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Why the Rings will remain popular - By EMILY WATT
December 1, 2003 - Lord of the Rings fans are a curious bunch. They live much of their lives in a fictional universe and share a disdain for the real world and its troublesome pernickety details: parking difficulties, interactions with real people, that complex moral area between black and white. Instead, they seek solace among like-minded folk on the internet, discussing the minutiae of elvish syntax, the semantics of whether Gandalf was really a wizard or was just called a wizard, and the many reasons that Legolas is the sexiest elf in Middle-earth. |
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NewsWire: Duke class has certain Ring - Durham
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The Eagle and Child for Sale!! - The Eagle and Child (where the Inklings met) has been put on sale for £1.2m
November 23, 2003 - |
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NewsWire: Making the mighty Oxford English Dictionary - A Novel by Simon Winchester
September 28, 2003 - |
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NewsWire: Lord of the Rings on course - Students will delve into magic of Tolkien
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J. R. R. Tolkien: Father of Epic Fantasy - Scores of authors have paid Tolkien the highest homage: imitation.
September 9, 2003 - When The Lord of the Rings was published in 1954-55, nothing like it had ever been seen. This epic tale in its elaborately devised world sent shock waves through the publishing world. It was, in the words of Tolkien biographer Tom Shippey, "a one-item category." But soon, it was clear that the category was destined to overflow. J. R. R. Tolkien had done nothing less than found a new genre. |
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September 2, 2003 - A Man RememberedSeptember 2, 2003 -
On September 2, 1973 J. R. R. Tolkien was given the gift that is to be given to all men as he passed beyond the sea and past the barriers of this Middle-earth to the arms of Eru. As men, it is our hope and our prayer that we shall all meet him there someday.--Jonathan and Ted and the Tolkien Online Team.Read More |
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Space, Time, and the 'New Hobbit' - C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien discuss science fiction.
August 30, 2003 - Lewis looks thoughtfully out of the window of his big sitting room in Magdalen College on to the deer park it overlooks. It's the spring of 1936. ... On his right hand is the reassuring sight of his favorite path "Addison's Walk" where, five years before, Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, and he had had that momentous nighttime conversation that led to his conversion. |
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NewsWire: Tolkien's Rings reading unearthed - Listen to rare recordings from literary greats
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NewsWire: Meeting Professor Tolkien - An American professor spent a summer with Tolkien. He remembers the man, his faith, and his writings.
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