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Howe first read The Lord of the Rings in high school, having borrowed the books from his school library. He started with The Two Towers because "everyone...

comments on The Lord of the Rings:] "When he would say, 'You can do better than that. Better, Tolkien, please!' I would try. I'd sit down and write the section...

the issue that "as all wikis, there's always room for improvement", especially pointing out the need for "better citation standards". "Tolkien Gateway...

” I could never read Tolkien. I always found him unreadable … I didn’t read [the books], and I normally don’t like people who have! The people who love...

Scottish novelist and poet, Naomi Mitchison: "I hope to give you soon two books, about which at least one criticism will be possible: that they are excessively...

with which he wore a green corduroy vest [waistcoat]. Always there was a vest, and nearly always a sports coat. He did not mind wearing a very broad necktie...

horrible swallowing noise in his throat. That is how he got his name, though he always called himself 'my precious.' The Hobbit, "Riddles in the Dark" — Listen...

in the wake of events in the books. The game draws inspiration from people, places and events only mentioned in the books, combining these with original...

reproduction! As research-students always discover, however long they take or carefully they work, there is always a rush at the end where the thesis must...

she began to instruct her two sons in the new faith.:23–24 Looking for a better place of worship, Mabel felt attracted by the Birmingham Oratory, where...

rhythms and tabulations which help them better prepare for future migrations." Scene 39 - "The wide-world is always around the Harfoots. They're vulnerable...

asked her three times for one of her tresses, but she always refused. Fëanor and Galadriel were always unfriends, both being the greatest Eldar in Valinor;...

However, the publications after the 1977 version of The Silmarillion give a better understanding of Tolkien's final vision and the necessity of an apocalyptic...

was still lost and Sauron's power immature. But Saruman said that it was better to watch and wait, and that the One Ring had long ago rolled from Anduin...

further north; Smaug's bones could be seen from the shore but the people were always fearful of it and no one dared go in the water to retrieve the gems or gold...

and the events of the Lonely Mountain. They both agreed that it would be better if the Necromancer were banished from the world altogether. The White Council...

to Gandalf, he said that he would have liked for things to be as they had always been in his life: to be a ruling Steward of a free city, ruling in peace...

cairn was made for him despite their haste, and after this deed the Gnomes always remembered him. The exiles wandered for a year or more among the mountains...

chart :) <BerenLazarus> Read about your "The Company They Keep". One thing I've always been interested in. Is there any evident that Tolkien read all seven novels...

too little or too much detail, just say so <Eru_PT> well, you have other books that analyze The Hobbit, such as The Annotated Hobbit by Douglas Anderson...