BBC iWonder “Why do the Elves in The Hobbit sound...
BBC Wales have produced an online guide, via their iWonder site and presented by Dr Dimitra Fimi, about how...
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Quickbeam’s HOBBIT THEN & NOW Lecture at Valencia Library
The third time’s the charm as our very own Senior Staff writer Clifford ‘Quickbeam’ Broadway is set...
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Hobbits and hippies: Tolkien and the counterculture
The BBC’s Jane Ciabattari writes about the ’60s counter-culture influence of J.R.R. Tolkien. It seems a bit of...
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Majesty and simplicity: on Tolkien and allegory
In our latest Library feature, Tedoras takes up the vexed issue of Tolkien and allegory. Majesty and...
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Tolkien and Italy, through Switzerland and the FanContest
In our latest Library piece, TORn reader and Tolkien Italian Network member Gabriele Marconi explores how a 2 minute...
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Could the Black Arrow actually kill a dragon?
Over on Wired, Rhett Allain from Southeastern Louisiana University (who has previously analysed the length of the Balrog’s...
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