A woodcutter who built his own hobbit house has revealed he’s never watched Lord of the Rings but nevertheless lives in it almost off-grid despite being nearly 90. Great-grandad Stuart Grant, 89, has split his time between the United Kingdom and Australia since 1959. In 1984, he moved into a 200-year-old cottage that he bought as a…
90-Year-Old Creative Woodcutter Built His Own Hobbit House and Has Been Living in It Off-Grid
What The Lord of the Rings Teaches us About ‘Being Woke’
We all like stories, or sometimes, using posher language: narratives. There is a good reason for that: “Narrative may be regarded as a primary act of mind,” said Professor Brian Cox in his introduction to the English National Curriculum that was being introduced into UK schools in 1988. More recently, Frank Wolcek in his book…
The Masculinity Message in ‘The Lord of the Rings’
Having read numbers of classic books, my friends are often surprised to hear that I had never read J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. “You have to read it,” numerous individuals—many of them males—exhort. This fall, several of my friends—also male—took the bull by the horns and gifted me a beautifully bound edition…
PHOTOS: Man Turns Cow Shed Into ‘Hobbit House’ That Looks Straight Out of Lord of the Rings
October 10, 2022
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Stuart Grant, 89, did not set out to create a “Hobbit House” to live in, but that’s exactly what he did. Interestingly, it all began in the early 1980s in Scotland. The retired woodcutter had temporarily moved into an old cow shed in his garden while renovating a house. No one knew his makeshift home was about…
The ‘Born to Fail’ Era of Entertainment
September 25, 2022
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Commentary “Go Woke, Go Broke” is a Western phenomenon where companies dip their toe into activist waters only to find that fringe ideologies do not represent their customer base. As a result, customers stop buying their products and the whole thing ends in awkward apologies and a shiny new marketing campaign. Think “men are bad,…
Amazon Says ‘Lord of the Rings’ Prequel Sets Prime Video Viewership Record
LOS ANGELES—Amazon.com Inc. said on Saturday that its pricey “Lord of the Rings” prequel series was watched by more than 25 million viewers around the world on its first day, a record debut for a Prime Video series. The company released the first two episodes of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”…
The Time That Is Given Us: Fandom, Myth, and the Narrative Power of Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’
There is a beautiful moment in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Return of the King” that emphasizes a key, reoccurring motif throughout the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy: In the deepest, darkest depths of despair, hope can still be found. After rescuing Frodo from the clutches of orcs in the Tower of Cirith Ungol, Samwise begins the…
Lord of the Wokes
Commentary I first read J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” in the summer of 1971-2. I’m a slow reader, always preferring to savour the language (especially when it’s written by a master craftsman and poet), so I took three or four days to reach the end. There’s always some sense of loss when you finish…
Cryptocurrency Named After ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Deemed a Trademark Violation
November 25, 2021
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A cryptocurrency named after “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy was successfully blocked by the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien on Tuesday after judges deemed it a trademark violation. The coin, called “JRR Token,” was set up by Florida-based developer Matthew Jensen and launched in August 2021. An accompanying website, jrrtoken.com, which later became thetokenofpower.com, was…
CCP Pulls Down Hollywood Blockbusters For Political Propaganda
April 14, 2021
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Chinese theaters suddenly became empty this month after Hollywood classic trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” was replaced with Communist Party propaganda movies. On April 1, the first day of the change, the box office revenue for five pre-cultural revolution films, which were first released before 1965, was zero. Three others had very limited income….
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