Tolkien

Litstack Recs: The Places In-Between & The Silmarillion

6 years ago Lauren Alwan

The Places In-Between, Rory Stewart In 2002, Rory Stewart made a walk across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul. A scholar...

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Tolkien Film in the Works

8 years ago LitStackEditor

The life of fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien will be the subject of an upcoming movie, giving fans a glimpse into the...

New Tolkien Book?

9 years ago LitStackEditor

From The Huffington Post: J.R.R. Tolkien, the highly revered author of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit,"...

Essay: Refuting Tolkien

9 years ago Sharon Browning

Steven Lloyd Wilson, Associate Editor of the website Pajiba, uses Tolkien as a jumping off point to explore how some...

Birthdays

On this day, July 29, in 1965, novelist Chang-Rae Lee was born in South Korea (his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old). He is the author of six novels so far, which have brought him a PEN/Hemingway Award (for Native Speaker), an Asian/American Literary Award (for A Gesture Life), a Dayton Literary Peace Prize as well as a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2010 novel The Surrendered, and finalist status for 2014’s On Such a Full Sea for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest work, My Year Abroad, was published this February. Today he turns 56.

Tolkien

Litstack Recs: The Places In-Between & The Silmarillion

Tolkien Film in the Works

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Essay: Refuting Tolkien

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