The Welsh media have shown great interest in Festival in the Shire! Yesterday’s Western Mail included the article “Tolkien festival to be held in Middle Wales” in which I was quoted, together with the Mark Faith, the man behind the…
Thanks to all of you who sent e-mails with kind words about “Clash of the Gods”: I am pleased you found it informative and engaging. I have still only seen bits and pieces of the three episodes I was in…
A new series on world mythologies has been airing in the USA History Channel since late August 2009. The series started with Classical Greek Myths (Zeus, Medusa, Hercules, and others) and the next few episodes are now going to focus…
The BBC reported yesterday that women’s activist groups in Kenya have slapped their partners with a week-long sex ban in protest over the infighting plaguing the national unity government. Following this story I was interviewed by the BBC Radio Wales’…
Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis or Robbie Lewis? An Oxford-academic-cum-fantasy-writer, whose “muse” is called Alice; an elderly don (specialist on Lewis Carroll) with secret vices; a girl who literally goes “through the looking glass” (killed by a Persian mirror); and a…
Earlier today I was interviewed on the Roy Noble show at BBC Radio Wales and answered questions about my new book, including the links of Tolkien’s work with Wales and the Welsh language. To listen to this short interview click…
In Episode 2 of the current series of University Challenge, Corpus Christi College, Oxford successfully answered the following three questions posed by Jeremy Paxman: • Kalessin, who transports Ged and Arren to Roke is the oldest dragon in works by…
