Martin Simonson

In Tolkien's legendarium, trees and forests are one of the most salient leitmotifs. Who hasn't heard of the Two Trees of Valinor, the mysterious forested realm of Doriath in Beleriand, or Lothlórien, ...

A dozen Tolkien experts have been invited by Erabor Enterprises, a company dedicated to creating virtual reality games, to a future version of Tolkien's Middle-earth. The team's task is to populate th...

A cura di Martin Simonson

A mysterious exchange of objects governs the life of the inhabitants of Robledal, a small village nestled in the hills. One day, a local girl discovers something in the village which uncannily mixes r...

When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950's it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an ...