#J.R.R. Tolkien&039;s Middle Earth

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Behind the Scenes - Summer 2022

Summer brought a lot of reading with it, from personal reading, to book clubs, to @kathrynstutz 's fantastic course on Tolkien and the ancient world.

Wow, wow, wow, I’ve had a lot going on recently, last quarter I was fretting about not having enough reading to make a post, now I have… almost too much. That is because I’ve picked up a number of epistolary substack stories being done like Dracula Daily and I took an online course on Tolkien and the Ancient World! So, for this quarter I’m going to be breaking things up a little differently as…

[bormgans]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS - J.R.R. Tolkien (1955)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS – J.R.R. Tolkien (1955)

There will be one big problem with this review: I truly cannot assess this book on its own merits. I was 22 when the first Peter Jackson adaptation came out, and over the years I’ve seen all three movies multiple times, as well as the extended versions. Not that I consider myself a The Lord Of The Ringsgeek – not at all – but the movies were such a dominant cultural force back in the days, with…

[thecomicon]

Fantastic Botany - Illustrated Book Documents Plant-Life Of Tolkien's Middle Earth

Fantastic Botany – Illustrated Book Documents Plant-Life Of Tolkien’s Middle Earth

  In a move bound to warm the hearts of completist J.R.R. Tolkien fans, prestigious publisher Oxford University Press are going to be releasing an attractive, illustrated hardback book that looks in many ways like any science reference work you might have on your most intellectually-themed bookshelf—but inside it’s going to document the byways of intricate fantasy by tracking the plant-life of…

[machandesu]

As mentioned in my previous WIRW post, I started off 2017 by finishing up the Hana Kimi manga. After I finished I thought to myself, “Self, do you want to read more manga, or not?”, and I decided not. Then I asked myself, “Self, what do you want to read then?”, and I pondered that question mightily. There are so many genres to choose from, and not only that, I literally have SO. MANY. BOOKS!

Just looking at them fills me with a strange sense of bookish pride, and well as an overwhelming sense of “OMGWHEREDOIEVENSTART*screamfaceemoji*?!”

Eventually, I settled on Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children.

If you’ve not read, then AVERT THINE EYES ofc bcz spoilers bbs, but the book picks up immediately after the first, where Jacob, Emma, and the rest of the Peculiar Children are on the run from the wights who destroyed their home & time loop; the children are also on a mission to find another ymbryne to help their headmistress Miss Peregrine, who was injured and stuck in her bird form. From there ensues meeting more Peculiars, traveling with Gypsies, kidnappings, a carnival, an ice fortress, some time travel, and a betrayal unimagined. So basically, it was pretty good, and I’m ready to read the third (and final?) book…which I don’t have…yet. XD

After that I decided it was time to change it up again, and I started to FINALLY delve into the History of Middle Earth, and started The Book of Lost Tales 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Funnily enough, I’m only on page 25, and getting through the first story “The Cottage of Lost Play”; not because it’s long, but actually because there’s the story itself, then ALL of the commentary. Since this was edited by Tolkien’s son after his death, the commentary shows the progress of how the story was written, along with different versions of the story itself written in various poems. So, it’s the actual history of Middle-Earth backstory, but also the history of how Tolkien created that world.

I’m a huge fan of PBS Masterpiece, and one of the shows I’m currently watching is Victoria, which is about Queen Victoria, during her teenage years when she assumed the throne after the death of her uncle, William IV. And guess what?? There’s a book about it!!

Victoria is written by Daisy Goodwin, who is also the screenwriter and creator of the show!! I have a feeling then, that the book will be very similar to the show, and I am quite all right with that, as I love the show already! :D

So that’s all that I’m reading at the moment. As mentioned in previous WIRW posts, feel free to friend me over at Goodreads, where you can see all kinds of bookish activity! Please share any recommendations, or books you are currently reading, in the comments! <3

NEW #BLOG POST #WIRW: Edition 0004 - Getting Peculiar with Victoria & Lost Tales. #amreading As mentioned in my previous WIRW post, I started off 2017 by finishing up the Hana Kimi…