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  Tolkien 101: Tom Bombadil

  01.19.11 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Who the hell is Tom Bombadil?

  If your familiarity with Tolkien’s Legendarium comes entirely from the movies, your mystification is easily explained – he wasn’t in the films. But if you have read The Lord of the Rings, you are no doubt still asking the question…

• Legendarium, News

  This month in Middle-earth history: January 2011

  01.05.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  This month in Middle-earth and Tolkien history: The Fellowship enters Moria and Gandalf gets killed (temporarily); JRR Tolkien and Elijah Wood are born…

• Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: The Men of the West

  12.16.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Casual viewers of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy will hear a lot of references to Aragorn’s people: The Men of the West, the Dúnedain, the Númenóreans, the Rangers of the North, the Arnorians and Gondorians. It all seems pretty confusing, but in fact it’s quite simple…

• Features, Legendarium, Opinion

  Of Course Hobbits Have to be White

  12.06.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I was advised by several friends not to write this post, which tells you something about the state of racial discourse in America today. But here we go…

  Of course Hobbits have to be white!

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: The Shire

  09.28.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  There are two locations that appear in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings that play central roles in both stories, and that can themselves be described fairly as “characters.” One of them is Rivendell, the sanctuary and fortress of Elrond Halfelven.

  The other is the Shire, the homeland of that prosperous and agrarian race, the Hobbits…

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: Samwise Gamgee

  08.27.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  If you think it strange to devote an entire article to someone as small and insignificant in the Legendarium as Samwise Gamgee, then you have bought into Sam’s own view of himself, as nothing but a simple gardener from The Shire.

  But many have suggested that Sam, rather than Aragorn or Frodo, is the main hero of The Lord of the Rings; and this view was promulgated by no less an authority than JRR Tolkien himself…

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: Fëanor

  07.14.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Fëanor is one of the greatest characters of The Silmarillion; although Beren Erchamion, Lúthien Tinúviel and Túrin Turambar are more traditional heroes, it’s Fëanor’s choices for both good and evil that create the conflicts that drive the bulk of the story.

  The story of Fëanor (told here as briefly as possible) begins as the story of the earliest Elves…

• Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: Aragorn

  07.01.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  If your sole familiarity with The Lord of the Rings is with the Peter Jackson film trilogy, then you probably only know Aragorn son of Arathorn as the handsome, brooding, scruffy loner with the broken sword who looked so dorky in that crown at the end of the third movie, of which he is the titular character. But there’s a huge backstory behind Aragorn, and this article will fill you in on the basics.

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: How to tell apart Saruman and Sauron

  04.13.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  As an aficionado of the original books, I find it strange that viewers of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy have trouble telling the difference between the villain characters Sauron and Saruman. But I have heard from more than one intelligent, attentive moviegoer that they were confused on this issue. So let’s get this cleared up…

• Events, Legendarium, News

  This week in Middle-earth history: April 11th – 17th

  04.12.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  This week in Middle-earth history: The Shadow of the Past; Tolkien’s parents are married; Sean Bean born; “The Children of Húrin” published.

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