Arts: Once upon a Time ; Fairytales Were Only for Children. but Authors like Philip Pullman and Jrr Tolkien Have Changed All That. So How Does Fantasy Help Explain Our World, Asks Gavanndra HodgeHodge, Gavanndra
Along similar lines, I have had a chunk of work with a school in the southwest, helping with strategic planning. Most middle-ranking public schools are struggling with the VAT rise and the business rates knock. I am trying to provide some horsepower here. As always, I am helping more than...
Is there anything more ethereal than the elves in this movie? Yes, there is. Howard Shore’s score seems to have hatched from a celestial bubble of creativity that has been traveling the cosmos ever since JRR Tolkien slipped this mortal coil. ...
The biopic Tolkien, out May 10, depicts the famous author's life, but only a specific segment of it — his early life, from childhood through his service in World War I and the immediate aftermath. While the film's aim is to show how these formative…
The Silmarillion/ History’s of Middle Earth by JRR Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien Have to give the editions that allow me to be a Tolkien smart a$$ some credit. These novels depict Tolkien’s immense undertaking of giving his series a history. Kingdom of Thorn and Bone by Greg Keyes I...
In Tolkien’s Middle Earth universe, the Hobbits were quiet people who shunned any sort of travel. That made the characters of Bilbo and Frodo that much more heroic given the culture which they came from. Likewise, I came from a family which never traveled much. I never left North American...
How come the Elves or Dwarves didn’t succumb as well? Are Men the most susceptible race? Maybe JRR Tolkien explains it better in the books, but the movie fans will just have to accept it. 13. Gandalf doesn’t use as much magic as he should ...
One day while grading essays, JRR Tolkien wrote, “In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit,” on the back of a student’s paper. That single sentence launched this beloved children’s story about one unwilling hobbit who is dragged there (and back again) onto an adventure to the Misty ...