Tag: Tolkien
Oxford and Wonderland
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Oxford-and-Wonderland.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/27/2007 Oxford University Museum of Natural History Oxford and Wonderland Transcript When one thinks of the world of children’s literature, both in the fictive world and the real world, England often comes to mind. From Peter Pan’s statue in Kensington Gardens in London, to […]
Tolkien Week, Symphonically
By any chance does this sound a little “hobbity” to you? It’s from the final movement, called “Hobbits,” of Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, which was inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and which premiered in 1988, some 30 years after the Ring books had been published.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/JRR-Tolkien.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/3/2001 J. R. R. Tolkien Transcript A recent poll of 25,000 avid readers in the United Kingdom voted The Lord of the Rings the Number One Book of the Century. Yet, it may surprise you to learn how narrowly this trilogy was saved from […]