Tag Archives: The Hobbit

Fun With Stats 1: Lessons on Growth from 5 Years of Blogging

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

One of the critical advantages of WordPress is that it offers the blogger tools for calculating their impact. It is also one of its critical weaknesses as the analytics are limited to daily visitor and hit counts, as well as … Continue reading →

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A Brace of Tolkien Posts (125th Birthday Week)

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

It is the week of Tolkien’s 125th birthday. In honour of the Professor’s twelfthty-fifth year, I thought I would catalogue the Tolkien posts featured here on A Pilgrim in Narnia. I hope you enjoy the great selection of guest bloggers … Continue reading →

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Toasting Tolkien’s 125th Birthday #TolkienBirthdayToast

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

News release from the Tolkien Society. To celebrate Tolkien’s twelfthty-fifth (125th) birthday on 3 January 2017, the Tolkien Society invites all Tolkien fans to raise a toast to the Professor. After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The … Continue reading →

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Battling a Mountain of Neglects with J.R.R. Tolkien

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

In my morning reading of J.R.R. Tolkien, I came across this note to his publisher, Stanley Unwin: “I have treated you very badly. I think you would be disposed to forgive me, if you knew the true tale of my … Continue reading →

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Tolkien’s Road: A Film (Friday Feature)

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

A reader tipped me off to this little piece. While documentaries on J.R.R. Tolkien abound, and there are adaptations of his fiction, there have been few who have attempted to capture the story of the Mythmaker himself on film. Here … Continue reading →

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