One of the great things about film and TV adaptations is that they give image, movement, and voice to the scenes and characters that live…
Tomorrow is Bilbo’s and Frodo’s birthdays, but today is the 83rd anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit (1937). I first encountered The Hobbit through…
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-stories,” he lays out the concepts of primary and secondary worlds, and how storytellers are effectively “sub-creators,” taking elements from…