The last Tolkien Tuesday of the year is here, and December is also ending. But before we say goodbye to this month, I would like to sum up the first read-along I hosted this month: we read J. R. R. Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas. I was really looking forwards to organizing a book discussion…
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Christmas in Fangorn
Can you feel the special atmosphere in the air? Can you smell those familiar perfumes that bring memories? Can you see all those beautiful decorations? It is almost Christmas time! Yey! Christmas is almost here, and in Books from Fangorn, we are preparing for Christmas and we are inviting you to join the celebrations! For…
Spooky Season’s Stories To Read and Comment • Historias de Halloween Para Leer Y Comentar – #SpookyMonstrousReading
✶⋆ English Version “This is Halloween, this is Halloween Pumpkins scream in the dead of night This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat ’til the neighbors gonna die of fright It’s our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween”. Spooky Season is here! Some of you might be enjoying the chill Autumn…
The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob
At Oxonmoot 2020, I gave a talk entitled “The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob”. It aimed at analysing two of the most less considered female characters in Tolkien’s works and their possible reading from a feminist perspective. This was the abstract of my talk: “When…
Bibliographics / Librografías
✶⋆ English Version July is almost over, but not yet. On Instagram, I have been sharing some infographics I have made with information about different authors and their respective work. This type of post had the main aim to generate more discussion over literature. I’m very glad by the welcoming results and interactions that these graphics…
Celebrating World Art Day 2021 With Literature and Art
Did you know that today, April 15th, is World Art Day? I am writing this post to celebrate this special day. Art can be present in our daily lives in different forms: in what we look at, how we dress, in the decorative objects that might be part of our house. Art is also straightly…
Fangornmoot 2021
Welcome to the meeting in Fangorn Forest! Dwarf, Elf, Human, Hobbit or Wizard, all creatures are invited to enjoy J. R. R. Tolkien’s works together! ❈ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐭? Fangornmoot is an online event hosted by Books from Fangorn. It aims to join people all over the world to enjoy and share their passion for…
Pride and Prejudice Anniversary: Elizabeth Bennet and Nature in the novel and Wright’s 2005 adaptation
On this day, 28 of January, 208 years ago Jane Austen published for the first time her well-known novel Pride and Prejudice. Nowadays, you can find numerous adaptations, movies, series and even novels. I personally dislike romance, I tried reading a modern adaptation of this book, Bridget Jone’s Diary, I never finished it. I was…
“The Last Man”: Apocalyptic Late XXI Century – A Commentary
Happy 2021! This is the first blog post of the year, we could not have left January without an entry after reading a very interesting novel, don’t you think? Covid is still lurking out there but we are all taking care. And is not as hopeless as some famous authors had imagined the XX century…
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 70th Anniversary- A Gender Overview in Narnia
Today, 16th of October, the classic children’s novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe celebrates its 70th anniversary. The novel written by C. S. Lewis was published in 1950. Originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes, to whom undoubtedly we own the images we have when we imagine Narnia. Happy Narnia Day! I remember reading The…