Showing posts with label The Lord of the Rings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Lord of the Rings. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

John Rateliff Delves into the History of "The Hobbit"

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I’m no Middle Earth scholar, but everything I know about  J.R.R. Tolkien  tells me  The Hobbit  was written carefully, over a long period of...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Watching "The Two Towers" at Royal Albert Hall

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I have to confess. I am a Ringhead.   I first read  J.R.R. Tolkien’s   The Hobbit  and  The Lord of the Rings  trilogy in high school, using...
Monday, January 31, 2022

"In the House of Tom Bombadil" by C.R. Wiley

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Tom Bombadil is one of the most curious of characters in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. His scene with the four hobbits, early in ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

"On the Shoulders of Hobbits" by Louis Markos

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I first read J.R.R. Tolkien’s  The Hobbit  and  The Lord of the Rings  in the late 1960s, using what I didn’t know were pirated edition...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Editor of the Legendarium: Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020)

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Imagine being a child, listening with your siblings to bedtime stories about Bilbo Baggins, or being enchanted at Christmas-time as you...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

“Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship” by Colin Duriez

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It is perhaps the most famous friendship of the 20 th century. The impact it had on both literature and popular Christianity was enorm...
Monday, June 27, 2016

“A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War”

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It was a terrible war, this “ war to end all wars ,” and it pitted men against the most technologically advanced war machines created u...
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