Amazon.com: Understanding Middle-earth: Essays on Tolkien.

Find various essays and articles on Tolkien, role playing games, and Tolkien RPG's from many different authors here. Some authors include: Professor Chris Seeman, Michael Martinez, Erik Tracy, Neville 'Osric' Percy, Hawke, Shane Henry, and others.

Beowulf vs Tom Bombadil So, there I was, surrounded by Tolkien fans, and we were supposed to be discussing Tom Bombadil at last night’s meeting of the Inklings Roundtable of Houston. Only I had “Beowulf” on the brain and I had forgotten that Bombadil was the topic on the table.

There is a baseball player named Michael Martinez (he plays for the Philadelphia Phillies) who is more well-known than I am, but he only achieved that status a couple of years ago. It seems more people follow baseball than follow Tolkien. Another Michael Martinez is a drummer in a popular band (Allstar Weekend). He may be more famous than me.

My Tolkien Newsgroups FAQ includes a consensus statement and a short summary of the debate. Michael Martinez has written a firmly pro-wing essay. And the Encyclopedia of Arda includes a balanced but somewhat anti-wing discussion.

Read Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-Earth, by Michael Martinez in HTML for FREE. Also available in PDF, ePub and Kindle formats. HTML version, page 2.

Michael Martinez is the founder of the Xenite.Org network and SF-Fandom. He is also the author of two books and one eBook on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth: Visualizing Middle-earth, Understanding Middle-earth: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth, 3rd Edition. Learn more about Michael at Michael-Martinez.com.

Publication of The Art of the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. 16-20 Aug 2012: The Tolkien Society hosts “The Return of the Ring” conference in honour of the 75th anniversary of The Hobbit. Michael Tolkien was a guest speaker. 14 December 2012.

The Suite101 essays and other essays Michael has written for various Web sites have been popular enough to justify publishing two collections: Visualizing Middle-earth and Understanding Middle-earth: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Both books continue to make small but steady sales several years after publication.

Launched in mid-2011, the Middle-earth blog at Xenite.Org has become one of the Web’s most popular Tolkien fan sites. Xenite founder Michael Martinez has published several books about Tolkien’s Middle-earth and he is well-known. His articles about Tolkien and Middle-earth have been published on many Websites and quoted in newspapers and.

There are many books about J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Our expert contributor, Michael Martinez, recommends the 10 he feels are most important for fans to read. Every serious Tolkien fan has his or her own list of favorite books about the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Through the decades, hundreds of authors have written scholarly research.

Michael Martinez essays at Middle-earth is the most extensive authorized archive of Michael’s online essays about Tolkien and Middle-earth. While many people dispute some or all of Michael’s work, these essays have been cited by Tolkien fan fiction authors and researchers around the world.

Michael Martinez has written a firmly pro-wing essay. And the Encyclopedia of Arda includes a balanced but somewhat anti-wing discussion. Finally, it may be interesting to search the Google Groups archive for the discussions that these essays inspired; you can find those threads in this list of search results (in reverse chronological order).