Resources for students of Tolkien
Are you looking for a novel that will keep your students engaged and excited to learn? Look no further than The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien! This classic fantasy novel tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who embarks on an epic journey to reclaim a treasure stolen by the dragon Smaug.Not only is ...
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A middle-aged hobbit, a dangerous quest, a magic ring, and a fearsome dragon: middle school and high school students explore symbolism, themes, and genre while dodging orcs and enjoying Tolkien's highly acclaimed fairy tale.
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J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel, The Hobbit, has enchanted readers for many years. Filled with fantastic creatures and a Hobbit who is certainly not interested in adventures, there’s a reason...
Can you imagine having a mind like J. R. R. Tolkien? Studying authors will be a great journey with these free resources for studying Tolkien & his works.
We've got some free Tolkien fonts for you to download in honor of Hobbit Day and Tolkien Week! You can also write you name in rune or Elvish!
You might be surprised to find out that you can teach history AND literature with J.R.R. Tolkien, but his life and work fit perfectly in a 20th century timeline.
Leave your hobbit hole and start an adventure with J. R. R. Tolkien's timeless tale of dwarves, dragons, and hobbits.
Hello readers! Over the past few days, I have scoured the internet to find the best invitations for your big day, which also have a Middle-Earth vibe. Some we have already featured here on BreeCra…
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Tineke Bryson, Staff Writer Some thoughts on why we writers are often intimidated by fantasy maps
A middle-aged hobbit, a dangerous quest, a magic ring, and a fearsome dragon: middle school and high school students explore symbolism, themes, and genre while dodging orcs and enjoying Tolkien's highly acclaimed fairy tale.
J. R. R. Tolkien was the wildly imaginative author of The Lord of The Rings fame. Click for even more facts or download our comprehensive worksheets.
The roleplaying game hobby can be visually stunning. As gamers we find inspiration in amazing artwork – the cover of our favorite version of Dungeons & Dragons, line art that fits our favorite character, iconic monster illustrations, the portrait of the perfect villain for our campaign – and fantastic maps enabling us to navigate wondrous fantasy worlds. This becomes even more significant considering the action envisioned in roleplaying games takes place in everyone’s imagination (albeit sometimes with the assistance of miniatures, game mats, and terrain). The graphic elements of a map – whether for a roleplaying game supplement or a fantasy novel – invite the viewer to explore that place, providing a visual medium for the quest and incentive to investigate its mysteries. Maps remain one of the core elements of the roleplaying game hobby. They’re a visual medium that – unlike pages of adventure or gazetteer text – can make an immediate impression on gamers and quickly engage their imagination. Their prominence in roleplaying games – especially the earliest efforts – evolved from maps in the literature that helped stimulate the hobby. Maps of lands like Tolkien’s Middle-earth and Howard’s Hyborian Age setting continue inspiring gamers with their ties to rich literary resources. Dungeon floor plans scrawled on graph paper served as visual guides to the earliest D&D adventures. Show some gamemasters a blank map and they start scheming how to integrate it into their own game, populating it with monsters, treasures, and traps and developing a theme for an entertaining dungeon delve. Show players a wilderness map and their curiosity comes into play: where does the party start, what features should they explore, what’s in those ruins over there? My own journey of inspiration from maps began with The Hobbit. I loved the maps included in the novel: a treasure map in the dwarven style and a regional map of “Wilderland” where the story took place. The treasure map might serves as a good example of a possible in-game prop, but the Wilderland map fired my imagination with its various tags. Even after all these years – and having read it to myself and aloud to my son innumerable times – that map still stirs my creativity. What are those lands like after the events in The Hobbit? What lives in the Mountains of Mirkwood? What’s the best route to take a mule-train of pipe weed from the Shire to Erebor? How do the woodmen figure into the region with Beorn and the goblins? What hazards lurk along the Old Forest Road? Getting The Atlas of Middle-earth as a kid helped fuel my enthusiasm for Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion as well as my own gaming endeavors. Even today a map in a fantasy novel helps me relate characters and cultures to places and visualize where events occur. I’m reading Fletcher Pratt’s The Well of the Unicorn and constantly refer back to the small, single-page map of the realm where the story takes place; it helps me immerse myself in the fantasy world, much like roleplaying game maps. Dungeons & Dragons certainly fostered a love for maps. The Basic D&D set I received that began my roleplaying journey in 1982 provided maps in both the rulebook and enclosed module, B2 The Keep on the Borderlands. The adventure included maps for the eponymous keep, the surrounding wilderness, and the Caves of Chaos with its labyrinth of monster lairs. The wilderness map in particular invited exploration as the Cave of the Unknown was left to the gamemaster’s designs. I eventually fleshed out the “Haunted Keep” offered as an example of dungeon design in the basic rulebook, using the map as the basis for its own full-length adventure. The D&D Expert set continued this map-based inspiration with its map of the Grand Duchy of Karameikos and the two-page map of the known world and Sea of Dread in module X1 The Isle of Dread. Upon purchasing a new D&D module I’d tear off the shrink wrap and, after admiring the artwork on the interior booklet cover, look over the map to see what it might tell me about the adventure. Along the way, with plenty of time in my high-school days for immersion in roleplaying games, I devised a slew of maps, some developing into full adventures, others languishing as only initial concepts for future scenarios. As I explored other games and genres, I drafted maps for roleplaying in those settings, too. even used maps of existing and self-created fantasy worlds in my own miniatures games, where each figure represented a unit in some faction’s army, marching across hexes, fording rivers, crossing mountains, capturing cities, and forging their own military narrative on my tabletop. Map by Dyson Logos Maps continue inspiring us, inviting us to explore them. Dyson Logos, Matt Jackson, and other map creators lend gamers their visual creations to populate as they like for their own adventures. Play some of the wonderfully succinct, map-based mini-adventures from Tim Shorts, Simon Forster, Michael Prescott, and others. A single location-based graphic can provide the material for an entire night’s adventure; a regional or world map can form the basis for an entire campaign. I love the map of the Brecken Vale from Justin Halliday’s Hero Kids; it visually describes an area rife with adventure possibility, both in the printed scenarios he offers and in the inspiration little graphics provide for this gamemaster dad pestered to run another game session. Maps serve as the departure point for exploration in roleplaying games: the gamemaster devising adversaries, encounters, and adventure hooks based on map locations; the players asking questions about what characters might know about various features and then planning how they might interact with what they find there. They help channel the creative energies we pour into our gaming exploits, providing a visual focal point and the foundation of our understanding of an imaginary fantasy world. Comments.... Want to share your opinion? Start a civilized discussion? Share a link to this blog entry on Google+ and tag me (+Peter Schweighofer) to comment.
