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Goblins in Dickens’s Pickwick Papers and Tolkien’s The Hobbit

Goblins in Dickens’s Pickwick Papers and Tolkien’s The Hobbit

*This blog post is a short extract from a paper I gave at Tolkien Society’s 2012 conference (Return of the Ring, Loughborough University, 16-20 August 2012), titled: “Elves, Goblins and Other ‘Fairy’ Things in The Hobbit: Tolkien’s Victorian and Edwardian…

By Dimitra Fimi | 12th December 2022 | Uncategorized | No Comments |
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Plastic toys and WWI trauma: Tommy in Lynne Reid Banks’ The Indian in the Cupboard

Plastic toys and WWI trauma: Tommy in Lynne Reid Banks’ The Indian in the Cupboard

I am on research leave at the moment, working – among other things – on a new book on miniature worlds and characters in children’s fantasy. One of the primary sources I’ve been re-reading recently is Lynne Reid Banks’ The…

By Dimitra Fimi | 11th November 2021 | Books, Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature | 4 Comments |
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Breaking the rules of fantasy: Alan Garner’s The Owl Service at 50

Breaking the rules of fantasy: Alan Garner’s The Owl Service at 50

* This is the original first draft of my Times Literary Supplement article “Alan Garner’s The Owl Service at fifty”. The published version (which appeared on 21 August 2017 to celebrate 50 years from the publication of this novel) is…

By Dimitra Fimi | 17th October 2021 | Alan Garner, Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature, Myth and Folklore, Welsh myth an folklore | No Comments |
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Tolkien’s Hobbits, a Black Rider, and a Tree Root: chasing a visual chain

Tolkien’s Hobbits, a Black Rider, and a Tree Root: chasing a visual chain

One of the most iconic scenes from Peter Jackson’s cinematic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the moment when Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, having set off from the Shire towards the great…

By Dimitra Fimi | 3rd August 2021 | Tolkien | 1 Comment |
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Tolkien: Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right (my review of Dome Karukoski’s biopic)

Tolkien: Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right (my review of Dome Karukoski’s biopic)

* This is the original first draft of my review of the film Tolkien (2019), directed by Dome Karukoski, for the TLS. The version published is slightly shorter, and with a different title – link here.   Tolkien: Knowing it’s…

By Dimitra Fimi | 13th June 2021 | Tolkien | 1 Comment |
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Surprises and Discoveries in the Drawings by Tolkien exhibition catalogue (1976)

Surprises and Discoveries in the Drawings by Tolkien exhibition catalogue (1976)

I have been going through a number of small pamphlets and booklets in my Tolkien collection recently, and have been posting about them on Twitter: see here for a thread on the UK and USA Hobbit 50th Anniversart commemorative booklets…

By Dimitra Fimi | 2nd June 2021 | Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien | 1 Comment |
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The Raw and the Cooked: William Morris’s Dwarf in The Wood Beyond the World, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gollum

The Raw and the Cooked: William Morris’s Dwarf in The Wood Beyond the World, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gollum

This is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for a few years now – in fact, every time I teach William Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World I tell myself I’ll get on with it, but every year…

By Dimitra Fimi | 26th October 2020 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments |
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Faërie: A Sonnet

It’s been a heady few weeks in my academic world. We recently launched the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow (which I co-direct), I welcomed a new cohort of Fantasy MLitt students and started teaching…

By Dimitra Fimi | 1st October 2020 | Fantasy Literature | No Comments |
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Epaminondas: Who was he, and why was Tolkien interested in him? (or, what’s different in the paperback edition of A Secret Vice?)

Epaminondas: Who was he, and why was Tolkien interested in him? (or, what’s different in the paperback edition of A Secret Vice?)

Since the publication of the paperback edition of A Secret Vice, I have been asked a few times what’s different or new, compared to the original hardback edition. My good friend and fellow Tolkien scholar Douglas A. Anderson actually asked…

By Dimitra Fimi | 29th September 2020 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments |
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Lloyd Alexander’s “eat and read” regime: food and fiction!

Lloyd Alexander’s “eat and read” regime: food and fiction!

I have briefly mentioned before Lloyd Alexander’s “eat and read” programme, but in these times of coronavirus, much more home-bound due to lock-down and the self-isolation advice, I have found myself reading more during the day, and cooking more, and…

By Dimitra Fimi | 27th May 2020 | Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature, Lloyd Alexander | 2 Comments |
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