TLDR: Stop praising recent fantasy for deconstructing Tolkien if they’re “deconstructing” something Tolkien has never actually constructed. Source

If you think about it, hobbits are always finding magic items. Bilbo has found a ton of magic items in Middle-earth in The Lord of…

Happy New Year! This is a great little list of J.R.R. Tolkien inspired New Year’s resolutions. Here are the “New Year’s Resolutions that are worth…

This is a great post about how Christmas is canon in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Not only that but, since Christmas exists that means there must…

LOL! This is true. No other fantasy race has any idea how hobbits work so they can just bullsh*t their way through literally anything! Source:…

Redditor Ngugi compiled this interesting and extensive information about the fantasy warrior women in Tolkien’s Middle-earth: Éowyn is the best known but far from only valiant…

This is true. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s work there is technically no “canon” version of Bilbo’s adventures. The Hobbit book is canonically a very biased account…

This is a great collection of interesting observations about the elves in The Lord of the Rings. There’s so many neat facts and revelations about…

Just because JRR Tolkien can do that, doesn’t mean you can. JRR Tolkien can do that. You are not JRR Tolkien though: Source: sandersstudies

This is an awesome quote from author Diana Wynne Jones about attending J.R.R. Tolkien‘s lectures at Oxford when he was trying to finish writing The…