“Eucatastrophe”: Tolkien on the secret to a good fairy tale (bigthink.com)
“Eucatastrophe”: Tolkien on the secret to a good fairy tale...
Lord of the Rings: Gollum Apology Was Written Using ChatGPT by Publisher Nacon, According to Report (gamerant.com)
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 (www.independent.co.uk)
How Moomin creator Tove Jansson found her dark side illustrating Tolkien and Carroll...
Eye of Sauron public art in Toronto (ia800501.us.archive.org)
Made using discarded parking tickets, among other things. More images here: archive.org/details/lawful-evil-hwmb-03-009
Read a rare, unedited translation of Jonah by J.R.R. Tolkien (web.archive.org)
edited for tone and in regard to topic at hand....
J.R.R. Tolkien’s little-known feud with cars (web.archive.org)
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....
Is Mordor Based on the Himalayas? (www.atlasobscura.com)
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Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary (theconversation.com)
Stuart Kells...
How Tolkien filled Middle-Earth with a “weird realism” philosophy (bigthink.com)
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,...
6 Historic Places That Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (heritagecalling.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/2032196...
'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' Release Date Is Now Confirmed (www.themarysue.com)
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How J.R.R. Tolkien's novels were inspired by Medieval poems of 'northern bravery' (theconversation.com)
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”....
How Tolkien offers consolation in our dark times - The Big Issue | Nick Groom, 26 Aug 2023 (www.bigissue.com)
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...
Actually, the Lord of the Rings extended editions aren’t long enough (www.thedigitalfix.com)
Lol! I’m inclined to agree.
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien audiobook review – The Lord of the Rings’ mythical forerunner (www.theguardian.com)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/11/the-silmarillion-by-jrr-tolkien-audiobook-review-the-lord-of-the-rings-andy-serkis full review...
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's Costumes and the Challenge of Reimagining Tolkien's Unseen Second Age (www.denofgeek.com)
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