J.R.R. Tolkien

Hobbit Songs and Rhymes: The Folklore of Middle-earth

I was recently asked by lotrplaza.com to contribute an article to their new Scholars Forum on a Tolkien-related topic. My recently published book Tolkien, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits includes an important part on Tolkien’s knowledge of folklore…

By Dimitra Fimi | 7th April 2009 | Books, Journal Articles, Myth and Folklore, Public Lecture, Tolkien | No Comments |

Which Lewis in Oxford?

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…

By Dimitra Fimi | 30th March 2009 | C.S. Lewis, Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Literature, Media | No Comments |

Tolkien at Kalamazoo

The International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, is one of the oldest and most prestigious conferences on Medieval Studies in the world. The conference is now in its forty-fourth year, and for the past nine…

By Dimitra Fimi | 3rd February 2009 | Conferences, Tolkien | No Comments |

Book Launch

On Friday 28 November at 6pm the official launch of my book, Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, took place at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University. Dr Juliette Wood introduced me and I then had…

By Dimitra Fimi | 3rd December 2008 | Books, Tolkien | No Comments |

Radion Interview with Roy Noble at BBC Radio Wales

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…

By Dimitra Fimi | 28th November 2008 | Books, Interviews, Media, Tolkien | No Comments |

Tolkien, Race and Cultural History published

My book Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. My book aspires to be a major new contribution to Tolkien studies, as it aims to contextualise Tolkien’s work, bring to light…

By Dimitra Fimi | 24th November 2008 | Books, Tolkien | No Comments |

Book Cover of Tolkien, Race and Cultural History is now online

The dust jacket for my forthcoming book Tolkien, Race and Cultural History is now online on the Palgrave Macmillan website. The photo figuring on the book cover is of my own design, which I created by manipulating a photograph I…

By Dimitra Fimi | 20th September 2008 | Books, Tolkien | No Comments |

The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference

The proceedings of Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On, a conference organized by the Tolkien Society to celebrate 50 years of The Lord of the Rings which took place at Aston University, Birmingham, on 11-15 August 2005, will be…

By Dimitra Fimi | 15th September 2008 | Books, Conferences, Tolkien | No Comments |

Fifth volume of the journal Tolkien Studies

The fifth volume of the journal Tolkien Studies has just been published. As always it contains a great selection of scholarly articles, shorter notes and book reviews on many different aspects of Tolkien’s creativity. The leading article is a masteful…

By Dimitra Fimi | 15th August 2008 | Journal Articles, Tolkien | No Comments |

Tolkien on Fairy-Stories

A new expanded edition of Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories” has just been published, edited by Douglas Anderson and Verlyn Flieger. The book includes previously unpublished versions of the essay, rejected passages, as well as a critical study of the history…

By Dimitra Fimi | 1st July 2008 | Books | No Comments |