Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉
@thetolkienist.com
Indie #Tolkien scholar | Founder GermanTolkSoc #TolkienFolk | Travelling Tolkienist | Crowdfund me via Steady https://steady.page/thetolkienist 🧙♂️🧝✨ he/him
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🎄🎅 Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays 🎁🌲
You know, you may have found the right person to be by your side when she gifts you with an individualised boxed edition of the L.A. Times historic newspaper - Tolkien-themed, of course 😇 - you have been wanting for a long time...
You know, you may have found the right person to be by your side when she gifts you with an individualised boxed edition of the L.A. Times historic newspaper - Tolkien-themed, of course 😇 - you have been wanting for a long time...
"A full and a exhaustive list of all the kings and queens of Gondor,
including the number of generations you will be removed from that Elvish girl you like if things work out."
Part iii.
including the number of generations you will be removed from that Elvish girl you like if things work out."
Part iii.
What book is Aragorn reading? Wrong answers only.
December 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"A full and a exhaustive list of all the kings and queens of Gondor,
including the number of generations you will be removed from that Elvish girl you like if things work out."
Part iii.
including the number of generations you will be removed from that Elvish girl you like if things work out."
Part iii.
My girl bought Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered.
She loves to steal, burglar, assassinate and burn to a crisp.
I'm doomed. 😂
She loves to steal, burglar, assassinate and burn to a crisp.
I'm doomed. 😂
a man in armor says stop you violated the law in yellow letters
ALT: a man in armor says stop you violated the law in yellow letters
media.tenor.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My girl bought Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered.
She loves to steal, burglar, assassinate and burn to a crisp.
I'm doomed. 😂
She loves to steal, burglar, assassinate and burn to a crisp.
I'm doomed. 😂
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Looking up in the Radcliffe Camera. 🆙
(This view never gets old)
(This view never gets old)
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Looking up in the Radcliffe Camera. 🆙
(This view never gets old)
(This view never gets old)
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【完全版】 エッダ: 古代北欧歌謡集
Amazon.co.jp: 【完全版】 エッダ: 古代北欧歌謡集 : 谷口 幸男, 伊藤 尽, 小澤 実: Japanese Books
amzn.asia
December 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Welcome new followers! I realize a lot of you came via a broader Tolkien starter pack but if you’re interested in the Digital Tolkien Project, here’s a recent video…
December 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Welcome new followers! I realize a lot of you came via a broader Tolkien starter pack but if you’re interested in the Digital Tolkien Project, here’s a recent video…
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December 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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🥂 El 3 de enero celebrareremos 134 años del nacimiento de Tolkien y lo haremos con el tradicional Brindis: copa en alto y «¡Por el Profesor!».
🗺️ Lista de smiales con brindis presenciales y online por toda la península y el ciberespacio:
ℹ️ www.sociedadtolkien.org/blog/2025/12...
🗺️ Lista de smiales con brindis presenciales y online por toda la península y el ciberespacio:
ℹ️ www.sociedadtolkien.org/blog/2025/12...
Brindis por Tolkien 2026 - Sociedad Tolkien Española (STE)
El 3 de enero se conmemoran el nacimiento de J.R.R. Tolkien y la STE invita a sus miembros a celebrar de manera especial, te contamos dónde.
www.sociedadtolkien.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🥂 El 3 de enero celebrareremos 134 años del nacimiento de Tolkien y lo haremos con el tradicional Brindis: copa en alto y «¡Por el Profesor!».
🗺️ Lista de smiales con brindis presenciales y online por toda la península y el ciberespacio:
ℹ️ www.sociedadtolkien.org/blog/2025/12...
🗺️ Lista de smiales con brindis presenciales y online por toda la península y el ciberespacio:
ℹ️ www.sociedadtolkien.org/blog/2025/12...
Don't forget - if you're new to Bluesky or you want to welcome lovely people in the new year...
Simply check out the amazing starter packs out there...
Like this one 🎁🙏 #Tolkien
go.bsky.app/RQdWq5f
Simply check out the amazing starter packs out there...
Like this one 🎁🙏 #Tolkien
go.bsky.app/RQdWq5f
December 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Don't forget - if you're new to Bluesky or you want to welcome lovely people in the new year...
Simply check out the amazing starter packs out there...
Like this one 🎁🙏 #Tolkien
go.bsky.app/RQdWq5f
Simply check out the amazing starter packs out there...
