Tolkien and the virtues of fairy-stories
In our latest Library piece, TORn feature writer Tedoras discusses 10 key excerpts from J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous lecture...
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Formerly 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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The nine habits of the highly successful Nazgûl
Why do some Nazgûl thrive when commanded to hunt their master’s stolen Ring while others falter under...
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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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Gandalf as Tolkien’s Will
In our latest Library feature, Tedoras muses on how we can view Gandalf as the prime extension of...
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Explore this great interactive map of lost Beleriand
A couple of weeks ago we revealed LOTRProject’s new interactive map of Middle-earth — complete with key dates,...
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