Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The Hobbit's Secondary Characters


The Hobbit or There and Back Again 
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002
First Published: 1937
Genre: Fantasy

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

Whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in his hobbit-hole in Bag End by Gandalf the wizard and a company of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon... 

Monday, January 28, 2013

Pride and Prejudice 200th Anniversary


From the words in the book...

to stunning movies and TV series...

to fashion...

and fun spinoffs...

There is no doubt Pride and Prejudice has bewitches us all body and soul.