Tolkien Birthday Toast 2024
The New Year brings with it the annual Tolkien Birthday Toast, celebrated the world over by fans of Tolkien’s work. Here is how the Tolkien Birthday Toast works. At 9 pm your local time on […]
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Tolkien Birthday Toast 2023
It’s another New Year, and so the time has come to once again join with other Tolkien fans all over the world to honor J. R. R. Tolkien. On January 3, the Tolkien Society invites Tolkien fans […]
A Tolkien Reading Day 2022 Musing: Love and Friendship
Happy Gondorian New Year, my dear hobbits, elves, dwarves, ents, wizards, humans, and any other folk I’ve left out! Somehow, Tolkien Reading Day sneaks up on me every year, despite my best efforts to remember […]
Tolkien Birthday Toast 2022
It’s another New Year, so you know what that means, Tolkien fans: it’s time to join together once again to celebrate the birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien! The beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of […]
Tolkien Birthday Toast 2021
The New Year has arrived (thank goodness!), and with it the time for Tolkien fans to symbolically join together all over the world to honor the man who brought us Middle-earth and all of Arda. […]
Tolkien Reading Day 2020
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 […]
Why we will celebrate Tolkien Reading Month
Each year on March 25th, the day The Ring was destroyed, the Tolkien community celebrates Tolkien Reading Day in celebration of Tolkien’s work. Every year, the Tolkien Society introduces a theme for Tolkien Reading Day […]
Christopher Tolkien Dies at Age 95
It is with great sadness that Middle-earth News joins the Tolkien fandom in mourning the passing of Christopher Tolkien, son of J. R. R. Tolkien and devoted steward of his father’s work. We extend our […]
“The Professor!” Tolkien Birthday Toast 2020
As we start a new year and (depending on how you count it) a new decade, Tolkien fans will symbolically join together all over the world to honor the man who brought us Middle-earth and […]
Tolkien 2019 – Celebrating 50 Years of the Tolkien Society: Part 2
From 7th – 11th of August, the Tolkien Society celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham. With Guests of Honour such as Tom Shippey, Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith, John Garth, and […]