Like this one 🎁🙏 #Tolkien
go.bsky.app/RQdWq5f
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Well, hello, Twitter refugees! We have tea, cookies, Stormlight, CritRole, and Tolkien. 🧡
December 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Well, hello, Twitter refugees! We have tea, cookies, Stormlight, CritRole, and Tolkien. 🧡
🎄🎅 Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays 🎁🌲
You know, you may have found the right person to be by your side when she gifts you with an individualised boxed edition of the L.A. Times historic newspaper - Tolkien-themed, of course 😇 - you have been wanting for a long time...
You know, you may have found the right person to be by your side when she gifts you with an individualised boxed edition of the L.A. Times historic newspaper - Tolkien-themed, of course 😇 - you have been wanting for a long time...
December 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🎄🎅 Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays 🎁🌲
You know, you may have found the right person to be by your side when she gifts you with an individualised boxed edition of the L.A. Times historic newspaper - Tolkien-themed, of course 😇 - you have been wanting for a long time...
You know, you may have found the right person to be by your side when she gifts you with an individualised boxed edition of the L.A. Times historic newspaper - Tolkien-themed, of course 😇 - you have been wanting for a long time...
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including: Isengard in Oxford; consider gifting a membership to my crowdfunding; more JTR; a disfigured moon; Black Pine Collection; one copy sold only games; and much, much more...
steady.page/en/thetolkie...
Including: Isengard in Oxford; consider gifting a membership to my crowdfunding; more JTR; a disfigured moon; Black Pine Collection; one copy sold only games; and much, much more...
steady.page/en/thetolkie...
The One hundred and sixty-eighth Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #168 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
steady.page
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including: Isengard in Oxford; consider gifting a membership to my crowdfunding; more JTR; a disfigured moon; Black Pine Collection; one copy sold only games; and much, much more...
steady.page/en/thetolkie...
Including: Isengard in Oxford; consider gifting a membership to my crowdfunding; more JTR; a disfigured moon; Black Pine Collection; one copy sold only games; and much, much more...
steady.page/en/thetolkie...
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¿Sabíais que muchas pinturas rupestres, incluyendo algunas españolas, influyeron en "Las cartas de Papá Noel" de #Tolkien?
¿Podemos encontrar alguno de los animales retratados en Altamira en dibujos del propio Profesor?
Las respuestas, en este artículo.
finduriel.blogspot.com/2022/05/tolk...
¿Podemos encontrar alguno de los animales retratados en Altamira en dibujos del propio Profesor?
Las respuestas, en este artículo.
finduriel.blogspot.com/2022/05/tolk...
Tolkien prehistórico
¿Pudieron los pobladores prehistóricos influir en la obra de Tolkien?..
finduriel.blogspot.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
¿Sabíais que muchas pinturas rupestres, incluyendo algunas españolas, influyeron en "Las cartas de Papá Noel" de #Tolkien?
¿Podemos encontrar alguno de los animales retratados en Altamira en dibujos del propio Profesor?
Las respuestas, en este artículo.
finduriel.blogspot.com/2022/05/tolk...
¿Podemos encontrar alguno de los animales retratados en Altamira en dibujos del propio Profesor?
Las respuestas, en este artículo.
finduriel.blogspot.com/2022/05/tolk...
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Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
Yesterday I received the last specimen copy of any translation I have ever made. After more than twenty years my job as a freelance translator is over... on the weekend before Christmas. 😢
Well, I'll just have to reinvent myself for 2026.
Onward. Forward.
Well, I'll just have to reinvent myself for 2026.
Onward. Forward.
December 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Yesterday I received the last specimen copy of any translation I have ever made. After more than twenty years my job as a freelance translator is over... on the weekend before Christmas. 😢
Well, I'll just have to reinvent myself for 2026.
Onward. Forward.
Well, I'll just have to reinvent myself for 2026.
Onward. Forward.
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I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal women’s right to vote! open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
December 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal women’s right to vote! open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
It was the 'Age of Empires II barack sound' that made this follow a must...
December 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It was the 'Age of Empires II barack sound' that made this follow a must...
And this one should be a T-shirt for all of us... 😅
"Now, Monseigneur,
Where is the corridor
to your crapper-door?"
~ sounds like Tolkien
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tolkie...
"Now, Monseigneur,
Where is the corridor
to your crapper-door?"
~ sounds like Tolkien
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tolkie...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tolkien
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tolkien
www.smbc-comics.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
And this one should be a T-shirt for all of us... 😅
"Now, Monseigneur,
Where is the corridor
to your crapper-door?"
~ sounds like Tolkien
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tolkie...
