News: Tolkien in the Media

The first Tolkien tapestry, in a series of 13, has been unveiled by Baillie Tolkien in a ceremony at the Tapestry Museum in Aubusson, France.

The famous Oxford pub, the Eagle and Child, is set for a revamp to expand the pub into offering accommodation for visitors.

Last week was our annual Tolkien Birthday Toast, celebrating the T125th birthday – or “twelfty-fifth” – of the late Professor J.R.R. Tolkien CBE. This is how the world celebrated.

BBC Radio 4 is set to broadcast Tolkien in Love – a dramatisation of Tolkien and Edith’s early relationship – this Saturday (19 August 2017) at 14:30.

Researchers in Brazil have named a newly-discovered amoeba after Gandalf, due to its resemblance with Gandalf’s hat.

Posted by on 29 July 2016

Recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien thought to have been lost have been rediscovered in the BBC archives and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 20.00 on Saturday 6 August.

The first Tolkien tapestry, in a series of 13, has been unveiled by Baillie Tolkien in a ceremony at the Tapestry Museum in Aubusson, France.

BBC Radio 4 is set to broadcast Tolkien in Love – a dramatisation of Tolkien and Edith’s early relationship – this Saturday (19 August 2017) at 14:30.

The famous Oxford pub, the Eagle and Child, is set for a revamp to expand the pub into offering accommodation for visitors.

Researchers in Brazil have named a newly-discovered amoeba after Gandalf, due to its resemblance with Gandalf’s hat.

Last week was our annual Tolkien Birthday Toast, celebrating the T125th birthday – or “twelfty-fifth” – of the late Professor J.R.R. Tolkien CBE. This is how the world celebrated.

Posted by on 29 July 2016

Recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien thought to have been lost have been rediscovered in the BBC archives and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 20.00 on Saturday 6 August.