Academic
Pictures – JRR Tolkien
JRR Tolkien was not only a writer, but he loved to illustrate as well. From 1973-1979 (with a gap in 1975), a series of calendars were published that used Tolkien’s paintings, drawings, and designs. 1973 […]
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Road Goes Ever On – JRR Tolkien and Donald Swann
The Road Goes Ever On was published in 1968, during JRR Tolkien’s lifetime, in collaboration with composer Donald Swann. It’s quite the testament to Tolkien’s popularity that people wanted to hear the songs come to […]
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A Secret Vice – JRR Tolkien (ed. Dimtra Fimi and Andrew Wiggins)
Before he was a fantasy author, JRR Tolkien was a philologist. And I mean, before in the sense of prior to and in the sense of preceding in importance. In a very real way, it […]
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The Story of Kullervo – JRR Tolkien (ed. Verlyn Flieger)
The Story of Kullervo is the second of three non-Middle-Earth JRR Tolkien tales to receive a literary overview from noted Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger. Flieger had written several books about Tolkien and Tolkien’s legendarium, including […]
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The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun – JRR Tolkien (ed. Verlyn Flieger)
Before Tolkien was the Master of Middle-Earth, he was a humble academic specializing in medieval English literature and philology. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun comes from this non-Middle-Earth academic side of Tolkien merging with […]
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The History of the Hobbit – John Rateliff
The History of the Hobbit is a massive work. At nearly one thousand pages and almost three inches thick, John Rateliff’s work of literary archaeology stands alone—literally and figuratively. Originally published in 2007 as a […]
Fiction
The Battle of Maldon: Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
I’ve been a Lord of the Rings fan for just over twenty years now, and if you’re realizing that coincides with the Peter Jackson movie trilogy, you’d be absolutely right. A love of the books […]