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