Tolkien

The Hobbit (Cartoon)

8, August, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

Based on the 1937 novel of the same name by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit was originally made to be a television special. The film stands out through its vivid soundtrack, clever and tight script, wonderful voice acting, and terrific character…

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The Princess and Curdie

14, July, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

The Princess and Curdie continues the adventures of the previous novel The Princess and the Goblins. Curdie, the son of a miner, receives a quest – he must help Princess Irene to save her father, The King, from a sinister…

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The Princess and the Goblin

14, July, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

C.S. Lewis showed that he regarded George MacDonald as his “master,” while G.K. Chesterton stated that The Princess and the Goblin is a book that had “made a difference to my whole existence.” J.R.R. Tolkien was, in his turn, a…

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

6, July, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

Among the sources that influenced the creation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories one of the most important is the medieval epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Maybe surprisingly, this is not a story about how to kill a dragon…

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The Lord of the Rings

22, June, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

An epic fantasy novel for adults? For many serious readers such a creation would at least seem doubtful, if not downright ridiculous. But when it is the literary work of a respectable professor of Anglo-Saxon literature at Oxford University, the…

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The Hobbit

22, June, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

I read The Hobbit forty years ago when I was almost ten years old. At that age, with a limited reading experience, it was difficult for me to read continuously for many hours. But with the reading of this story,…

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Beowulf

28, March, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

The legend of Beowulf, sung by many bards for hundreds and hundreds of years, has its origins in the ancient times of the world before the Deluge. Brought in Britain by the Germanic tribes of those tumultuous Angles warriors, this…

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The Hobbit (Cartoon)

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