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Book nerd & crazy cat lady. Why yes, yes this has turned into a Tolkien/LOTR/ROP account. Just trying to survive both perimenopause and the downfall of American freedom.
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A lap full of cats and my next read: a voyage through philosophy and faith in Tolkien’s works. A holiday weekend well spent!
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Two cats curled up on my lap and the book cover of Robert J. Dobie’s The Fantasy of JRR Tolkien: Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation
September 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Three day weekend! Finally have some time to continue Reading All the #Tolkien Things. Despite my love of phonics and morphology (reading specialist), I’ve never really been interested in learning Quenya or Sindarin. This book may or may not change that. 😂
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Book cover of JRR Tolkien: A Secret Vice (Tolkien on Invented Languages), edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.
August 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Starting the new school year has seriously cut into my reading time. I’m re-reading LOTR for comfort.
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The book The Lord of the Rings, open to Book 2 Chapter 3: The Ring Goes South. Illustrated edition with Tengwar script on the edges of the pages.
August 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I know this book has rave reviews, but I’m really finding it a slog to get through. I think Shippey’s writing style and organization of the text is just not my cup of tea. The information itself is fascinating, but the way it’s written keeps putting me to sleep. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Cover of the book The Road to Middle-Earth: How JRR Tolkien Created a New Mythology by Tom Shippey.
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Trying to see my book around two cats vying for prime space on my lap is an Olympic sport.
#cats
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A picture of my lap, with my open book (JRR Tolkien’s biography by Carpenter) wedged between two tabby cats, one above and one below the book.
August 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Currently reading Vol 2 of Tolkien’s poems, alongside Carpenter’s biography (also glad that I recently read Tolkien’s Letters)—together they give a good timeline to understand where he was when and what he was writing at the time. Need to read Shippey’s Road to M-E next.
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Cover of the book The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien (1919-1931) showing an illustration he drew of a bird amongst a vine of flowers.
August 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Next in my 2025 quest to Read All the Tolkien Things: Humphrey Carpenter’s classic biography.
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Cover of Humphrey Carepenter’s book JRR Tolkien, a Biography, showing a picture of the Professor himself.
July 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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You know you’ve watched #RingsofPower a million times when you read this in The Fall of Númenor and picture THAT smirk. Can’t wait to see this scene on screen!
Text from The Fall of Númenor: “But Ar-Pharazón was not yet deceived, and it came into his mind that, for the better keeping of Sauron and of his oaths of fealty, he should be brought to Númenor, there to dwell as a hostage for himself and all his servants in Middle-Earth. To this Sauron assented as one constrained, yet in his secret thought he received it gladly, for it chimed indeed with his desire. ‘This is a hard doom,’ said Sauron, ‘but great kings must have their will,’ and he submitted as one under compulsion, concealing his delight; for things had fallen out according to his design.” Two pictures of Sauron from the Rings of Power series, one of his Annatar guise on the left and of his Halbrand guise on the right, both smirking.
July 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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How I spent my summer vacation: reading All The Tolkien Things with my cats.
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My tabby cat Blake on the left and the book The Fall of Númenor by JRR Tolkien on the right.
July 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Current reading: one Tolkien tale (that I picked because I love Túrin’s story so much) and two Tolkien-related books (that I picked because they are beautiful). A great mix of Tolkien’s love for stories and our love for Tolkien’s work. ❤️
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The covers of three books: The Making of Middle-Earth, by Christopher Snyder The Art of Mercy in Middle-Earth: Paintings Inspired by Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Miriam Ellis The Story of Kullervo, by JRR Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger
July 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I’ve been taking my lazy hobbity-self out on walks in our local parks, and trying to ignore the fact that I only have 3 weeks of summer vacation left!
Map of The Shire showing distance walked, from the Conqueror app, The Hobbit Virtual Challenge. 12 miles completed.
July 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Finishing up the last of Tolkien’s three Great Tales. (Last because it’s my least favorite of the three, although I do appreciate the connection to Tolkien’s own love story). For me, Huan will always be the true hero of this story!
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Book cover of Tolkien’s Beren and Lúthien, showing Beren walking alongside Huan the hound who has Lúthien riding on his back.
July 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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If I was in charge of the Enmys, these two would win all the awards.
