Six overlooked yet important characters from The Lord of the...
The key players in The Lord of the Rings are probably some of the most-written about characters in...
Continue reading 
Hall of Fire chat log: the stewards of Middle-earth
Last weekend in the Hall of Fire, bouncing off Gandalf’s famous “For I also am a steward” rejoinder...
Continue reading
An essay on Tolkien’s earliest mythology of Middle-earth
In this extract from his acclaimed book Tolkien and the Great War: the Threshold of Middle-earth, John Garth...
Continue reading
NZSO to record Desolation of Smaug soundtrack
Sir Peter Jackson’s second instalment of The Hobbit movie has become music to the ears of the New...
Continue reading
Omentielva Lempea elvish haiku contest
The Fifth International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages, Omentielva Lempea, is inviting participation in an Elvish Haiku...
Continue reading Hall of Fire chat log: Flotsam and Jetsam
A couple of weekends back in the Hall of Fire, we discussed the events of the Two Towers...
Continue reading