The Hobbit Unit Study is a fun, integrated literature approach to language arts. Works for multiple ages based on writing techniques by J.R.R.Tolkien.
Y'all know that we LOVE schooling through literature! When we had the opportunity to try out a few of the LitWits Kits from LitWits, we totally jumped at this. The hardest part was figuring out which one to use first.... LitWits kits are literature-based unit studies. Each is approximately 30-40 pages long and includes discussion questions, comprehension and vocabulary, hands-on projects, crafts, cooking projects, and more. The idea behind them is that students are getting an in depth look at a subject or era, depending on the book selected. When you purchase your LitWits Kits, they are yours to keep forever. You can download the files, but also have the option of accessing them in your account online. We chose to download the one we were currently using, including both the activity files and the printable worksheets, to have on-hand in case the internet went out. Your kits stay in your account, and you can easily access them any time by clicking 'Access my kit.' There are also links to ways to use, where you can get further ideas for that particular book, and kit reviews (to see how others have used that book). The kits include: Prop Ideas - These are objects that will help bring the story to life for readers. As our kitchen already looks too much like a school, we opted not to use any of the props ideas, but if you have a dedicated school room, they would be a nice addition to the unit. Hands-On Fun - This section includes activities that range from building something to acting out a scene to hosting a discussion group. Each kit has different activities, but there are usually about four of them. As a teacher, this is one of my favorite sections because it helps to bring elements of the story to life. BookBites - These are recipes that either have significance in the story or are culturally appropriate (based on setting). For Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, we made a pan of cornbread and a pot of beans, as this is what Cassie and her Mama are often making to stretch their meager rations. Takeaways - This section is about the bigger picture. With younger children, it's easy to gloss through this section, but with older kids it definitely serves as a jumping off point for deeper discussions. With some of the kits, be prepared to answer the uncomfortable questions. This is a section where teaching values comes into play. Handouts - Provided in a separate download, this is the written academic portion of the kit. Story elements, writing practice, geography, and history are some of the pieces touched upon in these worksheets. Learning Links - Including 'About the Author' and 'Story Supplements,' this is a collection of website links for further exploration. There is also a link to a Pinterest board that relates to that specific book. LitWits Kits for High School The Tempest and The Hobbit are definitely good for high school, though they work for all; and because of advanced language and length, Treasure Island, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Journey to the Center of the Earth also straddle multiple grades levels. But having said that, many of these titles have teen protagonists whose stories are relatable to older kids, and/or circumstances that suit mature kids—for instance, Johnny Tremain, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and The Circuit. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry LitWits Kit The story focuses on racial relations in Mississippi during the Reconstruction Era and into the Great Depression. The Logan family struggles to navigate a racist society in 1930's Mississippi. The children encounter racism and intolerance at the schools, in town, at local stores, and soon lynchings and hate crimes begin to occur. Meanwhile, the Logan family tries to maintain their land and dignity through the difficult times. This was a timely book, given the age of the boys and the current tensions and climate in America, so we took our time going through this kit as it sparked many lengthy discussions. While it may be available to younger readers, I would recommend waiting until kids reach the double digits (ten and up) before tackling it due to the sensitive issues and some of the graphic descriptions in the book. It's not something to shield our kids from, but something that parents should be aware of before beginning to read together. We spent most of the review period on this kit. We read the book aloud together as a family, and then went through the various elements of the kit. We looked at current events to draw parallels between the 1933 of the book and modern-day America, and found that racism is still alive and thriving, though not always in the ways that people want to declare. As part of the unit, we also cooked up a mess of beans, greens, and cornbread, which was super yummy! As part of this review, we also checked into: The Hobbit LitWits Kit - This is one of the boys' favorite books, so it took us considerably less time to get through it as we had all recently read it. Their favorite hands-on project here was making an elvish sword. They took an old yardstick, shaped it, created a cardboard hilt, and painted it to look like one of the swords used in The Hobbit. Around the World in 80 Days LitWits Kit - We did not get to this one during the review period, but a peek into the pages shows that it focuses heavily on world geography. This would be a fantastic kit to use as the spine in a co-op setting for geography class! The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - Another one that we haven't gotten to yet, but looking through it, the kit focuses on New York City and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This would make a nice introduction to art through hands-on medium. The cooking projects are all about perspective, and there are some geography and travel elements as well. Around the World in 80 Days focuses heavily on geography and travel, especially during throughout the British empire. The Hobbit teaches about Norse mythology and focuses on the character trait of courage. The kids enjoyed designing Elvish Swords from this kit! See what others are saying about LitWits Kits at the Homeschool Review Crew!
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A middle-aged hobbit, a dangerous quest, a magic ring, and a fearsome dragon: middle school and high school students explore symbolism, themes, and genre while dodging orcs and enjoying Tolkien's highly acclaimed fairy tale.
