One Streamer to Rule Them All? Netflix’s deal to buy WB
Introduction On December 5th, it was announced that Netflix had secured a deal to purchase parts of Warner Bros. Discovery, with a total value of $82.7 billion. This has major implications for the overall film and television industry, and there are a lot of factors in play. For...
Irrevocable destruction or outright fraud? Selling single “Tolkien words”
Over at the Tolkien Collector's Guide site (TCG) a user going by the name Aelfwine recently made an astonishing post: there is a company claiming to sell single words "carefully removed" out of a handwritten Tolkien letter (and authenticated, obviously). In fact, the whole business...
NEWS: Hunt for Gollum characters hinted
Fans of adaptations of Tolkien's work are eating well. The news from Rings of Power is trickling in, Tales of the Shire is charming hearts with its cozy recreation of life in Bywater (PPP Plays, NotR), and even Paul Corfield Godfrey's operatic adaptation of Lord...
J.R.R. Tolkien: Professor of Anglo-Saxon
The Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon shall lecture and give instruction in the Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature, and may from time to time lecture and give instruction in the other Old Germanic Languages, especially Icelandic. —Council Regulations 24 of 2002 (amended 2012): Academic and Other...
