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.
That’s right friends! Dr. Corey Olsen, Tolkien Professor, founder of the Mythgard Institute, and all-around smart guy, has finally got his first book, Exploring the Hobbit, up for pre-order. It is not, as you may first […]
Jef Murray, Tolkien artist and friend of MENet, announced via Facebook that he will be helping us celebrate carnival season (that’s now, folks!) in a special way. From now until Mardi-Gras midnight (February 21), Jef is selling […]
Yes, it’s true – this oddball film that has been making the news rounds lately really is as strange as it sounds. Gene Deitrich, creator of Tom & Gerry, joined his producer Tom Snyder in […]
Whenever I’m in a used bookstore, I like to look at the copies of anything by Tolkien, just to see what they have. Usually it ends up being the movie editions of The Lord of […]
Shock! Horror! To those of us who consider ourselves honorary inhabitants of Middle-earth, the Nobel committee has committed a grievous error – passing over Tolkien for the Nobel Prize . The shock isn’t in the […]
Two of Tolkien’s letters, addressed to the Deddington Library in Oxfordshire, have been returned to the library after being missing for over ten years. The letters, dated 1956, had been on loan to the Oxfordshire […]
Via Wairarapa Times-Age, Orlando Bloom was spotted shopping in Wairarapa with his wife Miranda Kerr and their son, 11-month-old Flynn. The three checked out shops along Main Street, including a store called Hope and Glory, […]
Over the holidays, while we were at that delightful stage of ‘filling up the corners’, as it were, Peter Jackson expounded a bit on the major differences between telling the stories of The Hobbit and […]
Benedict Cumberbatch (whose name I cannot stop saying aloud) and Martin Freeman recently shared a few of their thoughts on acting with the UK’s Radio Times. Benedict shared his distaste for actors who call more […]
Is Martin Freeman the perfect Bilbo, or is Martin Freeman the perfect Bilbo? Just posting this in case you need a little something to tide you over while you wait for The Hobbit trailer (which […]
