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Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Laurelin 💍 (He/Him)
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🧙‍♂️ Graduate in Art History, #Tolkien fan, explorer of new places and gamer. #LOTRO. Organiser of #TolkienTrewsday. Fan of #TROP #TheRingsOfPower 💍 Runs "The Gathering Hall" community RPG space 🎲

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Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Laurelin 💍 (He/Him) @timbolton.bsky.social · Nov 17
👋 Welcome to my feed! I’m UK-based. I write about 🧙‍♂️ JRR Tolkien and I’m 💍 #TheRingsofPower friendly. I’m a proud member of the #Tolkien community and a member of @tolkiensociety.org, @mythsoc.bsky.social and other organisations/groups. I’m also a 🎮 gamer and play #LOTRO etc.
“Gandalf in the Archives of Minas Tirith” by Matthew Stewart (2014). Source: http://www.matthew-stewart.com/middle-earth#/gandalf-in-the-archives-of-minas-tirith/
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This stunning photo features as the April image of our new 2026 Calendar! ✨
This calendar is jam-packed full of amazing photos. This image was taken by Simon Wantling (www.simonwantling.co.uk). Thank you so much Simon! 😍
Grab your copy for just £8 + p&p!
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November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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We will be observing the national two-minute silence for Armistice Day at 11.00 today, Tuesday 11 November.

#ArmisticeDay
An illustration of poppies on a grassy cliff-edge, with a derelict building in the background.
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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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
Fall of Gondolin by Roger Garland
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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We will remember them.

11.11.11 #Armistice
Looking up at the columns of St. George's Hall Liverpool which are illuminated in red. A large banner hangs between them with the top half of a poppy and the words "Left we forget" individually between two columns each.
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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TolkienTrewsda: The Great War
- Fallen banners of fallen men
”I remember well the splendour of their banners,’ he said. ‘It recalled to me the glory of the Elder Days and the hosts of Beleriand…”
#TolkienTrewsday
#TolkienTuesday
#Tolkien
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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🧙‍♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 142 (11/11/25): “The Great War”

Armistice Day (11 NOV). We will remember them.

#TolkienTuesday #Armistice
Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2025/02/tolkien-trewsday-year-three.html
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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🧙‍♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 142 (11/11/25): “The Great War”

Armistice Day (11 NOV). We will remember them.

#TolkienTuesday #Armistice
Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2025/02/tolkien-trewsday-year-three.html
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Thank you all for the contributions to #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday this week, your support and love for #Tolkien is much appreciated!

Tomorrow...
Picture of Waldreg from The Rings of Power with the following text: #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday "Had a bit of a thrill in here, Trewsday last."
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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On 9 November 1967: Smith of Wootton Major was first published.

A short story by J.R.R. #Tolkien set entirely outside of Middle-earth, the tale is about a cake and a feast, the Master Cook, Smith, and the land of Faery. A cute little tale that is very much worth your time. #Booksky
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Lord of the Rings Online player posts epic video of a 10-hour trek from the Shire to Mordor
Lord of the Rings Online player posts epic video of a 10-hour trek from the Shire to Mordor
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November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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On a fine summer day in a former age, Robert Quilter Gilson of the #TCBS made a watercolour of a Norfolk beach scene. I find it one of the most affecting of the pictures preserved in the little sketchbooks of this friend of #Tolkien. More: tinyurl.com/robgilson1914
#Remembrance
For remembrance: Robert Quilter Gilson on the eve of war, 1914
On a summer day in a former age, Robert Quilter Gilson of the T.C.B.S. painted a beach scene. I find it one of the most affecting pictures by this friend of Tolkien's.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Time lapse (see previous post, Hole in forest). Procreate.
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Dungeon Corridor in Procreate. Playing with colour and tone.
July 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚

The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...

This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
Illustration of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, featuring an intricate architectural drawing of the historic building with detailed facade, numerous windows, and figures dressed in academic robes seated in the foreground. Engraving of the interior of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, featuring detailed architecture with arched ceilings, rows of books, and figures walking between the bookshelves. Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera surrounded by Oxford University's historic buildings, with a cloudy sky above. Aerial view of the historic University of Oxford, showcasing intricate architecture and a person walking across the courtyard.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon
Spiral montage of photos of the moon in different hues against a black background
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🫵 Pacifying alien threats? Rebel factions? Hunting down rogue AIs? Exploring the unknown?

