Nadia Turner is an artist from Australia, whose blog Wayward Harper is definitely worth checking out. It is all sorts of elvish, magical, ...

Hello and well-met, fellow traveler, and happy Durin's Day! I predict that Friday, the fourteenth of December, is the first day of th...

"Monsters, left" by Johanna Öst It's been almost two years since the last "Fairy-Tale Illustrator" post, whic...

"On a withered branch  a crow has settled--  autumn nightfall."   --Matsuo Basho Ah, delightful autumn has arrived, ...

I had the great fortune to watch this film the other day; it is a wonderful inversion of "The Hobbit", in that three rather hobbit...

Oh my, what a wonderful view! I could sit there all summer, eating fresh-baked bread with honey and strawberries, drinking tea in the mornin...

Mrs. Meadows and I watched an interesting program on PBS this morning: "Wild Balkans", which is part of the Nature series. It is ...

English Russia has posted some wonderful, homey illustrations from a Soviet-era copy of The Hobbit. I especially love this quote from the ...

Hello! What, is it Spring already? Well, here's the new Welcome Mat: Welcome, Spring!

Well, fair autumn seems to have given way to early winter, at least in my part of the Shire. Please enjoy our new welcome mat, and break out...

. Oh, how I wish Ivan Bilibin had illustrated that most wonderful of books, The Hobbit ! Add a grey robe and peaked hat to the figure above,...

. Welcome back, friends! According to Hob's Calendar , it is now quellë , late autumn, the time when cold weather arrives... and yet, I&...

. "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." Excellent Hobbit birthday site .

. "It must be potent wine to make a wood-elf drowsy; but this wine, it would seem, was the heady vintage of the great gardens of Dorwi...

. While these marvelous socks are touted as a "Rivendell" sock pattern, I think they would be well-received and quite at home amon...

. "Companies of the Wood-elves, sometimes with the king at their head, would from time to time ride out to hunt, or to other business i...

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. "Inside the passages were lit with red torch-light, and the elf-guards sang as they marched along the twisting, crossing, and echoing...

. Well! What's happened to me?! I feel as if I cracked my head on a low-hanging rock, whilst being carried at full run through an underg...

Image source The moon was shining in a broad silver crescent. He held up the map and the white light shone through it. "What is this?&q...

"Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to liste...

. Music is such an essential part of The Hobbit -- and such a highly personal part of reading and enjoying The Hobbit . I feel I would be r...

. O! What are you doing, And where are you going? Your ponies need shoeing! The river is flowing! O! tra-la-la-lally here down in the valley...

. So I obviously couldn't let it rest. Here's a great resource page for "The Fox Went Out", which includes complete lyric...

. Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone; For many a year he had gnawed it near, For meat was hard to...