This excellent video is a fantastic primer for mythology behind J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. It kinda makes me want to read it again. Damn you, clever [...]
Kenneth G. Bennett is the author of the new sci-fi thriller, EXODUS 2022 (Booktrope Publishing, 419pp.) as well as the young adult novels, THE GAIA WARS and BATTLE FOR [...]
REVIEW SYNOPSIS: Despite a relentless pace and impressive effects, most notably bringing to life the impressive dragon at the heart of the tale, part two of Peter Jackson’s [...]
The LA Times is reporting that a biopic about author J.R.R. Tolkien is in the works. The biopic, tentatively titled Tolkien, looks at the author’s life with a focus on his [...]
The 2013 inductees to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame have just been announced. Congratulations to: H.R. Giger Judith Merril Joanna Russ David Bowie J.R.R. [...]
Garrett Calcaterra is author of the epic fantasy novel, Dreamwielder, released earlier this month by Diversion Books, and touted by steampunk legend James P. Blaylock as [...]
From the YouTube description: When Tolkien visited a friend in August of 1952 to retrieve a manuscript of The Lord of the Rings, he was shown a “tape recorder”. [...]
Through Sunday, the book Deconstructing Tolkien: A Fundamental Analysis of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit is available as a free Kindle download (for Kindle devices, [...]
J.R.R. Tolkien was a veteran of the 1st World War, something that I’d never examined all that closely, and for this week at the Kirkus Reviews blog, we’re [...]
This clever airline safety video looks like something out of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels, right down to the maps and furry feet. Perhaps [...]
A meme going around recently in the genre blogosphere is to name the five most influential books in your life, and how they changed your life. Some examples recently include [...]
I wish this was more than a news clip! Funny how Serkis mentions how people have mimicked the voice back to him in the intervening years sine Lord of the Rings. There’s [...]
I have oddly fond memories of this animated treatment of Tolkien’s classic. Ralph Bakshi’s presentation may be a truncation of the trilogy, but for its day, the [...]
The New Yorker chats with Ursula K. Le Guin about The Left Hand of Darkness. [via Locus Online] The Vietnam News interviews the head of the VFSF, biologist and SF writer Vu [...]