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Elves might be graceful and powerful, dwarves might be strong and steadfast in character, but Hobbits are the center of the Lord of the Rings universe as the carriers of the One Ring. As simple creatures who do not wish for much, Hobbits are surprisingly resistant to the corruption of

When does The Rings of Power take place? There are four ages in the Lord of the Rings universe, and each age lasts approximately three thousand years. The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings both take place in the Third Age of Middle Earth. Rings of Power, on the other

I was intrigued by the premise of Three Thousand Years of Longing: Alithea, a professor, attends a conference in Istanbul and is drawn into the stories of the city’s past. The orientalist approach towards the East did leave me disappointed, but there was something else that made the stories

In, 1876, when Chekhov was 15 years old, his family had to sell their possessions in the country-side and move to Moscow. Later, Chekhov himself also moved to Moscow to attend university. In 1904, the year of his death, Chekhov wrote his last play, The Cherry Orchard, which is about

Orhan Pamuk's internationally acclaimed novel has been reviewed and criticized by many; yet certain chapters of the novel received a lot less attention compared to, for instance, "When the Bosphorus Dries Up." So, I've decided to write about a chapter which has been somehow disregarded as far as I am

Simply called ‘El amor’ by Spanish speakers, Love in the Time of Cholera is certainly preoccupied with love but refrains from exhibiting it. On the contrary, it depicts love in confined settings, withdrawn from the public eye. I’ve read some reviews of this novel that question why ‘love’ is

That one question that has been puzzling readers and academics of Shakespeare forever: Why doesn’t Hamlet take revenge when he finds out the horrible murder of his father? The high number of plausible explanations regarding his procrastination, and its success in making readers contemplate is what makes Hamlet so

In one of his interviews, Maurice Sendak, the writer and the illustrator of "Where the Wild Things Are," told that he doesn't start writing with the intention of creating a children's book. As "Where the Wild Things Are" is one of the first examples of fantasy in children's books, it