Articles & interviews
Monday 29 March 2010
A Tolkien English Glossary - A Guide to Old Uncommon and Archaic Words Used in The Hobbit and The Lo
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 25 March 2010
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 04 March 2010
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.
Tuesday 16 February 2010
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?
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Friday 12 February 2010
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?
Friday 05 February 2010
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.
Friday 05 February 2010
The four-volume, deluxe pocket boxed set contains J.R.R. tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). Each book features a leatherette cover with stamped title and all four books.
Friday 05 February 2010
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.
Friday 05 February 2010
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?
Saturday 23 January 2010
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?
Saturday 23 January 2010
It is an indisputable fact that despite the today's increase in the children's books with urban fantasies, the tolkien's fantasy books still hold the number one position in children's reading lists.
Tuesday 19 January 2010
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 18 January 2010
It is my great pleasure to announce that the new Lembas Extra, the annual magazine of the Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor, has been released. Once again it is packed with essays on Tolkien and Middle-earth, all written in English so that all Tolkien fans across the globe can enjoy the articles. The theme of this Lembas Extra is Tolkien in Poetry and Song. There are several essays about Tolkien poetry, like Mythopoeia and The Song of Durin, but there is also tolkien-inspired poetry from Dutch and foreign authors.
Monday 18 January 2010
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?
Tuesday 01 December 2009
Peter Jackson has hinted that production for The Hobbit will be delayed from the original estimate of March 2010 to the middle of 2010. Speaking to German site Movie Reporter, the producer stated the production will be started after scripts for the two films are complete. Following Jacksons statement, there has been a speculation that the release dates for The Hobbit and The Hobbit 2 will also be pushed back.
Tuesday 01 December 2009
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Books, The Films, The Whole Cultural Phenomenon by Jeremy M. Robinson released t
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 24 November 2009
The Lord of the Rings fan movie The Hunt For Gollum has now been seen by over 4 million people from all over the world. While it was only made on a very tiny budget of GBP 3000 and freely distributed through the internet it has proven to be an enormous hit. The 40 minute film, directed by the unknown Chris Bouchard, depects events leading up to the Peter Jackson trilogy, giving the Middle-earth fans some fresh material while waiting for The Hobbit movies.
Monday 23 November 2009
It is an indisputable fact that despite the today's increase in the children's books with urban fantasies, the tolkien's fantasy books still hold the number one position in children's reading lists.
Monday 23 November 2009
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 November 2009
HarperCollins have officially announced the world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.
Monday 16 November 2009
It is expected that in one of the following weeks the latest book by Walking Tree Publishers, Music in Middle-earth, will be released. Simultaniasly a German version will be published by Verlag der Villa Fledermaus, Musik in Mittelerde. The editors are Friedhelm Schneidewind and Heidi Steimel. Both copies will hold the same essays, which are written by authors like Bradford Lee Eden and Fabian Geier.
Sunday 15 November 2009
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 15 November 2009
Parma Eldalamberon, The Book of Elven-tongues, is a journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, a special interest group of the Mythopoeic Society. They have just announced the release of issue 18, which presents previously unpublished writings by J. R. R. Tolkien concerning his Elvish languages and early versions of his invented scripts. These have been edited and annotated by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith and Patrick H. Wynne, under the guidance of Christopher Tolkien and with the permission of the Tolkien Estate.
Saturday 14 November 2009
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?
Saturday 14 November 2009
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 13 November 2009
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?
Friday 13 November 2009
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 13 November 2009
It is an indisputable fact that despite the today's increase in the children's books with urban fantasies, the tolkien's fantasy books still hold the number one position in children's reading lists.
Saturday 07 November 2009
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?
Saturday 07 November 2009
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?
Saturday 07 November 2009
A beautifully captured moment in which the Lady of Lothlorien gently bids farewell to the ring bearer, Galadriels Blessing - Framed Lithograph Fine Art Print by renowned artist Jerry Vanderstelt can now be a part of your Middle-Earth collection by placing your Pre-Order through SideshowCollectibles.com!
Sunday 16 August 2009
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?
Saturday 15 August 2009
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 22 July 2009
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 22 July 2009
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 13 July 2009
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 09 July 2009
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.
Thursday 09 July 2009
The four-volume, deluxe pocket boxed set contains J.R.R. tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). Each book features a leatherette cover with stamped title and all four books.
Wednesday 01 July 2009
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 01 July 2009
In only a few weeks time a very special meeting will take place at the beautiful medieval castle of Rieneck in Northern Bavaria. The annual convention of the German Tolkien Society, the Tolkien Thing (i.e. moot), will get together not only friends and guests from all over the continent but also one special guest we are very happy to have with us: Tom Shippey.
Tuesday 30 June 2009
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 25 June 2009
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 17 June 2009
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 16 June 2009
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 15 June 2009
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 11 June 2009
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 10 June 2009
There has just been announced a fun contest by the Tolkien Team of HarperCollins. Here is your chance to win a Hobbit audio book on CD by just sending in your review of the latest Tolkien book The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun.
Thursday 04 June 2009
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 04 June 2009
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 June 2009
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?