The Wilde Hunt through the list of current licensees of Middle-earth Enterprises ATTENTION: 100% done! Christmas shopping is just around the corner and as the global pandemic does not seem to release its...
Almost six years ago I shared a post with this blog titled Help me find great Tolkienists on Twitter. Today it feels a bit like the “early days social media”; I had joined...
(Continued from part 1 & 2. This is the final part.) The modern age FRONT OF WAR IN THE NORTH So far we have discussed only the beginnings, and most of these works...
R.R. Tolkien helped organise and participated in the sexcentenary celebrations of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1914. Now, exactly one hundred years later, the college has reached the 700 years mark and has recently...
his is one of the posts that has become invalid in the course of time. First published in 2014 when my main account used to be the Macrobee – deleted in 2018 –...
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...
UPDATE: An updated and corrected version of this infographic is now available! he Tolkienist is a project with a long-term plan 🙂 I will not bore with the details but do believe me...
n recent years I have read many criticisms of Tolkien’s works, some of them more elegant and convincing than others. As with any writer of his time and age, particularly in comparison to...
Walking Through Wilderland: An English archaeological landscape investigation hy read JRR Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, before watching Peter Jackson’s film? Well, speaking as an English historian and post-medieval archaeological landscape investigator, I consider...
