Happy Birthday to Pauline Baynes! (September 9, 1922 – August 1, 2008) English artist and illustrator Pauline Baynes was born in Hove, Sussex, England on September 9th. She was a prolific book illustrator and her accomplishments include many scenes from stories by both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Baynes worked directly with Tolkien to create… Continue reading Drawing Tolkien
March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day! Per the Tolkien Society, the Tolkien Reading Day theme for 2018 is “Home and Hearth: the many ways of being a Hobbit”. On that note, here is an excerpt from Bilbo’s walking song: The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far… Continue reading Tolkien Reading Day 2018
What do you picture when you think of dragons? Fire-breathers? Winged-lizards? Dragons are common in fantasy, whether it’s the traditional kind or a unique interpretation. In recent literature, such as Eragon and Harry Potter, dragons are often depicted as fire-spewing reptiles, with both legs and wings. The origin of this type of dragon was a… Continue reading Forgotten Dragons
March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day and I’m thrilled to share the festivities with you! Today is a day to commemorate the written works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Why March 25th? In Middle-earth, March 25th was the day Frodo destroyed the One Ring in the fiery pit of Mount Doom. A great day for merrymaking! Per… Continue reading Tolkien Reading Day 2016
What do you think about mixing different styles of writing? About adding songs and poetry into a fictional book? Sometimes it feels as though every new YA novel is using poetry epigraphs at the start of each chapter. Authors have actually been mixing it up this way for centuries! Even Shakespeare frequently used poetry in… Continue reading Mixed Prose
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