This Week in Middle-earth
Year 2942 – The Hobbit May 1 Gandalf and Bilbo return to Rivendell Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings May 1 Crowning of King Elessar Elrond and Arwen set out from Rivendell Then […]
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The Curious Case of Radagast the Brown
Who was Radagast the Brown? A member of the Order of wizards, Radagast was a Maia sent to Middle-earth to aid its inhabitants against the growing threat of Sauron. During the Council of Elrond in […]
Tolkien Conference on ‘Nature and Landscape’ in Jena, Germany
The Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, will host the 11th Seminar of the German Tolkien Society (DTG) from 09 to 11 May 2014. The 2014 seminar is going to explore the various aspects of Nature and Landscape […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 2941 – The Hobbit April 25 Gandalf first sees Bilbo after years of absence from the Shire April 26 The Unexpected Party ‘”Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are not together in the house […]
Middle Earth Beer and Music Festival 2014
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” JRR Tolkien This year marks the sixth anniversary of The Middle Earth Beer & Music Festival in Lancashire, […]
Middle-earth overlapping Earth
“I have, I suppose, constructed an imaginary time, but kept my feet on my own mother-earth for place.” Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: 211 To Rhona Beare Tolkien once mentioned in one of his […]
Birmingham Visitor Attractions offer New Tolkien Trail
Often, Tolkien is associated with the city of Oxford, and in order to understand Tolkien and his life, people visit Oxford. However, an often neglected fact is that Tolkien grew up in Birmingham. Whether the […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 2510 April 15 Battle of the Field of Celebrant In the year 2510 of the Third Age, the fierce Easterlings known as the Balchoth waged open war against a weakened Gondor, and had already […]
Adam Roberts to give Pembroke Tolkien Lecture
Professor Adam Roberts will deliver the second annual Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. The press release says: Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 3018 – The Lord of the Rings April 12 Gandalf reaches Hobbiton It was over nine years since Frodo had seen or heard of him [Gandalf], and he had begun to think that the […]
