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Tag Archives: JRR Tolkien
Rankin-Bass’ The Hobbit (DVD)
Sarah Meador wrote this review. The animated musical version of The Hobbit, produced for American television by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass (Rankin-Bass), opens with a small bit of narration from the book as the camera pans over lovely … Continue reading
Tagged Animation, comics, fantasy, JRR Tolkien
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Karen Wynn Fonstad’s The Atlas of Middle-Earth
I overheard an interesting conversation that took place during High Tea in The Robert Graves Memorial Reading Room here in the Estate Library on a rainy afternoon while our Librarian was taking a break from fussing over the edition of Green Man Review he … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantastic geography, JRR Tolkien, maps
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Diana Glyer’s The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
Anyone who has ever read of the legendary group of writers called the Inklings, about their friendship and lives as Oxford academics, has likely wondered about the nature of this long standing group. Its two most commercially successful authors, Tolkien … Continue reading
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Tagged CS Lewis, Inklings, JRR Tolkien
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