Link and Zelda are coming…to Netflix? By David Glenn   It was reported earlier this month that Netflix was working on a new fantasy show. They hinted at it being like Game of Thrones, but geared towards a family audience. The speculation right now is that they’re developing a series based off Nintendo’s game series The Legend of Zelda. Everyone ...

Recipes from the Elves: Lembas by Astrid Tuttle Winegar Lembas is a delicacy produced by Tolkien’s Elves. Tolkien describes them as having “the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside and inside was the colour of cream.” In Peter Jackson’s movie The Fellowship of the Ring, the Fellowship is ...

From Tristan to Iseult by John Evans You are a well darling- A cask of wine- A pitcher of thought- A container of dreams, Unending, Whose first sip toils out, The last nightmare’s rung, From weary lips, Once dry with longing. See how you sate me. See how you satisfy me, Love of a thousand verses. Beneath your shadow, Soft ...

Rachael Ashdown, Legendarium Reporter, went on an adventure across New Zealand and has been reporting on her experiences. During her travels she visited The Green Dragon Inn, located on the Hobbiton Movie Set and was able to talk with the Food and Beverage Manager for the Green Dragon Inn, Shayne Forrest. “The Green Dragon™ Inn featured in The Lord of ...

Thranduil’s Spice Pastries by Astrid Tuttle Winegar Bilbo’s innate resourcefulness rescues them all from the gruesome fate of becoming an arachnid’s entrée. Circumstances lead Bilbo and company into yet another stressful chapter wherein the dwarves are captured by the Wood-elves. Tolkien’s elves and dwarves generally do not get along, to put it rather mildly (a situation mostly remedied in The ...

Starting Your Kids Down the Yellowbrick Road by Henry L. Herz If you’re reading this post, you are more than likely a fan of science fiction and fantasy (SFF). You enjoy having your intellect stimulated and your imagination stretched. You love temporarily immersing yourself in Middle Earth, Oz, Narnia, Earthsea, Amber, Dune, The Federation, or The Foundation. Perhaps you enjoy ...

The High Book of the Grail, Perlesvaus – A Review by Josh Radke Arthurian literature and Grail lore has been a popular topic of literary movements and studies since the first stories were published in the late 12th century. Two of my favourite authors, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, were fanboys of this literature. Lewis paid brief homage to it ...

Tolkien Inspired Cooking Out of Mirkwood: Tauriel’s Venison by Astrid Tuttle Winegar Bilbo and company do not meet elves again until after their disastrous journey through the forest of Mirkwood. You’ll remember Beorn warning them not to drink or touch the water here and not to eat the wildlife. Well, of course, circumstances affect judgment, and one dwarf’s physical problems ...

Avalon Revisited by John Evans Around the lake- That emerald circle, Ringed by stones, The color of pitch, We waded through midnights, Silver passage, And strode together, Like two fleeting shades. Atop a ridge, Creased by roses, We watched the North Star, Dimly appear, Where she had lain hidden, Beneath broad clouds, Hurled from the shadow’s, Silent keeping. A field ...

“There and Back Again”: The Hobbit Semisesquicentennial by Samuel Schuldheisz It was seventy five years ago on September 1 in 1937 when J.R.R. Tolkien first published those indelible words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” And in honor of this most festive occasion, I thought of Tolkien’s own words regarding his seminal work. In a letter ...