January 2009

The Red Book of Westmarch (Archives)

• Web Links

  Take the “Super-hard” LOTR Movie Quiz

  01.13.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I created a quick 10-question Lord of the Rings movie quiz for Facebook/Flixter. “Hard” of course is relative. The kind of people who visit Tolkien blogs may not feel too challenged.

• News

  HarperCollins to publish “Sigurd”

  01.07.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 2 Comments

  HarperCollins will publish Tolkien’s reworking of “The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.” Tolkien took a number of stabs at epic poetry, although this collection apparently has the added benefit of being in English. This isn’t something that’s going to appeal to casual fans, though. Only superfans and students of Old Norse are going to be interested. Fortunately, I’m two for two!

• Opinion

  Was “Parma Endorion” stolen? Is distributing e-books “theft?”

  01.06.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  I was confused by this post by Michael Martinez on the Tolkien Studies Blog. He’s mad that a copy of his e-book, Parma Endorion, escaped into the Internet badlands as a non-protected PDF file, and is being shared without his explicit permission. Some thoughts…

• News

  Periannath.com returns from… um… sabbatical

  01.06.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  Sorry I stopped posting for such a long time. I intend to get back to regular posting, both here and on Sauron’s Blog, as of today.

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