New John Garth Book: Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien

[Extollager]

This is the first full review I have seen. I've only started reading my copy.

Review: John Garth, The Worlds of JRR Tolkien (2020)

John Garth. The Worlds of JRR Tolkien: the places that inspired Middle-Earth . Frances Lincoln, London: UK, 2020. pp 208 John Garth is...

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[hitmouse]

Very interesting.
I caught a piece in the BBC a few years ago by a Cardiff University lecturer, walking round bits of the Welsh borders and correlating the geography with Tolkein. I wonder if that is available anywhere?

 

[Hugh]

I've just written a few lines about this in the January 2021 Reading Thread:

January 2021 Reading Thread.

Current reading includes a real page-turner by Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate; a rereading of David Williams's "Amish postapocalyptic" When the English Fall; another youngsters' book by John Bellairs, etc. I've never thought of Trollope as one of my Favorite Authors, way up there and all, but...

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[Jo Zebedee]

It’s a lovely looking book. When we’re open again I plan to get it in.

 

[hitmouse]

Inresting-looking new book for any Tolkein aficionados needing an excuse to stroll around East Yorkshire.