Tolkien

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 | No Comments |

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 | No Comments |

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 |

Top 3 Fantasy Authors excluding Tolkien? Data from a Twitter snap poll.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a tweet which ended up developing into a snap poll with over 450 responses. The question? Here it goes: Please help me with a quick experiment to inform a discussion with our #Fantasy…

By Dimitra Fimi | 18th May 2020 | Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Literature, Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin | 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’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 |

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 |

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 |

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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