Meet the man whose illustrations have helped define Middle‑earth
Check out this interview with interview that Ethan Gilsdorf conducted with John Howe over two sessions in January...
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A list of the landmark novels in the history of...
What folks call dark fantasy — that niche within fantasy of bloody tales full of morally grey people,...
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Compare the time and distance travelled in The Hobbit and...
Emil over at LOTRProject has painstakingly assembled a new graphic comparing the distance each of our protagonists (Bilbo...
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Debunking that Hobbit movie rumour about Thorin Oakenshield
Many people have written to us over the last five or so days about a story that has...
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John Garth reviews Tolkien’s Beowulf translation
Tolkien scholar John Garth reviews Tolkien’s long-awaited translation of Beowulf (together with the short story Sellic Spell) in...
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Hall of Fire chat topic this Saturday: Trees and Tolkien
This Saturday at 6pm ET, Hall of Fire will explore the link between J.R.R. Tolkien and one of...
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