A map and a calendar: Tolkien Reading Day 2014
A list and a map of Tolkien Reading Day 2014 olkien Reading Day is an annual event, launched by The Tolkien Society in 2003, that takes place on March 25. It has the aim...
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There is no cake like a Middle-earth cake for your wedding
am a happily married man and I know that this is partly due to the wonderful wedding we had. A large part of the success of our wedding day happiness was thanks to our...
Finally: Tolkien’s translation of “Beowulf” to be published on May 22
oday’s news of an upcoming publication came as a surprise to the Tolkien community at large and has been met with great joy: J.R.R. Tolkien’s own translation of Beowulf, the epic he worked on...
How Gandalf returned to England in a Hobbit film promo poster
A wizard’s backdrop: Corby’s Crags, Edlingham castle and a disused railway viaduct his year will see the end of (another) Tolkien-inspired film trilogy and I thought it might be nice to look back on...
Tolkien, Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking exhibition at the British Museum
uch has been made of a civilization lost in the mists of time – the Vikings. When they first made their appearance in 793 AD, plundering Lindisfarne Priory where the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels are...
Tolkien Reading 2014 – Event calendar, worldwide
Let’s get ready to read Tolkien olkien Reading Day is an annual event, launched by The Tolkien Society in 2003, that takes place on March 25. It has the aim of encouraging the reading...
Middle-earth Marketing: How to brand your product the Tolkien way
bout three months ago Valerio Amaro published a new tumblr by the name of “One Ad to Rule Them All“. The short introduction to this tumblr stated: “I am a student at Miami Ad...
Experience BEOWULF in Anglo-Saxon with Benjamin Bagby
any years ago I had the great pleasure of witnessing a performance which transported me as closely as possible to Anglo-Saxon times as I could ever have imagined: Benjamin Bagby sang, spoke, recited and...
Poor Bert? Research finds internet trolls to show patterns of sadism
f you have read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien you will have come across one of the early scenes in the story where Thorin & Co. and Bilbo are caught by three disgusting trolls...
Update your blogroll to include some great Tolkienists
Update August 2021: Seven years since I first posted this list of interesting blogs to follow and I am working on an update right now.