"Now, Monseigneur,
Where is the corridor
to your crapper-door?"
~ sounds like Tolkien
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tolkie...
This is one of the most hilarious articles I had to read this year.
DID YOU KNOW?
"Lego The Lord of the Rings" was sold once for the NINTENDO DS.
" Lord of Rings: The Two Towers" was sold once for PLAYSTATION 2.
"Lego the Hobbit" sold once for the PLAYSTATION VITA.
[Sure, only retail... but!]
DID YOU KNOW?
"Lego The Lord of the Rings" was sold once for the NINTENDO DS.
" Lord of Rings: The Two Towers" was sold once for PLAYSTATION 2.
"Lego the Hobbit" sold once for the PLAYSTATION VITA.
[Sure, only retail... but!]
PlayStation Vita, someone still loves you
The 176 video games that only sold one copy in 2025
PlayStation Vita, someone still loves you
www.polygon.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is one of the most hilarious articles I had to read this year.
DID YOU KNOW?
"Lego The Lord of the Rings" was sold once for the NINTENDO DS.
" Lord of Rings: The Two Towers" was sold once for PLAYSTATION 2.
"Lego the Hobbit" sold once for the PLAYSTATION VITA.
[Sure, only retail... but!]
DID YOU KNOW?
"Lego The Lord of the Rings" was sold once for the NINTENDO DS.
" Lord of Rings: The Two Towers" was sold once for PLAYSTATION 2.
"Lego the Hobbit" sold once for the PLAYSTATION VITA.
[Sure, only retail... but!]
I am very happy to share this piece of news with a lot of background on Tolkien's favourite tree, the Pinus Nigra aka Laocoon.
Get to Oxford as soon as you can!
thetolkienist.com/2025/12/19/t...
Get to Oxford as soon as you can!
thetolkienist.com/2025/12/19/t...
The Black Pine Collection - Tolkien's favourite tree staging another comeback (of sorts) - thetolkienist.com
The Oxford Botanic Garden has just released the Black Pine Collection - with a lovely link to Tolkien's favourite tree.
thetolkienist.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I am very happy to share this piece of news with a lot of background on Tolkien's favourite tree, the Pinus Nigra aka Laocoon.
Get to Oxford as soon as you can!
thetolkienist.com/2025/12/19/t...
Get to Oxford as soon as you can!
thetolkienist.com/2025/12/19/t...
That always reminds me of the story of a certain hobbit's birthday ON A PLANE (without the snakes!), celebrating it twice with his favourite elf 😅
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
That always reminds me of the story of a certain hobbit's birthday ON A PLANE (without the snakes!), celebrating it twice with his favourite elf 😅
That's not even the weirdest and/ or silly stuff...
Amazing read, nevertheless! Enjoy :)
h/t @tolkienguide.com 😅
Amazing read, nevertheless! Enjoy :)
h/t @tolkienguide.com 😅
ridiculous lord of the rings merch: a thread. 💍💰💀
December 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
That's not even the weirdest and/ or silly stuff...
Amazing read, nevertheless! Enjoy :)
h/t @tolkienguide.com 😅
Amazing read, nevertheless! Enjoy :)
h/t @tolkienguide.com 😅
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including:
Visit John Howe; PPP Moot; bomber crashs and Tolkien; Tower & the Ruin; walk down into Hobbiton; the road goes ever on; Immeasurable Halls; Tower & Ruins; NZ prime minister wanted to be hobbit and more...
Including:
Visit John Howe; PPP Moot; bomber crashs and Tolkien; Tower & the Ruin; walk down into Hobbiton; the road goes ever on; Immeasurable Halls; Tower & Ruins; NZ prime minister wanted to be hobbit and more...
The One hundred and sixty-seventh Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #167 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
steady.page
December 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including:
Visit John Howe; PPP Moot; bomber crashs and Tolkien; Tower & the Ruin; walk down into Hobbiton; the road goes ever on; Immeasurable Halls; Tower & Ruins; NZ prime minister wanted to be hobbit and more...
Including:
Visit John Howe; PPP Moot; bomber crashs and Tolkien; Tower & the Ruin; walk down into Hobbiton; the road goes ever on; Immeasurable Halls; Tower & Ruins; NZ prime minister wanted to be hobbit and more...
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Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨
Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.
Now on display at the Weston Library.
#JaneAusten
Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.
Now on display at the Weston Library.
#JaneAusten
December 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨
Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.
Now on display at the Weston Library.
#JaneAusten
Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.
Now on display at the Weston Library.
#JaneAusten