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…
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.
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,…