You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil – JRR Tolkien
FellowshipOfTolkien – 4th Anniversary (2021) A reading group is a wonderful experience for all readers – but it’s especially true for Tolkien readers. Here’s why.
Tolkien’s work is deeply about Hope, and still, it is seldom consolatory. He tells us about Hope as a powerful feeling, but it is so only if we act upon it.
The Surprising Histories Behind Tolkien’s Stories of the War of the Ring. A readalong with my Tolkien reading group on the roads of Middle-earth.
Sometimes we forget that the 1920s were an exciting time of change also outside of the US and Europe. Let’s have a look at what happened aroudn the globe.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens – “The Fellowship of the Ring” JRR Tolkien (Happy Birthday Prof. Tolkien)
A toast to my awesome Tolkien Reading Group, to our second year of reading tolkien (almost) every day, and to our favourite professor
I love era material! This month I’m showcasing James Joyce reading his Ulysses in 1929, the letters from one of Tolkien’s friends and a special Twitter account
March links roundup is especially stuffed with things comingup on this blog: book blogs, book relaunches, books related scavenger hunts. And Tolkien!
On Tolkien’s birthday I like to remember him as the artist he was, but also as the man he was. I want to honour the memory he passed on through his stories that never happened.
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – JRR Tolkien (The Fellowship fo the Ring)
The Fall of Gondolin is the first and the last tale of The Silmarillion. The grand story of the fall of the secret city of the elves.