Analysing the role of The ...
Sep 10 at 9:37 am -We know that The Necromancer has a big role to play in...
Welcome to the Library!
Formerly known as "Greenbooks", the library is a place for more in-depth articles of a scholarly nature. Yeah…it's for hard-core Tolkien fans. Get your geek on and start browsing!
Why The Hobbit movie’s divergences are beneficial
September 13, 2013 at 10:45 pm -Another interesting thought-piece that I stumbled on in my Middle-earth wanderings across the internet. In this article, Tolkien scholar Michael Martinez tackles the eternally vexing question of textual fidelity and why he feels that the divergences between novel and film are beneficial. THERE is a certain amount of creative license that enters into any film adaptation of a book. And history teaches us that no matter how faithful (or unfaithful) a film adaptation is with...
David Salo on Black Speech...
Sep 3 at 2:45 am -In this piece on his blog Midgardsmal, linguist David Salo writes about...