An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
In a past “Eagle’s View” post, we showed you a LEGO Helm’s Deep that put the official set set to shame. This LEGO reproduction of Rivendell by Blake Baer and Jack Bittner will take your breath […]
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The Hobbit Ranks Fifth in NPR’s Top One Hundred List of Young Adult Novels
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 […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
This fantastic shirt portrays the locations of The Lord of the Rings on a Tube Map resembling the London Underground and is available on Threadless.com. (I hear the Moria station is a thing to behold, […]
Return of the Ring! Live!
If you want the flavor of actually being at the Return of the Ring Conference at Loughborough University, England, our intrepid Guinness sipping Co-Founder John DiBartolo, is there and broadcasting live as time and places […]
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” – A Review
With J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit celebrating its 75th anniversary this September and the first of Peter Jackson’s two-part film adaptation arriving in theaters in December, audiences are likely to find themselves overwhelmed with books on […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
These limited edition 3D glasses for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be available in select cinemas this December. They appear to be forged by dwarves; the only problem is that dwarves are not exactly known […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
You can show your Lord of the Rings pride and your love of the Olympics with this great new t-shirt on Redbubble. (Arwen Kester) BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting Tolkien in Love, the story […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
Daniel Z “DNL” built this model of Helm’s Deep from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as a promotional display for a store in Oslo. (Rifflo) Wellington jeweler Steph Lusted described her time […]
Tolkien and Welsh (Tolkien a Chymraeg): Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Use of Welsh in his Legendarium
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 […]
Illustrations from a 1972 Soviet Edition of The Hobbit
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 […]
