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Guest Post from Shirefolktales (opens the original)
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It’s my absolute pleasure to bring you this guest post today from the creative duo behind Shirefolktales! Endarion and Emily are some of the kindest people I’ve met through the Tolkien community and I’ve personally been huge fan of their photography, writing, and artwork, which is all inspired from Tolkien’s world.In all their creative endeavors, Shirefolktales really transports us to Middle-earth: whether it’s sharing their journeys to Hobbitton through their dark and lush photography, cosplayi
An Introduction to Tolkien’s short stories: Farmer Giles of Ham and Leaf by Niggle (opens the original)
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“Before him stood the Tree, his Tree, finished. If you could say that of a Tree that was alive, its leaves opening, its branches growing and bending in the wind that Niggle had so often felt or guessed, and had so often failed to catch.” —J.R.R. Tolkien, from Leaf by NiggleWe’re over half way through the Year of Tolkien! It’s been an incredibly rewarding experience to dive into these texts together all year long and I’m very excited for what’s still to come!
An Interview with Tolkien Scholar Verlyn Flieger (opens the original)
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It is my absolute honor to present to you all my interview with the one and only Verlyn Flieger! Verlyn has been a pillar of Tolkien scholarship for over 50 years and her writing on Tolkien’s works has been fundamental to my own Tolkien studies, as I know it has for many others. If you’ve been reading along with us in A Year of Tolkien, you will definitely be familiar with some her writings, particularly her work on the expanded edition of Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-stories” which she edited with
“A song without victory”: Beowulf & Tolkien's long defeat (opens the original)
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This past month we’ve been reading Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf (if you missed the introduction to this text you can read it in full here)! I’m honored to have this Beowulf deep dive for you all today from Zachary Hyde (@entishtook on instagram), who is a fellow Tolkien reader and academic who specializes in medieval literature. I’ve been a long time admirer of Zac and his work and am delighted to feature him here! This piece dives in beautifully into the
An Introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien's Beowulf (opens the original)
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We’re half way through the year and onto our third segment of A Year of Tolkien: Tolkien’s Beowulf. So far we’ve been pretty firmly in Tolkien’s early imagination, exploring his ideas of faerie, fantasy, and poetry. Now, we enter a tumultuous and battle-heavy world of magic and monsters.I’m incredibly excited to read this together. The world of Beowulf is shaped by folklore, history, and fantasy, and it is also is one that is concerned with the very act of storytelling and poetry. Fittingly, Beo
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