A few snaps of my home-made Ringwraith and his dark charger ( borrowed from Sindy!). It was fun being with them but mordor getting away!  E...

My latest toy bash is a go at a Knickerbocker Ringwraith. This wraith has wide hips, so I opted for an old Xena as the base figure. Mid-way,...

I'm researching Knickerbocker's Lord of the Rings figures at the moment with a future project in mind. Looking at their Gollum figur...

  Being in the beautiful Peak district National Park is putting me in mind for all things Tolkien. The woods, the valleys, the rocky edifice...

On a frosty day trip to the Peak town of Buxton nestled betwixt snowy hills the Missus and me mooched among the many charity shops. Prices o...

In 1980/81 I worked and lived on an RSPB nature reserve, where in the winter evenings I listened to the BBC radio serial of Lord of the Ring...

Visiting my  girlfriend back in 1979, (now my Wife) in her home country of West Germany, I was fascinated, among other things, by her admira...

I was in two minds about The Rings of Power on Amazon. Episode 1 was an ice-breaker I guess. We had come to expect so much after Peter Jacks...

The Power of the Rings is Amazon's new big bash at serializing Tolkien. It comes as another platform launches House of the Dragon so the...

 Ah, those wonderful Athena Tolkien posters! Lord, how I adored them back in the Seventies. My flat walls were plastered with them. I had a ...

Just some final oddments from our Scottish driving tour before I sign off this photo album. I saw this moss-festooned gravestone with i...

If you've listened to my latest radio story Sarge: the Golden Astronauts you'll know I've got the underworld on my mind!  Loo...

Myths and legends often describe the war between Good and Evil. At their heart is usually a central protagonist and antagonist around which...

Back in 1981 I lived on an RSPB Bird Reserve, the Ouse Washes, in the English Fens. For many reasons it was one of the best years of my l...