Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth. How it all started
In this short blog post I would love to show you what the fans were told beforehand of Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth: the trailers, the sneak peeks and what the media had to say...
In this short blog post I would love to show you what the fans were told beforehand of Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth: the trailers, the sneak peeks and what the media had to say...
One of the most exciting exhibitions ever to have taken place on J.R.R. Tolkien’s life and works is coming to a close. Bodleian Libraries’ TOLKIEN: MAKER OF MIDDLE-EARTH will end next weekend on Oct...
Every year fans the world over make a special effort to celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien’s life and works during Hobbit Week or Tolkien Week, the week including the weekend of September 22, Bilbo and Frodo’s...
In an unprecedented move the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien who is the executor of his father’s literary heritage, has announced today that among the many thousands of manuscript pages J.R.R. Tolkien left...
The ‘Tolkien Tribe’, a group of dedicated bookstagrammers on Instagram, is celebrating Hobbit Week in style – from Sept 17 to Sept 23 we will be hosting giveaways, doing a Lord of the Rings...
The edutainment website Wisecrack recently published a “Text Talk: Writers” piece in which famous friends J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis talk about the publication of ‘Narnia’ exchanging messages on their smartphones – and it...
I have asked German Tolkien collector Tobias Wolf which books published in 2014 are among his favourites and he was kind enough to send me his top ten books he considers a must for...
“‘Save our Sounds‘“ is the British Library’s programme to preserve the nation’s sound heritage.” With this statement, the British Library is addressing one of the most pressing conservatory issues of our times – how...
Google’s ‘Autocomplete’ function is meant to be a useful tool when searching for anything on the internet. The idea is to suggest search combinations most relevant to what you are looking for, in a...
This December I will write one blog post a day, bringing you the latest in news, events, publications – what was amazing in 2014 and what will be even more awesomez! in 2015. Check...