Antidepressant drug or Tolkien?
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.
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The only football club ever to be mentioned in ‘The Silmarillion’ is now home to the first ever Tolkien-inspired football fan club – Jenas Tirith
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...
Tolkien and Diversity: A Seminar Report
No Tolkien Society Seminar has ever attracted as much attention as the one held digitally on the weekend of July 3rd/4th. The announcement of “Tolkien and Diversity” was met with enthusiastic expressions of...
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth. The exhibition of a generation
rom June 1st, 2018 the Bodleian Libraries will be presenting an exhibition of Tolkien‘s life and works of special magnificence. Drawing from the vaults of their Tolkien archives and the manuscript collection at...
Meet the Makers: The First Anniversary of the #TolkienTribe on Instagram
hen J.R.R. Tolkien’s 125th birthday was about to be celebrated – in 2017 – a bunch of Tolkienists from all over the world came together on Instagram to do just that: share in...
Amazon partnering up to do “The Lord of the Rings” television series
n a press release on Monday, November 13th, 2017 Amazon has confirmed it will be teaming up with “the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema” to produce a multi seasons...
Literary Worldbuilding – International Conference at Augsburg University on Tolkien, Jordan, Williams, Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin
am en route to the 14th Tolkien Seminar by the German Tolkien Society hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Augsburg. Augsburg Uni has been holding lecture series on Tolkien...
Meet the Travelling Tolkienist and Tolkienshop at Hobbit Village, Barletta
nother amazing Tolkien-related is coming up this weekend and this time it is in beautiful Barletta in Italy. Both myself and René van Rossenberg, the owner of the Tolkienshop, have been invited as...
There is so much more to explore with J.R.R. Tolkien #NotOneLastTime
he world premiere of ‘The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies” took place on December 1st and tomorrow 13 new countries will see the film come to the big screen, among them the USA,...
Not a Tolkien quote: You can only come to the morning through the shadow(s)
ne of the series with the Tolkienist is called Things J.R.R. Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with. Its task is to enlighten you on things the Professor...
Support an outstanding Tolkien fan project: 50.000 Orcs – The Muster of Rohan
o some out there it may sound like hyperbole but to me who has seen this live this statement simply has to be true: the team of 50.000 Orcs are the creators of...
How tall was J.R.R. Tolkien?
his is one of the more mundane questions about the author who brought us “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” and it is one rather easily answered. He gave an interview...