JRR Tolkien

trailer break: “The Hunt for Gollum”

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… A bunch of readers have emailed me about this — thank you all –and yes, I’ve been aware of it, and I’ve been meaning to get to it for quite a while. Remember when Strider went hunting for Gollum? You do if you read the appendices Tolkien … more…

I found the entrance to the dwarven halls!

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Another pic from my journeys through England: Khazad-dûm! This is a door of a church in the Cotswolds village of Stow-on-the-Wold, which some folks think may have inspired Tolkien — who was based in nearby Oxford — when he was writing The Lord of the Rings.