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Deb Hutchinson
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Artist,Tolkien fan, yarn addict, spinner & japanophile (Instagram debhutchinson_art and debhutchinson_tolkienart)
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🧙‍♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 45 theme: “J.R.R. Tolkien”
Celebrating J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday on Wednesday 3rd January (1892).
Info: greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/intr...
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Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
January 2, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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🎄 This is the best time to read J.R.R. Tolkien's "Letters from Father Christmas"! If you don't know them yet, you should change that quickly. The collection features so much of Tolkien's magic and humour, it's pure delight! 🎅🏼🐻‍❄️
Ein Buch, das einem Baum zugewandt ist.
December 23, 2023 at 7:45 PM
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🧙‍♂️🎅 Father Christmas Letters: #Tolkien wrote the Oxford Dictionary edition.

Jjohn Garth article: johngarth.co.uk/php/ring_of_...
Tube station quote of the day (2nd December 2023) - "Santa has been reading your posts all year. Most of you are getting dictionaries."
December 2, 2023 at 7:54 AM
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#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday Week 41 (Tuesday 5 December) theme of "Soil" celebrates National Soil Day: Look to your gardeners, places of growth and also #Tolkien's letters/words for inspiration!
Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
November 30, 2023 at 9:53 PM
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📆 Week 40 theme: “Faith”
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Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
November 27, 2023 at 9:36 PM
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This week's #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday (Week 40: Tuesday 28th November 2023) follows the theme of today's Tolkien Society seminar... "Faith".
More info: greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/intr...
Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
November 26, 2023 at 9:14 AM
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Thrilled to be co-hosting this seminar, co-sponsored by the Tolkien Society and the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow: "Tolkien and Religion in the 21st Century."

It's happening THIS SUNDAY (26 November 2023), so sign up for free at the link. It's going to rock!
Tolkien Society Online Seminar 2023 – Tolkien and Religion in the Twenty-first Century
The Tolkien Society Seminar is a short conference of both researcher-led and non-academic presentations on a specific theme pertaining to Tolkien scholarship.The Society held three seminars in 2021 (T...
www.tolkiensociety.org
November 24, 2023 at 1:26 PM
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My last minute St Helens Open Art Competition entry (took about 90 minutes) acrylic, fine liner pen + kohinoor watercolours ... the 99 yew trees at Painswick in the Cotswolds ... #painswick #99yewtrees #sthelensopenartcompetition #yewtrees
November 24, 2023 at 12:01 AM
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📆 Week 39 theme: “Christopher”
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Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
November 20, 2023 at 9:53 PM
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I was so scared of doing this sketch ... I worked on layout pad with graphite pencils! Please be kind!
#tolkientuesday #tolkientrewsday #tolkien #christophertolkien #christopher
November 21, 2023 at 9:45 PM
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So ... its dragon time ... my little dragon has big ideas - "Over Laketown" - fine liner pens (being being colooured ... #tolkientrewsday #tolkientuesday #tolkien #dragon #laketown #smaug #dragonoverlaketown #medieval buildings #cartoon buildings #nogginthenog
November 17, 2023 at 11:01 PM
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More information: greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/intr...

