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...
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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.
On my own behalf: The Tolkienist has now become a Content Gem
or those of you taking an interest in the wider range of topics I am curating via my Twitter handle @Macrobee (@The_Tolkienist is putting an emphasis on all things Tolkienian) you may have seen...
Introducing the art of John Cockshaw: A different path to Middle-earth
hen I first saw John’s art I was amazed at seeing a new approach in representing the creative worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. His unique mixture of photography and digital retouching seemed to me another...
How it should have ended: Hobbit and LotR film trilogies the different way
[F/dropcap]or those of you with a love for films and alternative endings (or rather, let’s squeeze any film into three minutes) “How it should have ended” should be a well-known source of hilarious entertainment....
Not a Tolkien quote: It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons
nother installment in my never-ending series of Things J.R.R. Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with and this time I will be able to link the Professor with Oprah...
Tolkien-related events in 2014 – a chronological list
Middle-earth meetings of this year Conventions, conferences and more new year is here and it is time to list some of those outstanding events you should be looking for. This list is a work...
