Q: Why Didn’t Dwarves Obsess Over Returning To The Ered Lindon?

ANSWER: I received this question from a reader in May 2025 (slightly reformatted to improve readability):

I have been re-reading information on the Dwarves, in particular Durin’s Folk. Like a bolt out of the blue this one thing has struck me.

Why didn’t the Dwarves obsess over returning to their halls in the Grey Mountains as […]

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-didnt-dwarves-obsess-over-returning-to-the-grey-mountains/

Tous les jours, on vous raconte la science fiction, l'horreur et la fantasy sur le site Actusf !
Parmi les infos du jour :
- C'est aujourd'hui que sort le nouveau film de SF de Steven Spielberg !
- On a trouvé une traduction inédite signée Tolkien...
- Et puis on parle de magie avec Alan Moore !

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Une traduction signée Tolkien a été retrouvée dans les archives de l’université d’Oxford...

On vous raconte tout ça : https://buff.ly/GJ4MSYh

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Why do so many illustrators make hobbits look like children? They are short adults with hairy feet. For a better illustration, see a Soviet view of hobbits here:
https://khanya.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/a-soviet-view-of-hobbits/
#Inklings #JRRTolkien
A Soviet view of hobbits

A Russian edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The hobbit has this illustration showing Bilbo Baggins and the dragon Smaug. You can see more illustrations from this edition at this web site. It’…

Khanya

I’m not sure how to classify this article. I’ve added it to the Trivia category but it’s not really trivia. And the article was inspired by a question I received from a reader in June 2025:

Hello, Michael!

Do you know exactly how to pronounce the name ‘Éowyn’? According to the LotR’s Appendix E, éo- sounds like “eh-ah” with the “ah” just barely pronounced, while y is the modified u,nwhich […]

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/how-to-pronounce-names-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/

« No Prisoners! », 1990

by Christos Achilleos (British artist, 1947-2021)
European box cover art for "J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan" videogame by Mirrorsoft, PSS, 1991

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J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/06/j-r-r-tolkien-on-fairy-stories/

Ein Stamperl Tusche-Trunk zum Abschied von Mæster #JohnBlanche, würdiger Erbe des Punks von Dürer und Breughel.

Hoffe, Du bist Anfang der Woche gut ›rüber‹ bekommen. 🕯️ 🖤

Hast wie wenige mein Feeling für Genre-Fantasy geprägt, als wüster Zeichner, famoser Colorist, virtuoser Figurengestalter.

Hier etwas, wofür Du nicht sooo bekannst warst: #JRRTolkien-Illustration von 1979, »The Fall von Gondolin«. Skulpturen auf’m Turmdach machen voll gute Laune.

https://gothicpunk.tumblr.com/post/180166021790/atomic-chronoscaph-fall-of-gondolin-art-by-john

gothic punk

Fall of Gondolin - art by John Blanche (1979)

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Voici les trois infos du jour à retenir :
- On a le teaser de la saison 3 de Silo, notre série de SF parano préférée !
- Les Anneaux de Pouvoir se projettent déjà sur la saison 4 !
- Le film Kraken arrive bientôt. Et ça va être bien !

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