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Dr Hannah McDonald
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Chair of The Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org | PhD in chemistry | Mostly posting nice pictures of #Tolkien books
Happy Hobbit Day to all who celebrate!

#Tolkien #TheHobbit #LOTR
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Happiest of birthdays to The Hobbit! Published on this day in 1937!

#Tolkien #TheHobbit
September 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Well, I’m back
September 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The Tolkien Society Christmas mailing has started winging its way to our members across the world! Looking forward to reading these over the festive season!

The Christmas card this year features a beautiful piece by Donato Giancola ❤️

#Tolkien #Mallorn #AmonHen
December 18, 2024 at 6:16 PM
The amount of work that Tolkien put into the timelines and chronologies for The Lord of the Rings is breathtaking. I think one of the reasons we love this work so much is because the care and love of the author shines through with every word.
#Tolkien #LOTR #LordoftheRings
December 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM
In a departure from my usual posts about Tolkien, I am currently reading An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro and it is excellent.
December 8, 2024 at 10:30 AM
“Part of the attraction of The L.R. is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist.”

#Tolkien #LOTR #LordOfTheRings
December 7, 2024 at 6:35 PM
“It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep.”
-The Houses of Healing, The Lord of the Rings

#Tolkien #LOTR #LordoftheRings
December 6, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Had a lovely time at the War of the Rohirrim world premiere in London last night! ☺️ #Tolkien #LOTR
December 4, 2024 at 4:03 PM
It’s December - that can only mean one thing! It’s time for Letters from Father Christmas!🎄

#Tolkien #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #TheHobbit
December 3, 2024 at 2:44 PM
All women want is a guy who will 3D print them a Smaug toothbrush holder ❤️
November 29, 2024 at 8:01 PM
A very emotional end to the Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference. It has been an indescribable weekend and I hope we were able to create an event that truly honoured Christopher Tolkien ❤️ Thank you to everyone who joined us ❤️
November 24, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Day 1 of the Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference has just finished! It was inspiring, deeply moving, fascinating and just incredibly special. Looking forward to tomorrow! #Tolkien #ChristopherTolkien
November 23, 2024 at 9:33 PM
“Of the world of Tolkien, the founding books had been published
They prospered like tall trees, but it is you who revealed the forest”

Today marks 100 years since the birth of Christopher Tolkien.

#Tolkien
November 21, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Huan, the Hound of Valinor, didn’t just appear fully formed in the tale of Beren and Lúthien - he had a clear forerunner in Musti, the OG magical good dog in Tolkien’s “The Story of Kullervo”!

#Tolkien
November 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley.

#Tolkien #TheHobbit #Rivendell #LOTR
November 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM
November 16, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Bakshi forever
November 15, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I’m still completely in awe of all the amazing snippets of information we were given in The Nature of Middle-earth. I mean, #Tolkien considered atoms, molecules and the concept of isotopes in his metaphysical writings, and had Quenya terms for them!
#LOTR #LordoftheRings
November 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM
'A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age-group. It comes from reading books above one'
Tolkien, 1959 (Letter 215)

#Tolkien
November 14, 2024 at 8:12 PM
One of my favourite editions of The Silmarillion. Ted Nasmith’s illustrations are so beautiful and dramatic ❤️

#Tolkien #LOTR #TheSilmarillion
November 12, 2024 at 5:41 PM
“Defeat is the theme. Triumph over the foes of man's precarious fortress is over, and we approach slowly and reluctantly the inevitable victory of death.”

-J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

#Tolkien #Beowulf #LOTR
November 11, 2024 at 7:23 PM
5yo: I’m writing a story!
Me: What’s it about?
5yo: Smaug and Ancalagon the Black team up and fight Gandalf and the dwarves!
Husband: …What have you been telling her?
Me: The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven
October 24, 2024 at 3:12 PM
The first Tolkien book I owned 📚

Beautiful cover art by John Howe ❤️

#Tolkien #TheHobbit #LOTR #LordOfTheRings
October 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin’s sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.

-The Siege of Gondor, The Lord of the Rings

#Tolkien #LOTR
October 13, 2024 at 4:45 PM