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...

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...

Maths today involved Stem and Leaf tables. The name reminded me completely of an old tome I have from my teenage years, Tree and Leaf. Tree ...

I read today that JRR Tolkien's Oxford home, where he wrote Lord of the Rings, is up for sale. It's on the market at £4.5million. Va...

  On one of my many missions into the depths of my our attic I found this I'd stashed away. Its an old video cassette game for the 48K S...

Further finds from past moonbase squirreling include this box set of The Hobbit cassette tapes. Its a BBC audio book from back in the d...

I saw this modern magazine cover online - above - Locus - and was immediately reminded of a an old paperback I've had in my book co...

I drew this on a stone in 1980.

Continuing my theme of Seventies hard rock music I would like to share my love of a particular sub-genre, what you might call heraldic rock...

I am going through a second major Tolkien phase at the mo. The first was in my teens in the Seventies and the passion has never left me.  ...