Bill and Ted’s Bogus Onomastics
[caption id="attachment_16984" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Theo (Tyroe Muhafidin) gazes at a broken sword he holds in his hand, in a publicity photo from Amazon Studios' upcoming "The Rings of Power" series.[/caption] "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." —Phil Karlton I once...
Translation Conventions in Tolkien and Tolkien Adaptations
The past is a foreign country. —L. P. Hartley My corollary to this rather well-known quote is: "The past is a foreign language," and I like it well enough that sometimes I forget it was not the original quote. When watching films and television shows set in...
Prosody in Tolkien and The Rings of Power
J.R.R. Tolkien, it is fairly well known, was a philologist. The word is not now much used in academia. In contemporary terms a philologist might be called a historical or comparative linguist. However, philology was a broader discipline than that. In today's highly specialized world...
Exclusive: Orcs Are Back On The Menu + Social Shout Outs
EXCLUSIVE: Everyone seems to believe Orcs are extinct and were all destroyed in the First Age. When Bronwyn's village finds out that Orcs are back on the menu, boys, its a pretty big shock! EXCLUSIVE: Just like in the Hobbit and LOTR, there will be an...
