MagicCon 7 – Lectures & Readings

Catherine Snow, author of the “VIRIDIS Saga” and “Akademie im Niemals”, reads from her new novel, “Schatten der Magie – Das Arkane Portal”. What happens when […]

If you were to look at a list of Tolkien’s works at the time of his death and compare it with a current one, you would […]

J.R.R. Tolkien, the father of modern fantasy literature, was a practicing Catholic Christian from childhood throughout his life. Religion therefore played an important role in Tolkien’s […]

At first glance, no one would think that J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Andrzej Sapkowki’s Witcher series could have anything to do with each […]

More or less brave hobbits, noble high elves, humans of the most varied dispositions and a few beings of an unexplained nature. They all are or […]

All witches or what? From Tolkien to C.S. Lewis to Philip Pullman etc.: Magical abilities in women have always conjured up both desires and fears in […]

Writing as a discovery writer, or: How to control the chaos Do you have ideas for a brilliant story but can’t get them down on paper? […]

Many fans consider this English series by Richard Carpenter, which ran for three seasons with 26 episodes in the 1980s, to be one of the best […]

Clear the ring for the two duels between the classic magic comedy series of the 60s: “I dream of Jeannie vs Bewitched” and “The Munsters vs […]

Not just Tolkien: the “other” classic fantasy world creator: Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian, among others) Who doesn’t know the classic sword & […]