Photo source: NY Times (2020) by Josh Dolgin [https://nytimes.com/2020/01/16/books/christopher-tolkien-dead.html]
Christopher Tolkien sat in his living room, arms folded, and a large fireplace is behind him along with a dressing table with candles and plates.
November 15, 2023 at 9:25 PM
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Week 39 of #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday celebrates the birthday of Christopher #Tolkien. JRRT called him his "chief critic and collaborator". Please join us on Tuesday 21st November 2023 to toast the man who published the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, HoME and much more.
Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday - text equivalent found at https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
November 15, 2023 at 9:12 PM
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📆 Week 38 theme: “The Fallen”
Armistice Day / Remembrance Sunday
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Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
November 14, 2023 at 12:14 AM
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#tolkientrewsday week 38 14nov2023 "The Fallen". 2 sketches - the finished version inspired by Tolkien's Dead Marshes ... the smaller first draft.
#tolkientrewsday #tolkientuesday #tolkien #thefallen #deadmarshes
November 14, 2023 at 8:09 AM
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🧙‍♂️ 🧵 2/ Tolkien Trewsday (the Hobbit name for Tuesday!) invites the #Tolkien community to form a fellowship to collectively tweet about a pre-selected theme about Tolkien, his works and his life.
November 6, 2023 at 10:47 PM
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Well ... found an old piece of work my 'Swansong' illustrated poem 1985 used in the Weathertop Magazine for Amon Sul Smial - I used the linocut as inspiration for my day 16 Beauty for #tolkientober2023 #tolkientrewsday #tolkientuesday #amunsulsmial #weathertopmagazine #
November 10, 2023 at 7:26 PM
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I think it's time to do a

TOLKIENISTS WITH BLUESKY

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Glad to have you here...

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November 6, 2023 at 12:49 AM
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#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

On 9 November an expanded, revised edition of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien will be unleashed upon the world. So I want to offer a gentle reminder.

Tolkien's letters cannot tell you what Middle-earth means. That's up to you.
November 7, 2023 at 9:09 AM
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🤣 so fabulous ... Love it !!!
timbolton.bsky.social Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Laurelin 💍 (He/Him) @timbolton.bsky.social · Nov 6
🧙‍♂️✉️ 12/ The “For the Liberation of the Shire” inspired this cartoon!
Image of a Hobbit riding a Nazgûl-bird/Pterodactyl shouting “For the Liberation of the Shire” whilst the bird hisses, “Screeeeeeee”.
November 7, 2023 at 5:27 PM
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🧙‍♂️✉️ 12/ The “For the Liberation of the Shire” inspired this cartoon!
Image of a Hobbit riding a Nazgûl-bird/Pterodactyl shouting “For the Liberation of the Shire” whilst the bird hisses, “Screeeeeeee”.
November 6, 2023 at 10:54 PM
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Such a tender and loving letter to Tolkien's son ...
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🧙‍♂️✉️ 11/ The Letters contain some absolutely wonderful insights into the mind of Tolkien. Letter 100 shows a range of Tolkien’s feelings – fears for his son, joking about Hobbits riding pterodactyls (or are they?) and his disgust at British foreign policy.
Letter 100, From a letter to Christopher Tolkien 29 May 1945 But it is the aeroplane of war that is the real villain. And nothing can really amend my grief that you, my best beloved, have any connexion with it. My sentiments are more or less those that Frodo would have had if he discovered some Hobbits learning to ride Nazgûl-birds, ‘for the liberation of the Shire’. Though in this case, as I know nothing about British or American imperialism in the Far East that does not fill me with regret and disgust, I am afraid I am not even supported by a glimmer of patriotism in this remaining war. I would not subscribe a penny to it, let alone a son, were I a free man. -- Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (Letter 100, 29 May 1945, p.115).
November 7, 2023 at 5:26 PM
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🧙‍♂️ 🧵 7/ So let’s begin! This week’s themes - Week 37: “Letters”. Please use the following tags when you join in: #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien. You can tweet art, quotes, thoughts, blogs, academic work, reading recommendations, etc. 🗨️
November 6, 2023 at 10:48 PM
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📆 Week 37 theme: “Letters”
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Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
November 6, 2023 at 10:47 PM
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It's crucial for scholars and fans to confront the ways Tolkien can and has been appropriated by the radical right. Too much discourse handwaves—or actively encourages—sexism, racism, and religious chauvinism.
How did The Lord of the Rings become a secret weapon in Italy’s culture wars? | Jamie Mackay
Giorgia Meloni and the hard right are celebrating JRR Tolkien’s saga – while taking over Italy’s key cultural institutions, says Florence-based author Jamie Mackay
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2023 at 10:14 AM