The Tolkien Society--an"educational charity, literary society, and international fan club, devoted to promoting the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien--has announced the theme for this year's Summer Seminar: Tolkien and Diversity.
The Hobbits leave Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, and quickly encounter one of the most frightening sequences in The Lord of the Rings.
This week, we're reading Chapters 5 and 6, A Conspiracy Unmasked and The Old Forest, and we look at how the first steps of the Hobbit fellowship are begun, and their initial encounter with Tom Bombadil.
This week, we're reading Chapters 5 and 6, A Conspiracy Unmasked and The Old Forest, and we look at how the first steps of the Hobbit fellowship are begun, and their initial encounter with Tom Bombadil.
This week, we're reading Chapter 4, A Short Cut to Mushrooms. In this chapter, Frodo, Sam, and Pippin evade the Ringwraiths, visit Farmer Maggot, and eventually connect with Merry.
Oxford's Lamb & Flag pub will be shuttering its doors on January 31, 2021, more than 450 years after it first opened.
Join me and the guys at The Babylon Bee as we read through The Lord of the Rings! This week we look at Chapter 3, The Shadow of the Past.
Join me and the guys at The Babylon Bee as we read through The Lord of the Rings! This week we look at Chapter 3, The Shadow of the Past.
The good folks at TheOneRing.net have gotten a hold of the official show synopsis for Amazon's new show (scroll down to read the synopsis--read on for my take)... and while many (me included) have been calling it a new "Lord of the Rings" show, perhaps the better...
The satire site, The Babylon Bee, will be reading The Lord of the Rings over the next year with a weekly podcast.
In 2016, a Christmas poem by Tolkien written in 1936 was discovered at a school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. Read and listen to it for the first time!
This year Andy Serkis narrated the unabridged version of The Hobbit--and it might just be the best audio version yet