The Somme and the ‘animal horror’ that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the world’s most celebrated fantasy writers, was inspired by time spent on the bloodsoaked...
Continue readingFormerly 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.
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J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the world’s most celebrated fantasy writers, was inspired by time spent on the bloodsoaked...
Continue readingWhen exactly is Durin’s Day? For various reasons, including the non-exact correlation of the Shire Calendar and our...
Continue readingWith the human face of Beorn finally revealed (Warning: visual spoilers on that link!), I thought readers might...
Continue readingIn this new TORn Library piece, Gibbelins writes about the deep, yet extraordinarily subtle faith underlying Tolkien’s legendarium,...
Continue readingEarlier today, the second (third, if you count the abbreviated international trailer shown in some regions) trailer for...
Continue readingJohn Garth, writer, researcher and author of Tolkien and the Great War recently published online for the first...
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