Last year for Reading Week, my sister Ash came to visit me. This year, the two of us went to New York City. The impetus for this visit was the Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth exhibit on at the Morgan Library. […]
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I compiled this list from my last three annual read-throughs of The Lord of the Rings. (This post has been stewing in my mind for a few years!) Screen captures (which I spent way too much time searching through and choosing…) are from Movie-Screencaps.com; […]
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Tolkien & The Silmarillion by Clyde S. Kilby Format/source: Hardcover/Purchased secondhandPublished: 1976Publisher: Harold Shaw PublishersLength: 89 pages Genre: Biography★★★★ Yes, this delightful little volume is ‘outdated’, having been published in1976, a year before The Silmarillion. But it remains a valuable read as author Clyde S. Kilby, an Inklings […]
Thanks to Nandini for tagging me to do this! I’m posting this tag today in honour of Hobbit Day (September 22 is the birthday of both Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins, respective protagonists of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Gandalf […]
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When I was young and utterly in love with The Lord of the Rings films and The Hobbit book, I kept telling myself I would read The Silmarillion by the time I turned 18. In fact, I did not even read the entire The Lord of the […]