Tag Archives: Tolkien

The Top New Posts of 2020 on A Pilgrim in Narnia

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Brenton Dickieson

2020 was the busiest year ever on A Pilgrim in Narnia! And by a pretty big margin. In 2020, we topped 1,000 posts, blew past our 1,000,000th page view, and passed 200,000 hits in a single year for the first … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links, Reviews, Throwback Thursdays | Tagged Anne’s House of Dreams, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Tolkien, fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Keats, L.M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Narnia, Rainbow Valley, Ransom Cycle, SF, The Inklings, The MaudCast, The Problem of Susan, The Screwtape Letters, Tolkien, Walter Hooper | Leave a comment

My Discussion with Diana Glyer about the Tolkien Biopic on William O’Flaherty’s All About Jack Podcast

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

I have recently had the opportunity to be part of a few different dialogues about the Tolkien biopic. I wrote a review for Forefront, where I talked about the Problem of Beauty and some of the struggles that Christian artists have in … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links | Tagged biopic, biopics, C.S. Lewis, Diana Pavlac Glyer, Dome Karukoski, film adaptation, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien Movie, William O'Flaherty | 45 Comments

The Tolkien Film and the Problem of Beauty: Guest Blog at the Forefront Festival

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

I was very much struck by the recently released Tolkien biopic and tried to capture a few of my thoughts about it in my note from last week. I also received an invitation from the Forefront Festival blog to share … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged art, biopics, faith, J.R.R. Tolkien, love, theology and art, Tolkien | 58 Comments

My Defiant Appreciation of the Biopic Tolkien

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

I live on the edge of the continent, on a small island in the North Atlantic. This “lonely island” I call home is more like Hobbiton than the majestic and magical sanctuary of Tol Eressëa of J.R.R. Tolkien’s early mythology. … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Reviews | Tagged Anne of Green Gables, art, biopics, film adaptation, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lily Collins, Lord of the Rings, Madeleine L'Engle, mythology, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Jackson, Prince Edward Island, Rocketman, The Hobbit, Tolkien, Tolkien and the Great War | 69 Comments

Getting Ready for TOLKIEN: John Garth and Other Resources

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

I don’t know if it is rumour or just the coolness of the social media age, but über Tolkien fan Stephen Colbert has been sent a copy of John Garth’s Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, News & Links | Tagged Derek Jacobi, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Garth, Lily Collins, Lord of the Rings, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Jackson, TCBS, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, Tolkien and the Great War, WWI | 39 Comments

TOLKIEN Official Trailer: Tentative Hope

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

I’m actually starting to get excited about this. Coming from a place of deep skepticism, I am a bit of a late adopter to the idea of this film. Or most any biopic, actually, if I know the main characters. … Continue reading →

TOLKIEN, the Teaser Trailer: A New Biopic by Fox Searchlight (Friday Feature)

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

There has been buzz about this for a few months now, and really years of wondering and wandering on Hollywood-quality biopic of Tolkien. Fox Searchlight has picked up the idea and has finally announced a release date of May 10th. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Friday, News & Links | Tagged J.R.R. Tolkien, TCBS, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, WWI | 22 Comments

C.S. Lewis And J.R.R. Tolkien: The Unpayable Debt of Writing Friends (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

This year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own vault or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Writing, Fictional Worlds, Lewis Biography, Throwback Thursdays | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Conversion, fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, Lord of the Rings, Out of the Silent Planet, publishing dreams, The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit, Tolkien, writing | 12 Comments

Tolkien’s Dickensian Dreams

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Originally posted on A Tolkienist's Perspective:
Dickens’ short story that inspired a Tolkien chapter This is somewhat a Tolkien paper I had written a while back, with the expressed intention to publish it one day. When that day never seemed to…

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Bilbo, Charles Dickens, Fellowship of the Ring, intertextuality, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Pickwick Papers, Tolkien | 5 Comments

A Small Circle of Blog Friends

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

As we slide into this New Year, I thought I would share some of the other bloggers and websites I’m networked with. Thanks to WordPress stats, I can track these things pretty easily. Here is my small circle of blog … Continue reading →