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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dragon Con 2021 had a different feel, to be sure, but the always popular Tolkien-themed party events offered plenty of hobbit cheer and con camaraderie. As in past years, the two fun-filled celebrations, An Evening […]
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 […]
Tom Roa, Professor at Waikato University’s faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, is translating Tolkien’s The Hobbit into te reo Māori. Roa is no stranger to translating children’s classics into te reo Māori. In 2015, […]
Tolkien’s world has long been one of my refuges. I first visited Middle-earth at age 8 and have made frequent pilgrimages there in the more than a half century since. I think that we need […]
It’s that time of year again! Summer grows old, the days are shortening toward fall, and geeks of all fandoms will soon descend on Atlanta, Georgia, for the wonder that is Dragon Con. Dragon Con […]
As part of this year’s New York Tolkien Conference, attendees got the chance to watch an early screening of the upcoming Tolkien biopic entitled, well, Tolkien. Before I dive into my thoughts on the film, […]
I began following the progress of the Hobbit Hideaway’s natural build in its early stages, when I happened upon a post update detailing the construction of the roof. Made up of timber beams that circumvent […]