#RingsofPower
Angry Annatar holding a spear about to stab tortured and wounded Celebrimbor in the background while in the forge of Eregion. Scene from Rings of Power, Season 2
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Finally found the motivation to get my lazy Hobbit butt outside and walking!
#TheHobbit
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Screenshot of The Conqueror app showing a map of the Shire with a marker with my initials on it at the starting point at Bag End, from the Hobbit Virtual Challenge. The more I walk, the farther my marker will move on the map!
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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How does one tiny book generate so many tears? 😭
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Cover of the book Bilbo’s Last Song by JRR Tolkien and illustrated by Pauline Baynes. The illustration shows Bilbo and a group of Elves on horseback arriving at the sea on their way to sail to the West.
July 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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When your birthday coincides with Prime Day and you “accidentally” add a dozen new books to your #Tolkien shelves…
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Three bookshelves filled with various Tolkien books.
July 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Current status on my quest to Read All the Tolkien Things: alternating between The Fall of Gondolin and poetry from the absolutely gorgeous 3-volume set of The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien. 💙💙💙
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Two book covers; The Fall of Gondolin on the left showing Alan Lee’s drawing of the city Gondolin with Tuor in the foreground looking down at it; and the cover of The Collected Poems on the right showing an illustrated tree by Tolkien.
July 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Reading my favorite tragedy, because it’s July 4 and Glaurung would be so proud of America this year.
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#IndependenceDay
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Book cover of The Children of Húrin by JRR Tolkien
July 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Alternating between The Letters of JRRT and these short stories, and it’s just delightful.
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#SummerReading
The contents page of Tolkien’s Tales From the Perilous Realm, showing the titles Roverandom, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major, Leaf By Niggle, On Fairy-Stories, and the introduction by Tom Shippey and afterward by Alan Lee.
June 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My next Tolkien read. I’m only on page 30 and already laughed so many times. Man, I wish I could’ve met this guy! We could’ve been besties. ❤️
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Cover of the book The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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As a person of faith, this paragraph from The Nature of Middle-Earth hits like a ton of bricks. Even the Valar screwed up, trusting themselves to make decisions without consulting Eru, and in trying to do good, actually caused a lot of bad stuff to happen instead.
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Paragraph reads: This is said because the invitation given to the Eldar to remove to Valinor and live unendangered by Melkor was not in fact according to the design of Eru. It arose from anxiety, and it might be said from failure in trust of Eru, from anxiety and fear of Melkor, and the decision of the Eldar to accept the invitation was due to the overwhelming effect of their contact, while still in their inexperienced youth, with the bliss of Aman and the beauty and majesty of the Valar. It had disastrous consequences in diminishing the Elves of Middle-Earth and so depriving Men of a large measure of the intended help and teaching of their “elder brethren”, and exposing them more dangerously to the power and deceits of Melkor. Also, since it was in fact alien to the nature of the Elves to live under protection in Aman, and not (as was intended) in Middle-Earth, one consequence was the revolt of the Noldor.
June 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Continuing my 2025 quest to Read All the Tolkien Things; a quest that is fully supported by my lap cats.
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#Luinellë
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The book The Nature of Middle-Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien on my lap in between a sleeping orange cat on the left and a sleeping grey tabby cat on the right.
June 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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All of us nerds united against fascism today ❤️
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#NoKings
A LOTR fan wearing a helmet and holding the horse flag of Rohan A LOTR fan holding a sign that says “Where was Chuck Schumer when the Westfold fell?” and a Star Wars fan holding a Rebellion flag. Protestor in a costume of Trump wearing a striped prison outfit. Two ladies holding up their middle fingers to a Trump flag behind them.
June 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I think Blake is judging me for watching LOTR for the millionth time. (Or maybe he just disapproves of the omission of the Scouring of the Shire.)
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My cat looking annoyed, curled up next to my laptop, which is playing the RotK movie scene of Frodo and Gollum wrestling over the Ring inside Mount Doom.
June 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I’m on Book 12 of The History of Middle-Earth! I’m pretty sure I deserve some kind of official Tolkien nerd badge when I finish it. 🏆 🤓 💍
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Book cover of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Peoples of Middle-Earth showing three ships on the sea along a coast.
June 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM