Useless knowledge for Tolkien fans – the book for fans of Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit
Fantasy as we know it today would be absolutely unthinkable without the works of JRR Tolkien. The British writer not only invented the world of Middle-earth, but also had a significant influence on what we understand by elves, dwarves and orcs today. With his masterpiece Lord of the Rings, he also made fantasy socially acceptable and accessible to a wide audience. In addition to the books, the great film adaptations by Peter Jackson certainly also played a role.
If you want to delve deeper into the world of Middle-earth, take a look at the Silmarillion. There you will find countless background stories and facts about the world created by Tolkien. But if that is too boring for you, we have a reading tip for you: Useless knowledge for Tolkien fans! This new book from Riva Verlag contains 192 pages of various facts about the books, films and life of JRR Tolkien.
Useless knowledge for Tolkien fans
For example, did you know that The Lord of the Rings is around 480,000 words long and Tolkien painted the cover of the first edition of The Hobbit himself? In addition to such historical facts, there are also all sorts of anecdotes to make you smile. Frodo fell to the ground exactly 39 times in the three films of Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson once bought 40,000 toy knights to use in planning the battle of Helm’s Deep.
Useless knowledge for Tolkien fans – the book for fans of Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit
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But there are also a number of fun and interesting facts about Tolkien himself. For the rest of his life he refused to be addressed with his professor title and wrote at the Silmarillion for a total of 60 years. However, most fans know that he only wrote most of his stories to use his self-invented languages.
Useless knowledge for Tolkien fans does not tell a story and is literary about as demanding as a dime novel. Nevertheless, we had a lot of fun reading it and regularly burst out laughing. Like when we found out that Aragorn and Arwen are related (Aragorn descends from Arwen’s uncle Elros). Or that there is a novel called The Sword of Shannara, which is practically a one-to-one copy of Lord of the Rings – including the characters and their motifs. On the other hand, it goes without saying that the Lord of the Rings is the most popular book in Germany, ahead of the Bible.
So if you want to shine in future conversations with as many “Do you know that …” as possible, you should definitely Useless knowledge for Tolkien fans read. The book is available from Riva Verlag and costs EUR 12.00.
We are giving away useless knowledge for Tolkien fans
Or you can take the opportunity and grab one of our copies that Riva Verlag has made available to us for a raffle. If you want to have the chance to get one of the three copies, you have to do the following:
- Post us your favorite useless fact about Tolkien, Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit in the comments below the article!
At the end (Thursday, August 18, 11:59 p.m.) we will draw the three lucky winners from all the comments. If you win, we will contact you via private message to exchange the necessary shipping address. Much luck!
You can find our general competition conditions here.
As always, legal recourse is excluded and a cash payment of the prizes is not possible.
Want more useless knowledge?
If you are not just a Tolkien fan, but generally enjoy funny anecdotes and useless knowledge, there are of course many other such books on a wide variety of topics. Here we have a few for you:
Of course there are many, many more books that we do not want to list them all. There is hardly a topic on which there is no hodgepodge of useless knowledge. If, on the other hand, you would rather live out your passion for Lord of the Rings and Co., take a look at our article about it the full roar of Lord of the Rings.
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