Articles & interviews
Thursday 23 March 2023
Building on his recent investigations into the relationship of Middle-earth to tolkien’s scholarly search for the lost traditions of the ancient English tribes, Simon J. Cook now looks to tolkien’s famous essay ‘On Fairy Stories’. The result is a journey into the very heart of tolkien’s creative imagination lorem.
Sunday 26 February 2023
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours1.
Wednesday 14 December 2022
Research has shown that students’ reading book choices are highly dependent on trending movies or even series. This means that a little known book can become a success due to a great movies adaptation.
Tuesday 28 July 2015
Tove Jansson illustrated The Hobbit for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. The artwork is now going to be featured in the official Tolkien Calendar for 2016. How exciting is that?
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Monday 27 July 2015
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Friday 17 July 2015
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Thursday 16 July 2015
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Thursday 16 July 2015
Research has shown that students' reading book choices are highly dependent on trending movies or even series. This means that a little known book can become an overnight success due to a great movie adaptation.
Saturday 06 June 2015
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Sunday 03 May 2015
Building on his recent investigations into the relationship of Middle-earth to tolkien's scholarly search for the lost traditions of the ancient English tribes, Simon J. Cook now looks to tolkien's famous essay 'On Fairy Stories'. The result is a journey into the very heart of tolkien's creative imagination.
Saturday 29 November 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Tuesday 07 October 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Monday 06 October 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Friday 03 October 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Monday 29 September 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Monday 29 September 2014
Research has shown that students' reading book choices are highly dependent on trending movies or even series. This means that a little known book can become an overnight success due to a great movie adaptation.
Sunday 28 September 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Sunday 21 September 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Tuesday 02 September 2014
Tove Jansson illustrated The Hobbit for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. The artwork is now going to be featured in the official Tolkien Calendar for 2016. How exciting is that?
Monday 01 September 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Sunday 24 August 2014
Tove Jansson illustrated The Hobbit for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. The artwork is now going to be featured in the official Tolkien Calendar for 2016. How exciting is that?
Sunday 24 August 2014
Tove Jansson illustrated The Hobbit for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. The artwork is now going to be featured in the official Tolkien Calendar for 2016. How exciting is that?
Thursday 21 August 2014
Francisco Brannan was introduced into the world of Tolkien by the Hollywood movie trilogy on The Lord of the Rings. In this article he questions whether there will be another author like Tolkien and asks why you would need one when you already have J.R.R tolkien&apos;s creations?
Thursday 21 August 2014
Tove Jansson illustrated The Hobbit for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. The artwork is now going to be featured in the official Tolkien Calendar for 2016. How exciting is that?
Wednesday 20 August 2014
I'm very happy to announce the collector profile of Giulio Torlai, a medical doctor and Tolkien collector, who collects unique and rare Tolkien books. He considers himself an uncommon Tolkien collector, since he never focused on particular editions. Especially rare special Italian rebindings of Tolkien books are at the hearth of his collection.
Thursday 07 August 2014
Tove Jansson illustrated The Hobbit for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. The artwork is now going to be featured in the official Tolkien Calendar for 2016. How exciting is that?
Thursday 07 August 2014
Kate Funk informs us about two motion picture biopics that are in the pipeline, each exploring a different aspect of J.R.R. tolkien&apos;s life. Here is everything you need to know about the prospects of the two Tolkien biopics.
Thursday 24 July 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Wednesday 23 July 2014
In Peter Jackson's Hollywood rendering of both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, drug references are laid on thick and fast. In the following essay Imogen Reed searches an answer whether drug addiction is a theme in the books as well.
Friday 20 June 2014
Tolkien always emphasized the fact that myths followed languages. In the following article Lesley Vos brings us a several examples of words created by Tolkien and an account of tolkien&apos;s views concerning the relationship between a language and a myth.
Friday 20 June 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Friday 20 June 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Thursday 19 June 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Thursday 19 June 2014
HarperCollins reprints my favorite four-volume boxed-set edition of The Lord of the Rings in hardbac
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Sunday 11 May 2014
It is an indisputable fact that despite the today's increase in the children's books with urban fantasies, the tolkien&apos;s fantasy books still hold the number one position in children's reading lists.
Thursday 08 May 2014
J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most loved, respected and remembered authors. The role model attractiveness of tolkien&apos;s writing could be well gauged from the fact that he has given new dimensions and content value to the art of fantasy literature writings, including in it an array of legends, myths and heroic romantic stories.
Thursday 08 May 2014
Octo Kwan is a Hong Kong Chinese artist with a particular interest in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien whose work has been printed in the Beyond Bree calendars as well as in UK Tolkien Society publications. Now he has his own art book, which introduces us to a new world of art inspired by Tolkien.
Friday 25 April 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Wednesday 23 April 2014
Research has shown that students' reading book choices are highly dependent on trending movies or even series. This means that a little known book can become an overnight success due to a great movie adaptation.
Wednesday 23 April 2014
J. R. R. tolkien&apos;s letters and diaries hide many interesting details about our beloved writer. When noticed and revealed, they help us understand his personality and character much better, and make the final conclusion about what kind of a person this genius writer and charismatic man was.
Tuesday 01 April 2014
Friends, elves and hobbits, lend him your ears. For with 'The Desolation of Smaug' soon out on DVD Simon J. Cook comes to praise Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Hobbit, not to bury it.
Thursday 27 March 2014
Tove Jansson illustrated The Hobbit for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. The artwork is now going to be featured in the official Tolkien Calendar for 2016. How exciting is that?
Wednesday 26 March 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Wednesday 26 March 2014
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote many books, including the Middle-earth stories. The Lord of the Rings, like many stories of an epic journey, brings us lessons we can apply to our life. No matter how surreal his epic stories are, the pieces of wisdom reflected in them mirror that of the wisdom we must gain to champion our life here on earth.
Wednesday 19 March 2014
J.R.R. tolkien's Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary will be published world-wide on 22nd May 2014
It is an indisputable fact that despite the today's increase in the children's books with urban fantasies, the tolkien&apos;s fantasy books still hold the number one position in children's reading lists.
Sunday 09 March 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Thursday 06 March 2014
Oronzo Cilli is an Italian scholar who made a careful study of British and international Esperanto magazines of the first half of the twentieth century, containing still unpublished interesting details that reveal tolkien&apos;s active role to promote Esperanto in the thirties.
Wednesday 05 March 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Wednesday 05 March 2014
The Ideal of Kingship in the Writings of Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien by Christo
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?
Wednesday 05 March 2014
One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its writer that pierces and reaches so many?