The Hobbit

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 | No Comments |

Tolkien Reading Day 2020 – Interview with a Special Guest!

Exactly a week ago, it was Tolkien Reading Day 2020. Tolkien Reading Day is a worldwide celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, established by the Tolkien Society in 2003. It is held on the 25th of March, the date of the downfall…

By Dimitra Fimi | 1st April 2020 | The Hobbit, Tolkien | No Comments |

Reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit with my 6-and-a-half-year-old son: a journal

One of the highlights of 2019 was reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit aloud to my 6-and-a-half-year-old son at bedtime. We started towards the end of August 2019, and finished it in just over a month. I tweeted the entire experience…

By Dimitra Fimi | 3rd January 2020 | Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature, The Hobbit, Tolkien | No Comments |

Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2018 – round-up

I am now back from Leeds, after an excellent Tolkien Society Seminar, and an outstanding series of papers and a roundtable discussion on Tolkien at the International Medieval Congress 2018. Here’s a quick overview of all papers presented at the IMC,…

By Dimitra Fimi | 9th July 2018 | A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, Conferences, The Hobbit, Tolkien, Uncategorized | No Comments |

New article on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Father Christmas Letters in The Conversation

I had a new (festive) article published yesterday on the The Conversation, titled: “J.R.R. Tolkien’s Christmas letters to his children bring echoes of Middle-earth to the North Pole”. In this article I discuss the letters from Father Christmas Tolkien sent…

By Dimitra Fimi | 22nd December 2017 | Children's Fantasy, Children's Literature, Christmas, Invented Languages, Myth and Folklore, The Hobbit, Tolkien | No Comments |

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The Hobbit

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

Tolkien Reading Day 2020 – Interview with a Special Guest!

Reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit with my 6-and-a-half-year-old son: a journal

Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2018 – round-up

New article on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Father Christmas Letters in The Conversation

Tolkien Sessions at IMC Leeds, July 2017

Tolkien and the Welsh language (and other news)

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

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

Dublin, Wurzburg and Hobbit Day