The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Movies, Art, Literature, Gaming 
James Moffett, author of A Tolkienist’s Perspective blog, recently took us along on his journey to Oxford. In “A Journey to Oxford: A Tolkienist’s Pilgrimage,” Moffett shares a very personal account of his experiences walking […]
A special 50th Anniversary pocket-sized edition of Farmer Giles of Ham has recently been released on the Tolkien Bookshop site. It comes with a new introduction, a map, the Professor’s notes for a sequel and the […]
A rare copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary book The Hobbit is to be auctioned by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury on 11 April in their sale of Modern Literature. The press release says: As the third and final part of […]
Congratulations to the winners of our Tolkien Reading Day Book Cover Redesign Contest! We had 19 spectacular entries for this competition and it’s been difficult choosing the winners but here are the two covers the […]
Congratulations to the winners of our Tolkien Reading Day Haiku Contest! We had a wonderful 115 entries for this competition and it’s been difficult choosing the winners but here are the two haiku’s the staff […]
Happy birthday to actor Lee Pace who plays Thranduil in The Hobbit! Here are some of the highlights of 1979, the year of his birth: The US Voyager 1 space probe had just revealed the […]
Translated in 1926 but never before considered for publication, Tolkien’s version of the epic Old English poem, edited by his son Christopher, will finally be published on May 22 of this year as Beowulf: A […]
In a recent article from The Artifice, H.M. Bradford addresses the questions of artistic responsibility and authorial identity–two concepts that are surprisingly recent–which have developed mostly in the past few hundred years. For millennia, when […]
Although we were in many ways in familiar territory when we first encountered The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2012, there were some striking differences between the look and feel of The Hobbit and that […]
So many people talk about their childhood memories of The Hobbit. For some, that memory is about being read to by a loved one, while for others The Hobbit was the first full book they […]
