B – Dimitra Fimi

Dr Dimitra Fimi – Surprises and Discoveries in the Drawings by Tolkien exhibition catalogue (1976)

Por |junio 7th, 2021|

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I have been going

through a number

of small pamphlets and booklets

in my Tolkien collection recently,

and have been posting about them

on Twitter:

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Dimitra Fimi – Reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ with my 6-and-a-half-year-old son: a journal

Por |diciembre 29th, 2020|

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One of the highlights of 2019 was

reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s

The Hobbit aloud

to my 6-and-a-half-year-old son

at bedtime. We started

towards the end of August 2019,

and finished it in just over a month.

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Dimitra Fimi – 75 reasons – Why should one read «The Hobbit»…

Por |noviembre 12th, 2019|

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Why should one read «The Hobbit»

before watching the film?

Because, judging by the trailers and interviews,

the Hobbit film adaptation will be presented

as a coherent ‘prequel’ to «The Lord of the Rings» films.

But the book was no such thing!

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Dimitra Fimi – After 150 years, we still haven’t solved the puzzle of Alice in Wonderland

Por |junio 24th, 2019|

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Alice is turning 150 this year,

yet we still love

to read about (or watch)

this curious little girl’s

adventures in Wonderland

again and again.

There’s something about this book

that has made it a timeless classic,

a fascinating story which has reached

far beyond the children

of the mid-19th century,

for whom it was first written.

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Dimitra Fimi – J.R.R. Tolkien’s Christmas letters to his children bring echoes of Middle-earth to the North Pole

Por |enero 7th, 2018|

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Like parents the world over,

J.R.R. Tolkien dedicated considerable time and effort

to making Christmas a joyful time for his young children.

Yet this was a man whose rich imagination brought to life

an entire world with thousands of years of legendary history;

described different orders of creatures, wars and battles;

even invented languages.

So inevitably, his family traditions were something rather special. […]

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Dimitra Fimi & Andrew Higgins – A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

Por |abril 8th, 2016|

In «A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages,»

edited by myself [Dimitra Fimi] and Andrew Higgins,

we present Tolkien’s own reflections on his language invention. […]

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Dimitra Fimi – Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium

Por |septiembre 26th, 2015|

Dimitra Fimi

– Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium

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B – Dr. Dimitra Fimi – Academic and writer

Por |junio 1st, 2015|

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