How did The Lord of the Rings become a secret weapon in Italy’s culture wars? | Jamie Mackay (www.theguardian.com)
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On 10/24 at 10 am each year I have a reminder set to display this image on my devices. It brings a smile to my face. Hopefully it does for y’all as well. 🙂
“Eucatastrophe”: Tolkien on the secret to a good fairy tale...
A new report claims the apology posted for Lord of the Rings: Gollum was written using ChatGPT without the dev team’s consent....
How Moomin creator Tove Jansson found her dark side illustrating Tolkien and Carroll...
Made using discarded parking tickets, among other things. More images here: archive.org/details/lawful-evil-hwmb-03-009
Just saw these new HoMe boxed sets are coming out, with the first set releasing in November
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Tolkien couldn’t stand cars, and his philosophy of embracing walking and biking might just be the key to a hobbit’s happy and cheerful life....
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JRR Tolkien interview: ‘I never expected a money success’...
Stuart Kells...
There is a lot of stuff in Middle-Earth — exquisite gems, magic rings, fabled swords, and ancestral talismans — as well as the more general matter of clothes and armor, megaliths and monuments, food and drink. A supernatural aura suffuses many of these things: stones (standing stones, Seeing Stones, ruins), trees (waking,...
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In a moment of distraction from the laborious work of marking an “enormous pile of examination papers”, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay and scribbled, “in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”....
Why do we have such an enduring fascination for all things Tolkien half a century after his death? Author Nick Groom believes it’s because his works remains acutely relevant today...
Lol! I’m inclined to agree.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/11/the-silmarillion-by-jrr-tolkien-audiobook-review-the-lord-of-the-rings-andy-serkis full review...
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The https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/File:Jrrt_1972_tree.jpg of J.R.R. Tolkien is taken, in front of his favourite tree, the Pinus Nigra (named Laocoon), at the Botanic Garden in Oxford, 9th of August 1973.
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A formidable cast journey through folk via Bollywood to pop – not to mention mountain treks and orc attacks – in a compressed revival of the 2007 musical...