Post Tagged with: "J. R. R. Tolkien"

Test Your Tolkien Trivia with “Riddles in the Dark”

Test Your Tolkien Trivia with “Riddles in the Dark”

Get ready to test your Tolkien trivia! Each week on The Founders’ Inklings, Network Founder John Di Bartolo will be testing listeners on their Tolkien trivia by asking tricksy “Riddles in the Dark”. The first [...]

Announcing “Tolkien Tuesdays”!

Announcing “Tolkien Tuesdays”!

A little over 8 months since launching Middle-earth Network Radio we’re ramping up for the new year. Starting tomorrow, Tuesday December 6th we’ll be making every Tuesday ‘Tolkien Tuesday’! What this means is that every [...]

Nasmith, Kirk, and Murray on this week’s TFI!

Nasmith, Kirk, and Murray on this week’s TFI!

You won’t want to miss this The Founders’ Inklings! Join us tomorrow (December 6) at 10 PM EST, as the Middle-earth Network Founders’ discuss Tolkien-inspired art with three renowned artists: Ted Nasmith, Tim Kirk, and [...]

Legal Action Threatens The Hungry Hobbit

Legal Action Threatens The Hungry Hobbit

A cafe in Mosely, Birmingham called the Hungry Hobbit is less than 200 yards away from one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s childhood homes. The shop, lined with pictures from The Lord of the Rings, has been [...]

Tolkien’s Favorite Childhood Story, ‘The Princess and the Goblin,’ Comes to Middle-earth Network

Tolkien’s Favorite Childhood Story, ‘The Princess and the Goblin,’ Comes to Middle-earth Network

I find that some of my favorite children’s novels I discovered in adulthood. I came across a copy of George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin when I was in college, and I have to [...]

The Invention of Middle-earth

The Invention of Middle-earth

Middle-earth was not the creation of famed author and scholar J.R. R. Tolkien. In fact the term in literature and in language long preceded it’s use by Tolkien. Tolkien himself didn’t use the term in [...]

Tolkien Feast Week

Tolkien Feast Week

With the holidays fast approaching, my mind (tell me I’m not alone in this) is often thinking of food. For a lot of holidays, the food is at the forefront, being either symbolic or traditional. [...]

The One Ring – Game Skills and Stats Explored.

The One Ring – Game Skills and Stats Explored.

As mentioned before in my earlier article The One Ring (TOR) uses a twelve-sided dice and a number of six-sided dice, rolling a six will count as a success with the the twelve giving special [...]

From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages

From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages

Fun fact: I was going to write this entire post in Elvish. I kid. Or do I? Moving on. Michael Adams’s From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages seems to be one of those books [...]

LIVE Interview with Arjan Kiel Nov. 12

LIVE Interview with Arjan Kiel Nov. 12

Composer Arjan Kiel will be joining us live, for a Middle-earth Network special on Middle-earth Network Radio, this Saturday, November, 12th, at 1 PM EST.  Arjan is a film composer hailing from the Netherlands and [...]

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