Witch-hunting in 17th-century Scotland was so well paid that it attracted some blatant fakers – Susan Morrison (www.scotsman.com)
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“Eucatastrophe”: Tolkien on the secret to a good fairy tale...
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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...
When Britain was gripped by ‘fairy mania’...
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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....
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,...
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”....
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Dune: Part Two is set for a November 3, 2023 release with a six-week IMAX run, showing potential changes in the movie industry, favoring non-superhero films....
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...
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.