Books

CBeebies Alice in Wonderland: A Journey of Imagination

Having a nearly three-year-old means that I’m always attuned to what’s new on CBeebies and, naturally, there’s a lot of bespoke Christmas entertainment this time of the year, including the ever-popular Christmas panto. Last year it was Peter Pan, the…

By Dimitra Fimi | 20th December 2015 | Books, Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature, Media | No Comments |

Two tiny Tolkienian parallels in Susan Cooper’s reflections

As I have written in previous entry, I am currently working on a monograph on Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy for the Palgrave Macmillan Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature series. I have, therefore, been reading and re-reading primary and…

By Dimitra Fimi | 9th October 2015 | Books, Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature, Tolkien | No Comments |

Two books, two conferences, and other news

I am on annual leave at last (hooray!) and it’s time for another long-overdue update. It’s been a very busy few months, mainly taken up by working on two books (!) and being involved in a number of events. First…

By Dimitra Fimi | 5th August 2015 | Academic Teaching, Books, Children's Fantasy, Conferences, Fantasy Literature, Media, Public Lecture, Tolkien | No Comments |

A little Elvish love story in The Lord of the Rings

Stuck in trains for hours yesterday, I was revisiting favourite passages from The Lord of the Rings. It’s almost a cliche to say that every re-reading rewards you with new details of Tolkien’s invented world that you hadn’t quite noticed…

By Dimitra Fimi | 14th February 2015 | Books, Fantasy Literature, Myth and Folklore, Tolkien | No Comments |

Tolkien, Fantasy and Medievalism at IMC Leeds 2015

During the last few years I have been attending the Tolkien sessions at Kalamazoo semi-regularly (once every two years, on average). The International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, hosted by Western Michigan University, has been running for over 50 years, and the…

By Dimitra Fimi | 8th February 2015 | Books, Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature, Conferences, Fantasy Literature, Journal Articles, Tolkien | No Comments |

Tolkien and the Welsh language (and other news)

I had hoped to post more often on this blog, but this term has been unusually busy. There have been a lot of great opportunities and many exciting projects are in the pipeline, but time has flown and here we…

By Dimitra Fimi | 12th December 2014 | Books, Fantasy Literature, Interviews, Media, The Hobbit, Tolkien | No Comments |

On Hobbits and Poetry: Musings on Newly Published Letters by Tolkien

Tolkien scholars and fans alike have been extremely lucky to have witnessed a flurry of recent publications of Tolkien’s works such as The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009), The Fall of Arthur (2013) and Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary,…

By Dimitra Fimi | 25th July 2014 | Books, The Hobbit, Tolkien | No Comments |

2001 A Space Odyssey in kid’s TV

Having a 17-month-old toddler means that I was well awake and CBeebies was on at 7:40 am this Sunday. I was pulled out of my half-awake, half-asleep state, when in this morning’s Q Pootle 5 episode a monolith suddenly appeared in…

By Dimitra Fimi | 6th July 2014 | Academic Teaching, Books, Children's Literature, Science Fiction | No Comments |

Mythgard classes, Tolkien’s Beowulf, JTR, Tolkien Companion and Kalamazoo

It’s been a while since my last update: I am back to lecturing full-time now, and I really hit the ground running this term! Among other modules, I taught Literary Transformations (Year 2), Gothic and Science Fiction (Year 3) and…

By Dimitra Fimi | 27th June 2014 | Academic Teaching, Books, Children's Fantasy, Conferences, Fantasy Literature, Media, Myth and Folklore, Online Teaching, Public Lecture, Tolkien | No Comments |

A much delayed update: Salem Press’ The Fantastic, (re) reading The Hobbit and Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur

It’s been a while since I have had a chance to update the News section (I am on maternity leave, with all the joys and tribulations that this encompasses!) so some most of the announcements here are a few months/weeks…

By Dimitra Fimi | 16th June 2013 | Books, Fantasy Literature, The Hobbit, Tolkien, Uncategorized | No Comments |