Brian Weaver
@brianitguy.bsky.social
Chief dog walker, IT Tutor & CWGC volunteer. Former cyclist & rugby fan. Much geekiness in Tolkien, Dad's Army, Sherlock Holmes, aircraft & WW1 history
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"Quand la guerre a pris fin, en 1918, tous mes amis proches, sauf un, étaient morts." (Préface au Seigeur des Anneaux).
L' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) vous invite, en ce jour d'Armistice, à découvrir comment 🥀LA GRANDE GUERRE🥀 est partie intégrante de son oeuvre: ⤵️
"Quand la guerre a pris fin, en 1918, tous mes amis proches, sauf un, étaient morts." (Préface au Seigeur des Anneaux).
L' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) vous invite, en ce jour d'Armistice, à découvrir comment 🥀LA GRANDE GUERRE🥀 est partie intégrante de son oeuvre: ⤵️
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@tolkiendil.bsky.social
"Quand la guerre a pris fin, en 1918, tous mes amis proches, sauf un, étaient morts." (Préface au Seigeur des Anneaux).
L' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) vous invite, en ce jour d'Armistice, à découvrir comment 🥀LA GRANDE GUERRE🥀 est partie intégrante de son oeuvre: ⤵️
"Quand la guerre a pris fin, en 1918, tous mes amis proches, sauf un, étaient morts." (Préface au Seigeur des Anneaux).
L' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) vous invite, en ce jour d'Armistice, à découvrir comment 🥀LA GRANDE GUERRE🥀 est partie intégrante de son oeuvre: ⤵️
Remembering my relatives who died in #WW1 & #WW2 Great Grandfather Clarence Weaver who died due to gas/Spanish Flu as a POW, my Grandad's children killed in #ClydebankBlitz & Granduncle Andrew McKendrick killed on the Somme probably by shelling #Remembrance #LestWeForget
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Remembering my relatives who died in #WW1 & #WW2 Great Grandfather Clarence Weaver who died due to gas/Spanish Flu as a POW, my Grandad's children killed in #ClydebankBlitz & Granduncle Andrew McKendrick killed on the Somme probably by shelling #Remembrance #LestWeForget
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Siegfried Sassoon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mosab Abu Toha, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Usmar Ismail shared a thing: grounded, realistic depiction of war impacts and its subsequent disillusionment in modern era, forcing us to reexamine the fervor of "war glory". 🧵1/6
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Siegfried Sassoon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mosab Abu Toha, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Usmar Ismail shared a thing: grounded, realistic depiction of war impacts and its subsequent disillusionment in modern era, forcing us to reexamine the fervor of "war glory". 🧵1/6
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
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November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The Great War. Tanks at the Gates of Gondolin Great article by @johngarthwriter.bsky.social & brilliant illustration by #RogerGarland johngarth.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/t... If you've not read Tolkien & The Great War then you should @timbolton.bsky.social #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The Great War. Tanks at the Gates of Gondolin Great article by @johngarthwriter.bsky.social & brilliant illustration by #RogerGarland johngarth.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/t... If you've not read Tolkien & The Great War then you should @timbolton.bsky.social #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
The inhabitants refer to it as Middle-Earth. How peaceful it looks
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The inhabitants refer to it as Middle-Earth. How peaceful it looks
Tonight's viewing. In addition to Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson made this masterpiece. They Shall Not Grow Old. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #WW1 #LOTR
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Tonight's viewing. In addition to Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson made this masterpiece. They Shall Not Grow Old. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #WW1 #LOTR
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Two new #Tolkien Deluxe editions next February from @harpercollins.bsky.social - Letters of J.R.R. #Tolkien and The Biography of J.R.R. #Tolkien www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Two new #Tolkien Deluxe editions next February from @harpercollins.bsky.social - Letters of J.R.R. #Tolkien and The Biography of J.R.R. #Tolkien www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
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In a letter to Christopher Bretherton (16 July 1964), Tolkien mentioned a nightmare of a great wave, which he wrote in The Lost Road and Akallabêth. It reminds me of "smong verse" from Simeulue, Aceh, which teaches islanders what to do when smong (tsunami) comes. 1/2
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In a letter to Christopher Bretherton (16 July 1964), Tolkien mentioned a nightmare of a great wave, which he wrote in The Lost Road and Akallabêth. It reminds me of "smong verse" from Simeulue, Aceh, which teaches islanders what to do when smong (tsunami) comes. 1/2
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
Things got a bit damper in Númenor after this chap arrived. ‘The Haven of Moriondë’ Ltd Edition Roger Garland print and cover of The Lost Road & 1989 Tolkien Calendar. Love this painting. “Akallabêth” for #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien @timbolton.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Things got a bit damper in Númenor after this chap arrived. ‘The Haven of Moriondë’ Ltd Edition Roger Garland print and cover of The Lost Road & 1989 Tolkien Calendar. Love this painting. “Akallabêth” for #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien @timbolton.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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📆 #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien Week 141 (04/11/25): “Akallabêth”
World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 NOV).
