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Hace 1 día · "Definitely there was a lot to that," filmmaker Michael Sarnoski says. The love director Michael Sarnoski has for J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings is pretty overt in his latest movie, A Quiet Place: Day One — even beyond the fact that two of his lead characters are also named Sam and Frodo. "Watching Lord of the Rings growing up, watching all the behind the scenes was a big part of ...
Hace 5 días · The Journal of Tolkien Research (JTR) has the goal of providing high-quality research and scholarship based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) and on transformative and derivative texts based on his work to a wide and diverse audience.
Hace 4 días · J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy books on Middle-earth, especially The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, drew on a wide array of influences including language, Christianity, mythology, archaeology, ancient and modern literature, and personal experience.
Hace 3 días · In the conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, as armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world—and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome—one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings ...
Hace 2 días · Professor Holly Ordway’s new book, Tolkien’s Faith, published last month, is not just an intriguing peek at the Catholic faith of the beloved author of The Lord of the Rings — it is truly a deep dive. Here are just a few of the delightful treasures Ordway discovered and brought to the surface, in descending order: 7.
Hace 2 días · In a letter to his own son J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that his mother was a ‘gifted lady of great beauty and wit, greatly stricken by God with grief and suffering who died in youth of a disease hastened by persecution of her faith.’
Hace 3 días · Tolkien’s personal folklore (a genre fathered and furthered by him) holds that in an idle moment he scrawled on the blank last page of an exam he was grading: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit,” and then invented a story to go with it.
