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Tolkien Tuesday: Tolkien, Landscape Archaeology, and the First Age of Middle-earth
In my book, Tolkien, Race and Cultural History, I have an entire chapter dedicated to “Visualising Middle-earth: Real and Imagined Material Cultures…
Aug 5
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Dimitra Fimi
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Allan Ahlberg's The Snail House
I was saddened to hear yesterday that beloved children’s author Allan Ahlberg passed away. Some of his best-known books were collaborations with his…
Aug 1
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Dimitra Fimi
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Allan Ahlberg's The Snail House
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July 2025
Beatrix Potter's "Mouse Tales" (1): Beatrix Potter, Miniatures, and Mice
Many of Beatrix Potter’s picturebooks present as protagonists what we may call collectively “hedgerow animals”, i.e., rabbits, squirrels, toads…
Jul 30
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Dimitra Fimi
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Beatrix Potter's "Mouse Tales" (1): Beatrix Potter, Miniatures, and Mice
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A rare Tolkien volume in Tim Sullivan's The Bookseller
I have enjoyed reading Tim Sullivan’s DS Cross book series, which started with The Dentist in 2020.
Jul 15
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Dimitra Fimi
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A rare Tolkien volume in Tim Sullivan's The Bookseller
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June 2025
J.R.R. Tolkien and James Joyce
It’s Bloomsday today, the date on which James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses is set.
Jun 16
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Dimitra Fimi
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J.R.R. Tolkien and James Joyce
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May 2025
Thing and Human Entanglements in Rumer Godden's The Dolls' House
As part of my research for the miniature worlds and little people book I am working on at the moment (tentatively called Miniature Fantasies, with a…
May 23
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Dimitra Fimi
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Thing and Human Entanglements in Rumer Godden's The Dolls' House
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Reflections on Tolkien's Unfinished Tales
Traffics and Discoveries, Actions and Reactions, Limits and Renewals
May 20
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Dimitra Fimi
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Reflections on Tolkien's Unfinished Tales
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A "fairy" garden in England: nature spirits, wild blossoms, and Tolkien's longing for home
As I was walking around my garden today, I went past our biggest hawthorn, which is so heavy with blossom right now that it seems like the branches are…
May 13
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Dimitra Fimi
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A "fairy" garden in England: nature spirits, wild blossoms, and Tolkien's longing for home
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Roald Dahl's The Minpins
Otherworlds of scale, nature's extremes, and material entanglements
May 6
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Dimitra Fimi
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Roald Dahl's The Minpins
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April 2025
Tolkien's earliest "fairy" poem: Wood-Sunshine
I’ve been dipping in and out of the recent 3-volume Collected Poems of J.
Apr 29
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Dimitra Fimi
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Tolkien's earliest "fairy" poem: Wood-Sunshine
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Miniature books in Children's Fantasy
The Borrowers and The Doll People
Apr 25
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Dimitra Fimi
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Miniature books in Children's Fantasy
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The Little Grey Men
Gnomes, scale, species, and posthumanism
Apr 18
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Dimitra Fimi
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The Little Grey Men
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