If there is one thing a lot of people (seem to) know about Tolkien it is his love of trees, represented possibly most famously in his creation of the Ents in The Lord...
All of the material published with thetolkienist.com will always be free for you to peruse as well as some of my work with my crowdfunding site over at steadyhq.com/thetolkienist. Having said that, I...
Another edition of my short series on Tolkien Travel posters. I am very happy to introduce you to Danielle Sylvan.
“Discover the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.” The blurb at the back...
Boromir’s Bloggish Bebotherments is an on-going series of top tier whining by me, myself, and I why the internet is a shit place to find relevant information, how curating a Tolkienian newsletter is...
I have visited Oxford dozens of times by and due to the fact that I cannot spend gazillions of euros on my choice of accomodation I have seen quite a few places that...
It has been ten years to the day that I started the Tolkien Travel Poster series and now I am returning to this with an amazing artist – Beverly Arce.
A charming Tolkien-related chestnut has been making its round again and it is time to give you a few details on Antidpressants or Tolkien.
I am again working through all of my blog posts here at thetolkienist.com as well as all the posts over at Steady. One of the many little details I noticed is that many...
At the time of writing you have the opportunity of not only getting a very good rye whisky but a piece of Tolkien’s favourite tree, the Pinus Nigra at the Oxford Botanical Garden...
Some of you may remember that I have written extensively on the fate of Tolkien’s favourite tree. And in 2020 I received confirmation on some of the things that were supposed to happen...
It truly blows my mind when I realised that there is, indeed, one football club mentioned in the Silmarillion and that I coincidentally moved to the very city which is the home to...