Tolkien’s home in Headington
Taken from the book ‘The Inklings of Oxford: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Their Friends’: “The Tolkiens moved to 76 Sandfield Road in Headington where they lived from 1953 until 1968.”
Impressionist Jamie Costa’s Gandalf vs Dumbledore Wizard Showdown
Enjoy Jamie Costa’s impression of Gandalf in his new short film. Dumbledore is performed by Brady E. Amundson. Jamie Costa is an impressionist who graduated from a university just miles from where I live here in Travelers Rest, SC.
Oxford’s Influential Inklings
About the profound influence Oxford’s Inklings had on the course of imaginative literature, Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski write: “By the time the last Inkling passed away, on the eve of the 21st century, the group had altered, in large or small measure, the course of imaginative literature (fantasy, allegory, mythopoeic tales)…”
JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait
Almost 90 years after JRR Tolkien translated the 11th-century poem Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings author’s version of the epic story is to be published for the first time in an edition which his son Christopher Tolkien says sees his father “enter[ing] into the imagined past” of the heroes…
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