Awareness of the outside world. Previous mention of the problems at the 2023 Hugo awards. [Observing The Natural World]
Turns out it was not the initial suspects. Whatever: The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here. Or maybe it was. Charlies’ Diary: Worldcon in the news. I’m lost.
Speaking of ripples, this one will have repercussions for years.
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Weighing the cultural impact of The Lord of the Rings by the footprint it has left.
Terry Pratchett, “J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.” Tolkien gateway: Terry Pratchett. Note, the quote is from A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction, but from the essay “Magic Kingdoms”. Hat tip to G.
Follow chapter by chapter. Reactor: Lord of the Rings re-read: Introduction, Nepveu 2008.
Cover art through the years. The Paperback Palette: The Paperback ART of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Adazing: Lord of the Rings Book Cover Designs
Craft. The Fellowship of the Knits: Lord of the Rings: The Unofficial Knitting Book, Tanis Gray (Insight editions, 2023). Tanis Knits: Books.
Food. Middle-earth Recipes.
Library. Bodleian Online: Explore Tolkien.
“The Tolkien Professorship was named in memory of one of the most distinguished specialists in medieval literature in the Faculty of English, who was also widely regarded as a novelist.” University of Oxford: J.R.R. Tolkien Professorship of English Literature and Language. Would his work have been enough for a professorship, without the novels, which he wrote BTW? Anyone familiar with academia care to advise?
This does not cover fan sites, academic conferences, museum exhibits, chess sets, tour guides, and so on, and so on.
The Movies
Jens Hansen: Makers of the world’s most famous ring
Previously Posted
Art of the outside world. Works by JRRT. Tolkien, The official site of the Tolkien Estate: Painting, covers illustrations, maps, & calligraphy. [Fractal Alphabet A, Graphic Art]
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
I am familiar with all those covers… I had those original paperback books. Later my husband and I both worked at the University Book Store in Seattle.
All those other worlds!
Jane
Did you know my cousin won an academy award for best sound editing in ‘The Two Towers’? He lived in New Zealand for years during the filming of the series. AV
Covers. Some I have owned. Others I never knew existed.
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Worlds. Just the one, but big enough to accommodate everything we read into it.
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Academy Award. Way cool.