In this guest post, Henry Herz interviews Emil Johansson about his website LOTRproject and their recent collaboration Six Degrees of Sauron. Emil (@LOTRproject) maintains LOTRproject.com, through which he shares creative projects related to Tolkien’s works. Henry (@Nimpentoad) and his young sons write fantasy and science fiction books for kids. Their blog is henryherz.com. Continue reading “Six degrees of Sauron: discovering the character connections between The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion”
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Our good friend Emil at LOTRProject has put together a nifty little quiz you can take to work out which character from The Hobbit you might be.
Emil writes:
It is intended to be for fun only. Most of the character traits are taken from the book with some additional information from the movie.
I hope you will enjoy!
Continue reading “Find out which character from The Hobbit you are!”
Emil Johannson of the LOTRProject assembled this simple flowchart analysing how Gandalf solves problems. He says that when there is no hope left, Gandalf will simply call the eagles. Which is probably a neat demonstration of why the eagles are such a dangerous literary device — something Tolkien himself recognised.
One of our favourite geeky Middle-earth sites, LOTRProject, has a couple of new fun and interesting features to check out!
The first is a short quiz. Discover which character from The Hobbit you are most similar to. A Dwarf? A Hobbit? You may be surprised at the answer.
The second is a quite fabulous analysis of the amount of electricity that would be required to keep the LOTR movies’ Eye of Sauron going if it were an incandescent lightbulb. Although my knowledge of physics is sketchy, it’s an analysis worthy of XKCD’s Randall Munroe. Continue reading “Which Hobbit character are you?”