These days I've professor Tolkien on my mind, given that next week-end hubby and I will be in Dozza of the painted walls for a Tolkien-themed festival and exibition.

Thinking back to the Professor's fortune and to the recurring accusations of being classist and racist I found myself with a fragment of memory nagging at my mind ( Read more... )

...But definitely it wasn't The Hobbit ( Read more... )

Browsing my friends' page I happened across this post by ysabetwordsmith linking to a different post about evil races in fantasy. The whole sparked a few thoughts of mine and here they are, in part to elaborate on what the quoted OP wrote, in part to get a few things off my chest (or off my stomach, as we say in Italy).

The OP mentions  the evil race in his/her ( Read more... )

Aka The History of the Lord of the Rings - Part 1 or The History of Middle-Earth volume 6 ( Read more... )