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Samhain or Halloween? The “ancient Celtic year” in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy

Samhain or Halloween? The “ancient Celtic year” in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy

* This essay was originally published in Gramarye, the journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, in Issue 11 (Summer 2017), pp. 51-63.  In the medieval Irish tale of Tochmarc Emire (“The Wooing of Emer”),…

By Dimitra Fimi | 28th October 2019 | Books, Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature | No Comments |
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Tolkien’s Glittering Caves of Aglarond and Cheddar Gorge and Caves in Somerset

Tolkien’s Glittering Caves of Aglarond and Cheddar Gorge and Caves in Somerset

Last month, I visited Cheddar Gorge and Caves, together with my husband and young son. This trip had been “on the list” for many years, and I am grateful to my colleague and fellow Tolkien scholar Dr Kristine Larsen for…

By Dimitra Fimi | 20th October 2019 | The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien | No Comments |
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Tiny Alice and Miniature Books Exhibition – July-September 2019

Tiny Alice and Miniature Books Exhibition – July-September 2019

This summer, a very exciting project I have been working on for a while was launched, and I curated my first exhibition to accompany and complement it. The launch itself was an overwhelming moment, with a lot of media attention…

By Dimitra Fimi | 5th September 2019 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Literature, Media | No Comments |
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Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2019 – round-up

Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2019 – round-up

It’s taken a bit longer than usual this year, but this is my brief report on an outstanding series of papers and a roundtable discussion on Tolkien at the International Medieval Congress 2019 at Leeds in early July 2019. This…

By Dimitra Fimi | 23rd August 2019 | Uncategorized | No Comments |
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TLS review of Dome Karukoski biopic “Tolkien”

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

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 |
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Demiurgic Beings: A Platonic word in Tolkien

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 |
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Mervyn Peake and Anthony Browne: A Visual Dialogue

I give you below two images: The first one is by Mervyn Peake. It’s his illustration of the nursery rhyme “Little Jack Horner”, from the book Ride a cock-horse and other nursery rhymes (British Library Publishing). Peake’s Little Jack Horner is…

By Dimitra Fimi | 17th January 2019 | Uncategorized | No Comments |
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Tolkien on 1930s BBC Radio via historical issues of Radio Times

The BBC Genome Project has been uploading on its site listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. I’ve been meaning to have a little look there for Tolkien-related items for a while. There are many…

By Dimitra Fimi | 3rd January 2019 | The Fall of Arthur, Tolkien, Uncategorized | No Comments |
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My #PicturebookAdventCalendar: 24 brilliant Christmas picturebooks

Here are the 24 brilliant Christmas picturebooks I tweeted this December as part of my #PicturebookAdventCalendar:

By Dimitra Fimi | 24th December 2018 | Uncategorized | No Comments |
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