Because it’s Friday. And it’s The Hobbit.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Book Covers
After many, many hours, I’ve finally finished these book covers.
Beautiful!
(via seeherwrite)
J.R.R. Tolkien
3 January 1982 - 2 September 1973
Thank you for Lord of the Rings!
Thank you indeed!
(Source: middle-earth-appreciation, via booklover)
Did Tolkien moonlight at Hallmark? These valentines practically write themselves. Give your favorite Tolkien fan a little Valentine’s Day love with these messages.
Happy Twelvetieth birthday to J.R.R. Tolkien! Have a Tolkien extravaganza today, with movies, books, and more!
Here’s a list to get you started.
Summer means lots of traveling, and we’ve got just the book to facilitate an enlightening journey up for grabs in this week’s Win-a-Book Wednesday sweepstakes. Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler, with words of wisdom from authors, celebrities and famous tumbleweeds added to the mix.
Enter now for your chance to win a copy of The Tao of Travel HERE!
Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Life on the Road enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ Favorite Places.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected:
Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien
Samuel Johnson Eudora Welty
Evelyn Waugh Isak Dinesen
Charles Dickens James Baldwin
Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer
Mark Twain Anton Chekhov
Bruce Chatwin John McPhee
Freya Stark Peter Matthiessen
Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway
The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.
Congratulations to Kate from New Jersey, winner of last week’s giveaway My Misadventures As a Teenage Rock Star.
As many of you J.R.R. Tolkien fans already know, today is March 25th aka Tolkien Reading Day! Established by the Tolkien Society in 2003, this day is aimed toward encouraging reading the works of Tolkien and the use of his works in education and library groups. Fun fact: the date of March 25th was chosen to honor the fall of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings (but you, being an avid LOTR fan, already knew that, didn’t you?).
What are we doing to celebrate this veritable holiday? Giving away Tolkien books to you, of course! From now until Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 11:59 PM ET, you can enter for a chance to win 1 of 10 HMH Tolkien Reading Day Prize Packs!
Ten lucky winners will receive one copy of THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRÚN, one copy of THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN, signed by illustrator Alan Lee, and one copy of THE LORD OF THE RINGS GOLLUM: HOW WE MADE MOVIE MAGIC by Andy Serkis, signed by Andy Serkis (this book is no longer in print, so make sure you enter our sweepstakes to get your own copy!).
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND TO ENTER NOW!
Good luck to all entrants!
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”- J.R.R. Tolkien
