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• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: The Shire

  09.28.10 | Kunochan | 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: Fëanor

  07.14.10 | Kunochan | 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…

• Features, Legendarium, Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: How to tell apart Saruman and Sauron

  04.13.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 4 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, 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.

• Features

  Ten new year’s resolutions for fans of ‘The Lord of the Rings’

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

  Whether you were introduced to Tolkien by Orlando Bloom’s shield-surfing antics, or if you have read The Lord of the Rings every summer since the 3rd grade (guilty), there is always more you can do to become the Tolkien superfan you have always aspired to be.

  Here are ten suggestions…

• Humor, Web Links

  Sauron’s Blog #56:That’s It, I QUIT!

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

  With post #52, Sauron’s Blog began the story of Beren & Lúthien (told from Sauron’s point of view). Now, the epic tale continues, as Sauron learns that Beren and Lúthien have stolen a Silmaril from the Iron Crown of Morgoth…

• Language, News

  Oxford Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year: ‘Unfriend’

  11.18.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have chosen “unfriend” as its “2009 Word of the Year,” beating out other Internet-oriented neologisms such as “hashtag,” “netbook,” “paywall” and “sexting.”

  Tolkien aficionados may remember the word from The Silmarillion, where it is used twice (once in the form “unfriendship”).

• News

  ‘The Hobbit’ first published 72 years ago this week

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

  Seventy-two years ago yesterday, JRR Tolkien’s first novel, The Hobbit, was published by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London.

  The 1,500 copies of the first printing sold out by the end of that year, 1937.

• Web Links

  Sauron’s Blog #48: The Battle of Sudden Flame is ON!!!

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

  As our first assault in the new war, I got to try out my patented Pyroclastic Attack. See, we dug so deep at Angband that we hit magma, so I designed a series of sluices that brought the magma up into giant reservoirs. Last night we blew the floodgates, and millions of metric tons of lava, ash and poisonous gas burst out onto Ard-galen, converting what was a hideous plain infested with bright green grasses and sickly white flowers into a beautiful wasteland of basalt and hyaloclastite. Yes!

• Tolkien 101

  Tolkien 101: Sauron Gorthaur

  06.29.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Sauron is the titular character and primary villain of The Lord of the Rings. He is introduced as The Necromancer in The Hobbit; and his origins and history are recounted in The Silmarillion. But who is Sauron? Why is he so evil? And how did he become so obsessed with locating missing jewelry?

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