Contributor: Troels Forchhammer

October 2015 October has been a busy month, and November isn’t shaping up to be much better, so my commentary is a bit reduced – and in some cases links to interesting articles are just given without commentary. These transactions are posted on my blog, Parma-kenta (Enquiry into the books) and on the Tolkien Society […]

August 2015 This month started with the very sad news of the sudden and unexpected death at 55 of Jef Murray, artist and writer of mythopoeic art, not least drawings and paintings inspired by Tolkien’s work, and very generously allowing me to use his Tolkien-inspired works to illustrate my posts on this blog.

June 2015 All the usual disclaimers apply about newness, completeness and relevance (or any other implication of responsibility) 🙂

September 2015 The Tolkienian month of September starts with the anniversary of Tolkien’s 1973 death on September 2nd. It’s a moment for reflection, but it also quickly gives way to the anticipation for the Tolkien Society Oxonmoot and the joint birthday of Bilbo and Frodo (not going into the discussion of proper calendric translation here) […]

July 2015 Issue no. sixty … This should, of course, have been the fifth anniversary issue, but due to my three-month hiatus last year, the fifth anniversary was actually well-past before I discovered it. I have – well, more or less 😉 – taken this month off from Scouting, which can probably be seen in […]

May 2015 As I have become more involved with Scouting and Guiding (it’s the same thing, anyway) both at the national and the international level, my obligations there are keeping me busy. There is no complaint from me because of this – I just wish to mention it to acknowledge that this blog, and my […]

October 2015 October has been a busy month, and November isn’t shaping up to be much better, so my commentary is a bit reduced – and in some cases links to interesting articles are just given without commentary. These transactions are posted on my blog, Parma-kenta (Enquiry into the books) and on the Tolkien Society […]

September 2015 The Tolkienian month of September starts with the anniversary of Tolkien’s 1973 death on September 2nd. It’s a moment for reflection, but it also quickly gives way to the anticipation for the Tolkien Society Oxonmoot and the joint birthday of Bilbo and Frodo (not going into the discussion of proper calendric translation here) […]

August 2015 This month started with the very sad news of the sudden and unexpected death at 55 of Jef Murray, artist and writer of mythopoeic art, not least drawings and paintings inspired by Tolkien’s work, and very generously allowing me to use his Tolkien-inspired works to illustrate my posts on this blog.

July 2015 Issue no. sixty … This should, of course, have been the fifth anniversary issue, but due to my three-month hiatus last year, the fifth anniversary was actually well-past before I discovered it. I have – well, more or less 😉 – taken this month off from Scouting, which can probably be seen in […]

June 2015 All the usual disclaimers apply about newness, completeness and relevance (or any other implication of responsibility) 🙂

May 2015 As I have become more involved with Scouting and Guiding (it’s the same thing, anyway) both at the national and the international level, my obligations there are keeping me busy. There is no complaint from me because of this – I just wish to mention it to acknowledge that this blog, and my […]

About the Author: Troels Forchhammer
“The love of Faery is the love of love” – J.R.R. TolkienBeing either among the last of the baby boomers or first of the generation X'ers, I have now grown to become a father of four, an active Scouter, a physicist working as test and quality engineer ... and of course an amateur Tolkienist.