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12 hours ago · J. R. R. Tolkien's vision Further information: Tolkien and the medieval Setting-based fiction invites immersion and connection among its readers. A Tolkien fan's impression of Dol Guldur, a stronghold of the Necromancer J. R. R. Tolkien was a medievalist and a philologist as well as an author. He speaks in his lecture "On Fairy-Stories" of sub-creation, making a secondary world that is in some ...
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12 hours ago · Tolkien's writing had such influence that in the 1960s and afterwards, elves speaking an elvish language similar to those in Tolkien's novels became staple non-human characters in high fantasy works and in fantasy role-playing games. Tolkien also appears to be the first author to have introduced the notion that elves are immortal.
12 hours ago · Definition A political map of Britain c. 650 (the names are in modern English) The word pagan is a Latin pejorative term that was used by Gentile Christianity (also: Pagan Christianity) in Anglo-Saxon England to designate non-Christians. In Old English, the vernacular language of Anglo-Saxon England, the equivalent term was hæðen ("heathen"), a word that was cognate to the Old Norse heiðinn ...
12 hours ago · Early life and education The National Institute of Dramatic Art in Kensington, New South Wales, where Blanchett studied Catherine Elise Blanchett was born on 14 May 1969 in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe. Her Australian mother, June (née Gamble), was a property developer and teacher; and her American father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett Jr., a Texas native, was a United States Navy Chief Petty ...
12 hours ago · Life Main article: Life of William Shakespeare Early life John Shakespeare's house, believed to be Shakespeare's birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover (glove-maker) originally from Snitterfield in Warwickshire, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning family. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he ...
12 hours ago · 1937 in literature – John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, or There and Back Again; Georges Bernanos's Journal d'un Curé de Campagne (The Diary of a Country Priest); Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker; Lao She's Rickshaw Boy; Agatha Christie's Dumb Witness, Death on the Nile, and Murder in the Mews.
12 hours ago · Vingilot – The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien, 1977; HMS Vortex – destroyer in The Admiral by Warren Tute, 1963; The Walrus – Flint's pirate ship in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883; USS Walrus – submarine in Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach Jr., 1955
