours (– the same goes for...
Today a not so serious post. A picturesque comment on modern day’s Thorin Oakenshield.
hile watching The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey I could not help but think of two other modern film and tv series characters of influence and importance – and their beards. Although I appreciate...
Why “The Hobbit” is more than just the sum of its parts. A film review – spoiler alert.
his is a three-part article on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey or rather: a collection of random first impressions. The first part is a more general comment on the film as a literary...
75 reasons: Michael Drout
The Heroic World and the Bourgeois World Each Have Something to Offer n important structural dynamic in The Hobbit is the interaction of the bourgeois world with the heroic.[1] Bilbo, with his pocket...
75 reasons: Dimitra Fimi
hy should one read The Hobbit before watching the film? Because, judging by the trailers and interviews, the Hobbit film adaptation will be presented as a coherent ‘prequel’ to The Lord of the...
75 reasons: Douglas A. Anderson
n my view, when a work exists in a form that has been popular enough to precipitate a film being made of it, I’ve usually tried to experience the original before the adaptation....
75 reasons: Jonathan Fruoco
“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.” This sentence is without any doubt the best reason why one should read The Hobbit, and the simple fact of quoting these magical...
75 reasons: Guglielmo Spirito
n the entrance hallway of that sumptuous home there was an enormous mirror, very old; acquired at least eighty years ago. A strikingly beautiful boy, a tailor’s assistant, (on Sunday afternoon, an...
Starting today: Presenting Tolkiendili from all over the world
am very glad to start another category on my website, this time a number of presentations from societies, smials and special interest groups from all over the world (and maybe a number of...
The Lithuanian Tolkien Society
Tolkien fandom in Lithuania and Tolkien Lietuva he works of J.R.R.Tolkien first came to Lithuania in 1985, the year when The Hobbit was published in Lithuanian. To be sure, ‘samizdat’ translations such as...
75 reasons: Colin Duriez
75 shades of Hobbit hitherto unknown species was introduced into the world in 1937, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s opening sentence of 10 words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” A...