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  Tolkien 101: Samwise Gamgee

  08.27.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 2 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…

• News

  Tolkien’s favorite Oxford pub to get major renovations

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

  Oxford, England’s Eagle and Child pub, famed as a meeting place of the Inklings literary society in the 1930s and ’40s, will soon see major renovations, according to St John’s College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

• Language

  The word “Hobbit” in The Oxford English Dictionary

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

  I have fulfilled a lifelong dream, and acquired my very own (digital) copy of the complete Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. Of course, the very first word I looked up was “hobbit,” which is famously included in this edition. I hereby reproduce the pertinent parts of the entry…

• News

  Today in Tolkien History: Tolkien marries in 1916

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

  On this day, March 22nd, in 1916, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien married Edith Mary Bratt at the Catholic Church of St. Mary Immaculate in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. He was 24; she was 27.

• Events, News

  Tolkien’s original art on display today in Oxford

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

  Original art by fantasy author JRR Tolkien will be on display today only, March 4th, at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, in celebration of World Book Day.

• Events, Tolkien 101

  Happy eleventy-eighth birthday to ‘Lord of the Rings’ author JRR Tolkien

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

  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, Oxford University professor, and author of the globally beloved fantasy epics The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was born eleventy-seven years ago today, on January 3rd, 1892, in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.

• News

  Forbes: Tolkien is 5th richest dead celebrity for 2009

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

  With an estimated $50 million in income to his estate in the last 12 months, Tolkien beat out Peanuts creator Charles Schulz ($35 million); peace chance-giver John Lennon ($15 million); childrens’ author and cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel ($15 million); and global warming denier Michael Crichton ($9 million).

• News

  Tolkien’s career in espionage greatly exaggerated

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

  In the wake of information released by a British government agency last week, news media globally have been reporting on the supposed “spy” career of author and philologist JRR Tolkien.

  If it’s hard to imagine the introverted, scholarly Oxford professor traveling the world, assassinating Nazis and bedding beautiful French Resistance fighters between swigs of a martini, shaken – not stirred, you are right to be skeptical.

• Features, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: How does one pronounce ‘Tolkien?’

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

  Type “pronounce tolkien” into Google, and you’ll find a lively debate on how to pronounce the surname of the beloved author of The Lord of the Rings. There are two main camps. One insists on “tol-kenn.” The other will argue that “Tolkien” is a German name, properly pronounced “Tolk-een.”

  They’re both wrong.

• News

  Tolkien Heirs vs. New Line: Trial to Go Before Jury

  06.09.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A suit filed against New Line Cinema, producers of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy, by the heirs of author JRR Tolkien will be decided by a jury, a state court judge has ruled.

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