Tagged: J.R.R. Tolkien

The Bird & Baby, Oxford, at night (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles 7

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....

Bridge of Sighs, Oxford. (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles 0

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...

Just take a seat (c) Marcel R. Aubron-Bülles 0

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...

Exam Schools, Oxford 0

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...

Tolkien Reading Day 0

Happy 75th Birthday, Hobbit

n September 21st, 1937, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published and became an instant classic. Happy Birthday!

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Picture by Marcel Aubron-Bülles 0

The Tolkienist is coming online …

hank you all very much for your patience. I have been horribly busy in the last couple of weeks, returning from Return of the Ring (I will be writing a review of this...