The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Movies, Art, Literature, Gaming 
From time out of mind, Oloriel has been typing away in her little apartment, cats at her feet, hoping to reach out to other fantasy lovers by way of folkandfairy.com. Her discovery of Tolkien as a young adult awakened her long-dormant love of the otherworldly, and now she sees magic everywhere. Oloriel has a degree in writing, which she put to work during a three-year stint in vanity publishing – an experience not unlike purgatory and very much like having to read 20 bad books each week – which she prefers not to talk about. To renew herself, she knits, naps, reads, prays, writes, walks in the woods, and eats too many cookies.
NPR recently published their Top 100 Best-ever Teen Novels list, with The Hobbit predictably occupying a comfortable spot at number five. The Lord of the Rings sits only two spots down at number seven. The pollsters […]
According to Tolkien Examiner Josh Vogt, New Zealand will be launching a new tourism slogan late this month. “100% Middle-earth” has been in the works for awhile now, beginning with an advertising campaign which capitalizes […]
It’s no secret that Christopher Tolkien has made every effort to stay away from the spotlight generated by his father’s works. For years, the octogenarian has been quietly laboring as the head of the Tolkien […]
The residents of Leukerbad, Switzerland, are knee-deep in Middle-earth festival attendees today. This weekend marks the sixth Middle-earth Festival since 2001, an event that was brought back due to popular demand after its last occurrence in 2005. […]
As any good Middle-earthling knows, The Lord of the Rings was primarily a linguistic playground for Tolkien, whose created languages captured the imaginations of readers and movie-goers. For those who’d like a deeper look into […]
You may recall the cover of this edition of The Hobbit, which was shared in a January post. It’s a quirky take on Bilbo and Smaug that makes going There and Back Again look like […]
For those of us who were sadly far, far away from Comic Con, the wait to hear exactly what was in the mysterious twelve minutes of footage shown by Peter Jackson at the Hobbit panel […]
Even though John Howe and Alan Lee have been busy working as conceptual artists for The Hobbit films, it seems they have found time to collaborate on the official 2013 Tolkien Calendar. According to our […]
When the costumers for The Hobbit needed yarn, they turned to fiber artist and native New Zealander Mary Hall, according to an article in New Zealand’s Marlborough Express. Mary, owner of Hallblacks Woolery, is a big fan […]
Our friends at the Mythgard Institute continue to pull out the stops when it comes to innovative education with the announcement of two new summer offerings. The first is a web-based college-prep writing course, wherein […]
