Send us a text While moving recently, to a fourth-floor apartment with no elevator, I had to carefully evaluate which book — including which Tolkien books — are worth boxing, lifting and moving and keeping in the face of space restrictions and physical exhaustion. What's on your Tolkien bookshelf or what's in your Tolkien library? We take a look at the essential books that make up the core, the books that sit just outside the inner circle and then a lot of other books that fill out your shelf...
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Send us a text While moving recently, to a fourth-floor apartment with no elevator, I had to carefully evaluate which book — including which Tolkien books — are worth boxing, lifting and moving and keeping in the face of space restrictions and physical exhaustion. What's on your Tolkien bookshelf or what's in your Tolkien library? We take a look at the essential books that make up the core, the books that sit just outside the inner circle and then a lot of other books that fill out your shelf...
The two mysterious blue wizards of Tolkien's legendarium
The Tolkien Podcast
31 minutes
8 months ago
The two mysterious blue wizards of Tolkien's legendarium
Send us a text Tolkien's Middle-earth included wizards, from nearly the start of THE HOBBIT published in 1937. From there The Professor included wizards Gandalf the Grey, and Radagast the Brown woven throughout his tale. When THE LORD OF THE RINGS was published Saruman the White was added to the wizard ranks and the mystery expanded from there. Deep in Tolkien's other writings were fragments and clues about the two mysterious blue wizards, who never entered into the narrative directly except...
The Tolkien Podcast
Send us a text While moving recently, to a fourth-floor apartment with no elevator, I had to carefully evaluate which book — including which Tolkien books — are worth boxing, lifting and moving and keeping in the face of space restrictions and physical exhaustion. What's on your Tolkien bookshelf or what's in your Tolkien library? We take a look at the essential books that make up the core, the books that sit just outside the inner circle and then a lot of other books that fill out your shelf...
