May 2019 – Dr Dimitra Fimi

TLS review of Dome Karukoski biopic “Tolkien”

It was great fun to review a film, for a change, though it was very much in keeping with one of the main strands of my blog: Dome Karukoski’s biopic Tolkien. I went into the cinema thinking about two words:…

By Dimitra Fimi | 16th May 2019 | Tolkien | No Comments |

A time-traveling cat fantasy: Lloyd Alexander’s Time Cat

I’ve been threatening with a blog post about a time-traveling cat for a while now, so here it is! I’m giving you Lloyd Alexander’s children’s fantasy Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth, what we’d probably call a…

By Dimitra Fimi | 12th May 2019 | Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature, Lloyd Alexander, Welsh myth an folklore | No Comments |

Demiurgic Beings: A Platonic word in Tolkien

Back in 2016, I was very privileged to watch the “lost recordings” from J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1968 interview for the BBC. Those were previously unbroadcast offcuts from a filmed interview with Tolkien by John Izzard, a small part of which had…

By Dimitra Fimi | 5th May 2019 | Interviews, Myth and Folklore, Tolkien, Uncategorized | No Comments |