J.R.R. Tolkien

The Bafflegagging Blundernagging Brothers

A Visually Stunning Illustrated Fantasy Book Interview with the creator of a new fantasy book that combines Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, and Monty Python for an out-of-this-world story. Suite101 met one-on-one with Aaron Mason, writer...

In a fantasy world of his own

For "Wicked" author Gregory Maguire, Oz is just as vivid as Earth: "I can close my eyes and be there." Gregory Maguire, who crafted the book on which the musical "Wicked" is based, recently published "A Lion Among Men," the...

Learn to be an author at Book Fair seminars

So we know that Miami Book Fair International, which is sneaking up on us at an alarming rate, is all about reading. But the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College, which oversees the fair, is offering some...

Relics from Cardinal Newman's grave go on show

Interest in Britain's first potential saint for 300 years yesterday was only a dribble which turned into a trickle, but advocates for Cardinal Henry Newman weren't dismayed. "It takes a very long time to make a saint," said...

Alta. oilsands is Canada's Mordor: UN water adviser

Canwest News Service Published:Â Friday, October 31, 2008 EDMONTON - Maude Barlow, a longtime anti-globalization activist and newly appointed water adviser to the United Nations, has just one word to describe Alberta's oilsands...

Relics From Cardinal Newman's Grave Go on Show

Silver thimbleful of soil joins list of other requirements for Pope to award sainthood to 19th century divine Interest in Britain's first potential saint for 300 years yesterday was only a dribble which turned into a trickle,...

A Tolkien favorite adapts to the stage

WEEKENDER for Oct. 31, 2008: Home loving Hobbits, cranky Dwarves and the wise wizard, Gandalf, are a few of Tolkien's favorite characters that can be seen on the G. B. Community Theatre stage beginning next weekend.

Speaker discusses history of children's literature in U.S.

by Suzanne Zack - November 3, 2008 J.R.R. Tolkien may have captured the minds of countless aficionados of fantasy fiction, but as a college professor at Oxford University in the early 1950s, he left something to be desired, at...

Prepare to Choose the Path of Good or Evil With Pandemic Studios The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

II titles. Set in “The Lord of the Rings” universe of J.R.R. Tolkien as depicted by the Academy Award®-winning films, players will finally fight the entirety of these epic battles any way they want. “We have been working hard...

Prepare to Choose the Path of Good or Evil With Pandemic Studios The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

”The Lord of the Rings“_ universe of J.R.R. Tolkien as depicted by the Academy Award®-winning films, players will finally fight the entirety of these epic battles any way they want. “˜The Lord of the Rings' and Star Wars...