Did Tolkien ever say something like that the world of The ...
Tolkien's “I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size)” in Context
Saying he was a hobbit could have been his way of saying that (of all the creatures in the middle-earth) the hobbit was the creature he felt he ...
There and Back Again: Visiting Tolkien's World to Understand Our ...
Tolkien's fantasy world transcends its peers because of how he teaches eternal truths through things like dragons, Elves, orcs, and Hobbits.
Why did JRRT never publish The Silmarillion? - Mythgard Forums
So, not surprisingly, Tolkien fans generally accepted 'The Silmarillion' as canon. Text from 'The Silmarillion' was used to explain mysteries ...
War Without Allegory: WWI, Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings
“I fear it may be so with mine,” said Frodo. “There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the ...
Tolkien's Views on Creation and Evolution
“There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many skeptical men have accepted as true on its own merits...
What would the Professor have thought of Peter Jackson's version of ...
Like I said at the beginning, we'll never know what Tolkien would have thought of the Jackson movies; but based on what we've just read, it's ...
Tolkien's Literary Output: Fundamentally Religious and Catholic?
The period was pre-Christian, but it was a monotheistic world.” The interviewer asked, “Monotheistic? Then who was the One God of Middle-earth?” ...
J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Literary Friendship and Rivalry, Oxford
Lewis favorably reviewed The Hobbit in The Times, and both wrote a blurb for the back of The Lord of the Rings and gushed over it in the press. (Apparently, ...
How Well Did Tolkien Imagine Longevity? - Middle-earth Blog
” Even though Tolkien never wrote that, it seems like his characters often said something similar, especially the older characters. Tom ...
Letter 186: On the "real theme" of LOTR, etc. - The Hall of Fire
Of course, as Tolkien points out elsewhere, the concept of the Ring was created long before the Manhattan Project. But it is interesting that ...
Letter to the poet, W.H. Auden, 7 Jun 1955 - The Tolkien Estate
I knew nothing of the Palantíri, though the moment the Orthanc-stone was cast from the window, I recognized it, and knew the meaning of the 'rhyme of lore' that ...
Tolkien Fandom Oral Histories Éoreds 1-9 - e-Publications@Marquette
... Ever since, I have not been able to get Middle-earth out of my mind or ... a word from C.S. Lewis: Joy. As a reader of Tolkien, I had a sense that ...
Tolkien Speaks: The Secret to a Happy Marriage
I never called Edith Luthien – but she was the source of the ... To use the popular phrase, Tolkien was very much “in love” with this wife.
Art Versus the Machine: What Tolkien Might Say to Extinction ...
The Lord of the Rings stirred in me something inexplicable, a yearning for another world at once older and more wonderful than our own. At long ...
'I do call it the wind,' said Aragorn. 'But that does not make what you say untrue. There are many evil and unfriendly things in the world that ...
J.R.R Tolkien And Ireland – AN SIONNACH FIONN
But it has never felt like that to me. For J.R.R. Tolkien, son of an English mother and father, was no different from that great Irish nationalist writer, son ...
Why Calling Tolkien's Work “A Mythology for England” is Wrong and ...
Instead, this phrase was first used by Carpenter in his biography of Tolkien. Unfortunately, because the phrase was indexed in quotation marks ...
Building Middle-Earth: What Tolkien Did Right – and Wrong
In most books, a forest is just a forest, but under Tolkien's pen, a forest is a vast stretch of towering pines with roots questing out like ...
Love, Death, and the Sub-Creative Imagination in J. R. R. Tolkien
... say anything without saying too much: the attempt to say ... The imaginal flowering of Tolkien's mythopoeic world was never something external to ...
The precise source of the quotation has always been a mystery—a frustration to later writers on Tolkien, like myself, who like precision and ...