J.R.R. Tolkien 
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
9/15/2022
"I'm Not Racist, I'm Just Mad Amazon is Destroying Tolkien's Middle Earth with Black Hobbits"
by Mary Rambaran-Olm
Viewer complaints that Amazon Prime has defiled the author's fantasy vision with "wokeness" ignore the historical diversity of the medieval society on which Tolkien based his works.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
9/7/2022
"Rings of Power" Speaks to a War-Hungry Audience
by Daniel Bessner
Inspired by Tolkien's experiences in the Great War, his fantasy books have been taken as allegories for the fight against Nazism, the Cold War, and the War on Terror. The new series reflects the anxieties of an American empire with neither a clear enemy nor the imagination to abandon militarism.
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SOURCE: USA Today
3/24/19
Tolkien Fans: Here's your chance to become part of J.R.R. Tolkien's oral history
Each interview will be transcribed and available to search by keywords. Names will be kept private but ages and hometowns will be available.
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SOURCE: Tablet Magazine
8-19-13
Yiddish-speaking wizards and dragons invade the Shire in ‘Der Hobit’
For one of his first translation projects after his retirement, Barry Goldstein, a former computer programmer, found an empty table at his local Starbucks in Boston and settled in to work on the “Treebeard” chapter from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. But Goldstein soon realized that he needed something more sizable to occupy his time: 95,022 words later, he had translated the entire text of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Ring series, into Yiddish.Only a little more than 130 copies of Goldstein’s translation have sold since it was released in December. But as Goldstein tells it, he always knew Der Hobit wouldn’t be a best-seller, and the sales were still double his original two-figure estimate.