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Hobbit Day 2026 Giveaway!
Bilbo Baggins’ Eleventy-first Birthday Party. Credit: New Line Cinema
Happy Hobbit Day!
Today, September 22nd, is Hobbit Day, a holiday that fellow lovers of Middle-earth celebrate in honor of Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday!
Thinking abou...
The Magic of the Hobbit
Art by Tomas Duchek, courtesy of Wizards of the Coast
This past month, The Hobbit took a long-expected journey from the pages of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic children’s story to the cards of the popular and longstanding Magic: The Gathering! T...
If Gandalf Was Your Navigator on a Road Trip
Credit: New Line Cinema
If Gandalf was your navigator on a road trip, you’d get impatient with how long the trip was taking. But Gandalf would assure you that a wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to....
Where Is the Good Worth Fighting For in Rings of Power?
Credit: Amazon MGM Studios
It’s been so quiet on the Rings of Power front for so long that you might have thought that the third season of Amazon Prime’s fantasy epic was never coming.
But you would have, all of you, been deceived, for an...
The Fellowship of The Good, the Bad, and the Funny
A feature I used to do here at Jokien with Tolkien is a Reader Mailbag, where I answered questions from you, readers!
Today I’m resharing an updated answer to a question from several years ago about how different characters from literatur...
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Josh is the author of LIGHT AND HIGH BEAUTY (PRH, 2027) and writes about Middle-earth, faith, and pop culture in his often humorous, sometimes earnest, always genuine newsletter, "Jokien with Tolkien." Personal newsletter at @wonderingwhilewandering
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