Post Tagged with: "J. R. R. Tolkien"

Tolkien Birthday Toast 2024

The New Year brings with it the annual Tolkien Birthday Toast, celebrated the world over by fans of Tolkien’s work. Here is how the Tolkien Birthday Toast works. At 9 pm your local time on […]

Talking Tolkien at Dragon Con 2023

Dragon Con 2023 is just around the corner! It’s con crunch time, as we finish (or try to, anyway) those cosplays and wait for the schedule to be loaded into the app. While we wait […]

Tolkien Birthday Toast 2023

It’s another New Year, and so the time has come to once again join with other Tolkien fans all over the world to honor J. R. R. Tolkien. On January 3, the Tolkien Society invites Tolkien fans […]

‘Rings of Power’ Rules Dragon Con 2022

Amazon’s new series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power made a big entrance in Dragon Con 2022. In a last-minute twist of timing, Amazon announced that the series two-episode premiere would be […]

Let the Tolkien Times Roll at Dragon Con 2022!

UPDATED WITH LATE-BREAKING NEWS! Once again summer heads downhill toward the start of most students’ school year and the turn of seasons to autumn. But it also means the great fan gathering that ushers in […]

A Tolkien Reading Day 2022 Musing: Love and Friendship

Happy Gondorian New Year, my dear hobbits, elves, dwarves, ents, wizards, humans, and any other folk I’ve left out! Somehow, Tolkien Reading Day sneaks up on me every year, despite my best efforts to remember […]

Tolkien Birthday Toast 2022

It’s another New Year, so you know what that means, Tolkien fans: it’s time to join together once again to celebrate the birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien! The beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of […]

Dragon Con 2021: Tolkien Content Preview

The Dragon awakens! In a story, a returning dragon would be a big problem. This is, however, good news to fans when the Dragon concerned is Dragon Con, the annual pop culture celebration that takes […]

Tolkien Birthday Toast 2021

The New Year has arrived (thank goodness!), and with it the time for Tolkien fans to symbolically join together all over the world to honor the man who brought us Middle-earth and all of Arda. […]

Dragon Con Goes Virtual for 2020

In more normal times, I would already be safely ensconced in a hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, getting ready for Dragon Con to get full and truly underway. As we know too well, the times are […]