#TolkienTuesday
World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 NOV).
#TolkienTuesday
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
📆 #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien Week 141 (04/11/25): “Akallabêth”
World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 NOV).
#TolkienTuesday
World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 NOV).
#TolkienTuesday
It's Halloween and The Mewlips are about. One of my favourite poems from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and this is a brilliant animation/song #Tolkien
The Mewlips
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October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's Halloween and The Mewlips are about. One of my favourite poems from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and this is a brilliant animation/song #Tolkien
Happy Birthday @ralphbakshi.bsky.social director of the brilliant 1978 animated Lord of the Rings. Just completed a celebratory jigsaw. Looks like the Hobbits have had too much birthday cake. #LOTR #Tolkien
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Happy Birthday @ralphbakshi.bsky.social director of the brilliant 1978 animated Lord of the Rings. Just completed a celebratory jigsaw. Looks like the Hobbits have had too much birthday cake. #LOTR #Tolkien
Perseverance for #TolkienTrewsday Plenty of perseverance in the Fellowship's quest, expecially from Frodo & Sam. Here they are getting rescued after destroying the ring courtesy of Gollum, in another great painting by Joan Wyatt. The Eagles Rescue Frodo & Sam #LOTR #Tolkien @timbolton.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Perseverance for #TolkienTrewsday Plenty of perseverance in the Fellowship's quest, expecially from Frodo & Sam. Here they are getting rescued after destroying the ring courtesy of Gollum, in another great painting by Joan Wyatt. The Eagles Rescue Frodo & Sam #LOTR #Tolkien @timbolton.bsky.social
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🧙♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 140 (28/10/25): “Perseverance”
Final Tolkien Trewsday theme for #Tolkientober!
#TolkienTuesday
📆 Week 140 (28/10/25): “Perseverance”
Final Tolkien Trewsday theme for #Tolkientober!
#TolkienTuesday
October 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🧙♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 140 (28/10/25): “Perseverance”
Final Tolkien Trewsday theme for #Tolkientober!
#TolkienTuesday
📆 Week 140 (28/10/25): “Perseverance”
Final Tolkien Trewsday theme for #Tolkientober!
#TolkienTuesday
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TolkienTrewsday/Tolkientober:Perseverance
- Finrod challenges Sauron
*Then sudden Felagund there swaying,
Sang in a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,*
#TolkienTrewsday
#Tolkientober
- Finrod challenges Sauron
*Then sudden Felagund there swaying,
Sang in a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,*
#TolkienTrewsday
#Tolkientober
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
TolkienTrewsday/Tolkientober:Perseverance
- Finrod challenges Sauron
*Then sudden Felagund there swaying,
Sang in a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,*
#TolkienTrewsday
#Tolkientober
- Finrod challenges Sauron
*Then sudden Felagund there swaying,
Sang in a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,*
#TolkienTrewsday
#Tolkientober
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October 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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It's Friday and here's fantasy and sci fi art elder Rodney Matthews' 2014 pic The Thief (2014), aka Bilbo Risks a Scorching to Steal a Cup from a Massively Sinister and Spikey Smaug. Favourite details here: the dragon's slit eye and the faux-Tengwar jars which hint at the original 1937 #Tolkien pic
October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It's Friday and here's fantasy and sci fi art elder Rodney Matthews' 2014 pic The Thief (2014), aka Bilbo Risks a Scorching to Steal a Cup from a Massively Sinister and Spikey Smaug. Favourite details here: the dragon's slit eye and the faux-Tengwar jars which hint at the original 1937 #Tolkien pic
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October the 24th! Frodo awakens safe at Rivendell and then is lead by Sam through the high garden to the East Porch where Gandalf, Merry, and Pippin await him. Faithfully based on Professor Tolkien's own paintings and drawings of Imladris, but in reverse view. #Tolkien #TolkienArt
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
October the 24th! Frodo awakens safe at Rivendell and then is lead by Sam through the high garden to the East Porch where Gandalf, Merry, and Pippin await him. Faithfully based on Professor Tolkien's own paintings and drawings of Imladris, but in reverse view. #Tolkien #TolkienArt