Post Tagged with: "Tolkien"

Artisan Crafted Perfume Oils Bring Fantasy Myths to Life

It’s been five years since we’ve last reported on Etsy shop owner, Cat, and her amazing fantasy-inspired, hand-crafted vegan perfumes. Since that time, her shop, Deep Midnight Perfumes, has blossomed into one of the most […]

Collector’s Corner: Collecting Everything vs. Specialized Collections

In this week’s Collectors Corner post we’ll talk about having a specialized collection versus collecting everything. A few weeks ago, I’ve ordered my fourth illustrated edition of The Hobbit. The edition is from 1992 and […]

Playing the Pronoun Game: Are All of The Hobbit’s Dwarves Male?

It’s not exactly a secret that J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is short on female characters. While the recent Peter Jackson films may have created new characters as well as expanding on the roles of women […]

‘A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War: A New Documentary Series on Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in the Making

Our friends over on the German Tolkien Society reported that a new documentary series about J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis is in the making. In 5 episodes, each 50 minutes long, the documentary will explore the […]

Interview with Austrian Concrete Artist Daniel Nachbaur

Ever since the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, when readers were first introduced to Middle-earth, Tolkien’s creative vision stimulated the imaginations of many artists in the years to come. From music inspired by Tolkien’s […]

Celebrate Tolkien 2017

I’ve always been envious of Tolkien-themed events like Mythmoot, HobbitCon and DragonCon’s Tolkien track (which they sadly don’t have anymore), but that doesn’t stop me from being happy that others get to go. I recently […]

40th Anniversary Luxury Edition of The Silmarillion to be Released in Germany

40th Anniversary Luxury Edition of The Silmarillion to be Released in Germany

One of our readers named @thranduilen, pointed out on Twitter that the German Tolkien publisher Klett-Cotta, also known as Hobbit Presse, will release a 40th anniversary luxury edition of The Silmarillion. This luxury edition will […]

Hobbit Book Club Week 3: Hopes and Heroes

Welcome to a recap of week three of our Hobbit Book club. For the entire month of June, we and a handful of readers will read Tolkien’s The Hobbit. At the beginning of each week, I will write […]

Hobbit Book Club Week 2: Spiders and Elves

Welcome to a recap of week two of our Hobbit Book club. For the entire month of June, we and a handful of readers will read Tolkien’s The Hobbit. At the beginning of each week, I will write a […]

Hobbit Book Club: Week 1 Recap

Welcome to a recap of week one of our Hobbit Book club. For the entire month of June, we and a handful of readers will read Tolkien’s The Hobbit. At the beginning of each week, […]