The third and final instalment in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit is out in cinemas this month and is set to be the best yet, getting a whopping 9.5/10 review on IMDB. For those of you who haven’t read the book, it must have been terrible waiting so long for the first and second films only to be left on cliff-hangers both times! Our word for the week is Hobbit, coined by Tolkien in 1937 despite appearing in a peculiar list of supernatural creatures penned by Michael Aislabie Denham over 40 years earlier although it is probable that Tolkien never saw this. Like many other words from folklore and fantasy, Hobbit is in the dictionary and ...
This week’s Word for Wednesday is a noun most of us will use every day. Unfortunately we can’t see it, hear it or touch it. It is in fact a phenomenon so incredibly abstract that it can easily slip out of our grasp. It seems to have the ability to bend and stretch, to fleet and vanish. Tolkien once wrote a wonderful riddle to which our word is the answer: This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Time is constantly around us but nowhere to be seen. It is a system so deeply ingrained in our psyche that it is almost impossible to conceive a state of ...
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