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

Tolkien Panels Pack the Room at Dragon Con 2019

Tolkien content remains a big draw at Dragon Con. Two years on from the loss of the dedicated Tolkien track and with no High Fantasy track related celebrity guests in attendance this year, many Tolkien […]

Feast Week, Day 8: The Prancing Pony

For this year’s Feast Week celebration, we are sharing Middle-earth News Staff Favorites from Feast Weeks past! These posts were chosen by the Middle-earth News team as our collective favorites for each day of Feast […]

Feast Week, Day 5: The Feast of Tom Bombadil

For this year’s Feast Week celebration, we are sharing Middle-earth News Staff Favorites from Feast Weeks past! These posts were chosen by the Middle-earth News team as our collective favorites for each day of Feast […]

Dragon Con 2018: Tolkien Fandom Wrap-up

Dragon Con 2018 is wrapped, and fans are already looking forward to next year. For Tolkien fans, Dragon Con 2018 had a lot to offer. The second year of the High Fantasy programming track offered […]

Celebrate Tolkien Week 2018!

The celebration is upon us! Yesterday was the start of Tolkien Week, the annual festival that honors the work of J. R. R. Tolkien and his son and editor, Christopher Tolkien. First celebrated in 1978 […]

The Hobbit Facsimile Gift Edition: A Review

I recently bought myself the facsimile gift addition of The Hobbit and for those of you who don’t know what this edition is, it’s The Hobbit in its original form. The version that we’re all […]

Playing the Pronoun Game: Are All of The Hobbit’s Dwarves Male?

It’s not exactly a secret that J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is short on female characters. While the recent Peter Jackson films may have created new characters as well as expanding on the roles of women […]

Celebrate with the Tolkien Birthday Toast 2018!

The year is new, and Tolkien fans always start the year off right, by honoring the man who brought us Middle-earth and all of Arda. On January 3, the Tolkien Society invites Tolkien fans throughout […]

‘Celebrate Tolkien’ Recap

By Jim Wert, Guest Contributor “Celebrate Tolkien” had its inaugural gathering on November 9 and 10, 2017 at the Old Cigar Warehouse in downtown Greenville, SC.  The celebration drew more than 100 Tolkien fans from […]

Dragon Con 2017: Tolkien Content on the New High Fantasy Track

Dragon Con 2017 brought some changes for Tolkien fans. As I reported in earlier articles, the Tolkien content at Dragon Con has been folded into a new High Fantasy Track that includes a wide range […]