If you haven't seen this article yet: The quest to binge-read "Lord of the Rings"

It's very funny, a little inspiring, and makes me nostalgic for the experience of reading it for the first time. Some of the conclusions he draws about modern readers make me kind of sad though.

I was looking for something totally different while researching my challenge story for August, and came across this awesome bit of fanart quite by accident ( Read more... )

​Here's a list of some of my favorite songs about Middle-earth; some of them are from the soundtrack of the films; one is from the LOTR musical; others are settings by various musicians. I always enjoy listening to any of these songs. This list does not have any instrumentals, just songs with lyrics ( Read more... )

Last month our planned Tolkien night for International Tolkien Reading Day at the library had to be postponed, due to the head librarian having pneumonia. Tonight was the rescheduled event, and it was lots of fun ( Read more... )

At last I got my phone camera to talk to my computer!
Here there be pics!( Read more... )

There is a Public Radio program called "The Score" that comes on here on Friday afternoons at 2PM; it features various film scores. I don't usually get to hear much of it, as I mostly listen to the radio in the car. But I got off work a few minutes early this afternoon, and it was just starting up. Howard Shore was the guest, and they were ( Read more... )

The post I made several days ago with a short quiz about hobbits, so if you answered it, you can check out how you did ( Read more... )

Over at lotr_community we are having something kind of fun and different for our fifth anniversary of MPTT!

It's a comment-fic challenge. But not the usual sort. Instead we mods are posting story starters, and asking you to continue the stories. Head over there and see if you are inspired to continue the stories. So far we have one each for TH, LotR and the ( Read more... )

The Hall of Poets at TORN featured one of my poems, "The Smallest Hands"!

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2014/03/25/87889-the-great-hall-of-poets-8/