It's never a dull day in the U.E.F.!

Join the fight in our sci-fi anthro roleplaying game, this September.

Sept 18 2025 UK // Sept 16 US: https://bit.ly/47rPU4c

@jackno.bsky.social
An image like a mocked-up recruitment poster, with an illustration of an anthropomorphic boar in military gear and in a cap with a red star, smoking a cigarette and holding a grenade launcher. In the background are a green moon and planet against the stars of space, and text reeds "THE U.E.F. NEEDS YOU! SIGN UP AND EXPLORE THE UNTAMED WORLDS". "THE UNTAMED WORLDS" is in pink font and slightly glowing, like the RPG's title logo, and below is the Osprey Games logo with the same font and effect.
September 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The Terror Beneath: An Investigative Roleplaying Game of Weird Folk Horror (Osprey Roleplaying) Hardcover

38% off and buy 2 get 1 free eligible

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October 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Good news for fans of Mark Galeotti's splendid "Gran Meccanismo: Clockpunk Roleplaying in Da Vinci's Florence" RPG, published by Osprey Games and using Graham Spearing's TRIPOD system.

https://wordplay1510.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/on-a-summers-night-a-theft/

#rpg #tripod #wordplay #games […]
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October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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#microreviewmonday

Heirs to Heresy is a #ttrpg by Alan Bahr, which takes interesting spin on the historical tale of templar order and their downfall. Mechanically game is very approachable and while book is very aware of dark historical themes, it is going for "fun first" approach on sources. 8v
Heirs to heresy, the fall of the knight templars by Alan Bahr, laid onto top of the cover. At the bottom is text "A roleplaying game" followed by Osprey games trademark. The cover art features a templar knight with sword in their hands, standing above a burning castle.
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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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
A folk verse in Simeulue language and its English translation. It says: Enggel mon sao curito Inang maso semonan Manoknop sao fano Uwi lah da sesewan Unen ne alek linon Fesang bakat ne mali Manoknop sao hampong Tibo-tibo mawi Anga linon ne mali Uwek suruik sahuli Maheya mihawali Fano me singa tenggi Ede smong kahanne Turiang da nenekta Miredem teher ere Pesan dan navi da Listen to this tale Once upon a time A village drowned As it was told Starting with a quake Followed by a giant wave The land submerged It was so sudden If the quake was strong And the seawater receding Hurry and search for A higher land It is called smong The story of our ancestors Remember this The message and the lesson The smong verse, as recited in 2014 by Mohammad Riswan of Simeulue and transcribed by Ayat Karokaro for Mongabay Indonesia (translation by me) A photograph of The Lost Road and Other Writings: the final chapter in the history of Middle-earth, by JRR. Tolkien. The book is a paperback with a cover that depicts a handful of soldiers in armors and carrying spears and shields hiding behind rock formation near the ocean, observing a tall white tower.
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Le 5 novembre est la journée mondiale de prévention contre les tsunamis.
C'est l'occasion pour l' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) de rappeler l'AKALLABĒTH, le récit bouleversant de la chute de Númenor 🌊🏯⬇️
Ted Nasmith: Akallabêth. A l'horizon, annonciateur de la tempête, plane une immense forme d'aigle assombrissant le soleil. Au premier plan, des Numénoréens terrifiés.
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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
The Haven of Moriondë print by Roger Garland The Haven of Moriondë print by Roger Garland
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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TolkienTrewsday: Akallabêth
- Tar-Míriel trying to reach the Meneltarma before the wave

#TolkienTrewsday
#TolkienTuesday
#Tolkien
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🧙‍♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 141 (04/11/25): “Akallabêth”

World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 NOV).

#TolkienTuesday
Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2025/02/tolkien-trewsday-year-three.html
November 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Good morning.
An absolutely cheery Sadoc Burrows (Lenny Henry in Amazon's Rings of Power) greets the morning and the world with his sunny disposition with his usual "Good morning" and a smile.
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM