Johnny Samson
@johnnysamson.bsky.social
Writer, musician, extra. Author of The Road to Nowhere, and Diary of a City Guard! Haloumi fan.
https://roadtonowhere.online
https://roadtonowhere.online
Much to my own surprise I've managed to write a second installment of my behind-the-scenes Rings of Power series within the space of a week.
So here is Part 16 - Elsewhere in Middle-earth...
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#RingsOfPower #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor #Elendil
So here is Part 16 - Elsewhere in Middle-earth...
roadtonowhere.online/elsewhere-in...
#RingsOfPower #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor #Elendil
July 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Much to my own surprise I've managed to write a second installment of my behind-the-scenes Rings of Power series within the space of a week.
So here is Part 16 - Elsewhere in Middle-earth...
roadtonowhere.online/elsewhere-in...
#RingsOfPower #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor #Elendil
So here is Part 16 - Elsewhere in Middle-earth...
roadtonowhere.online/elsewhere-in...
#RingsOfPower #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor #Elendil
darn tootin
July 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
darn tootin
Chapter 15 out now 😀🥴🔽
Alright, part 15 of my Diary of a City Guard series is up now - "There Are Some Who Would Deem That Not Wise".
Another behind the scenes look at Rings of Power, in which I have a Big Moment and also struggle to stay on topic.
#Tolkien #RingsOfPower #LOTR
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Another behind the scenes look at Rings of Power, in which I have a Big Moment and also struggle to stay on topic.
#Tolkien #RingsOfPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/there-are-so...
July 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Chapter 15 out now 😀🥴🔽
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when a company announces they're going to start using Al in their products all I hear is "our stuff is about to get noticeably shittier, but you should be excited because it'll be cheaper for us"
July 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
when a company announces they're going to start using Al in their products all I hear is "our stuff is about to get noticeably shittier, but you should be excited because it'll be cheaper for us"
Alright, part 15 of my Diary of a City Guard series is up now - "There Are Some Who Would Deem That Not Wise".
Another behind the scenes look at Rings of Power, in which I have a Big Moment and also struggle to stay on topic.
#Tolkien #RingsOfPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/there-are-so...
Another behind the scenes look at Rings of Power, in which I have a Big Moment and also struggle to stay on topic.
#Tolkien #RingsOfPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/there-are-so...
July 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Alright, part 15 of my Diary of a City Guard series is up now - "There Are Some Who Would Deem That Not Wise".
Another behind the scenes look at Rings of Power, in which I have a Big Moment and also struggle to stay on topic.
#Tolkien #RingsOfPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/there-are-so...
Another behind the scenes look at Rings of Power, in which I have a Big Moment and also struggle to stay on topic.
#Tolkien #RingsOfPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/there-are-so...
I have finished instalment #15, "There Are Some That Would Not Deem That Wise", and I shall try and get it uploaded today!
In the meantime here's a link to the very first instalment, "I'm Going On An Adventure"
roadtonowhere.online/im-going-on-...
#ROP #RingsOfPower #Tolkien #LOTR
In the meantime here's a link to the very first instalment, "I'm Going On An Adventure"
roadtonowhere.online/im-going-on-...
#ROP #RingsOfPower #Tolkien #LOTR
July 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I have finished instalment #15, "There Are Some That Would Not Deem That Wise", and I shall try and get it uploaded today!
In the meantime here's a link to the very first instalment, "I'm Going On An Adventure"
roadtonowhere.online/im-going-on-...
#ROP #RingsOfPower #Tolkien #LOTR
In the meantime here's a link to the very first instalment, "I'm Going On An Adventure"
roadtonowhere.online/im-going-on-...
#ROP #RingsOfPower #Tolkien #LOTR
I have been too busy lately recording new music to write much, but I've finally started work on the next instalment of the Diary of a City Guard - I shall attempt to finish it this evening!
July 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I have been too busy lately recording new music to write much, but I've finally started work on the next instalment of the Diary of a City Guard - I shall attempt to finish it this evening!
Reposted by Johnny Samson
C.S. Lewis' advice on writing...
July 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
C.S. Lewis' advice on writing...
I feel seen.
May 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I feel seen.
"Even the Smaug of Jackson’s Hobbit movies would be looking around going hey yeah, this is actually quite a lot of gold."
Installment #14 of Diary of a City Guard is up now - All That is Gold is Glittering!
In which we take a look at this scene from the perspective of the real heroes i.e. the City Guards.
#RingsOfPower #ROP #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor
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In which we take a look at this scene from the perspective of the real heroes i.e. the City Guards.
#RingsOfPower #ROP #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor
roadtonowhere.online/all-that-is-...
May 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"Even the Smaug of Jackson’s Hobbit movies would be looking around going hey yeah, this is actually quite a lot of gold."
Reposted by Johnny Samson
If you want to know about books that don’t exist you can just listen to me talk about my unfinished WIPs.
May 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If you want to know about books that don’t exist you can just listen to me talk about my unfinished WIPs.
Installment #14 of Diary of a City Guard is up now - All That is Gold is Glittering!
In which we take a look at this scene from the perspective of the real heroes i.e. the City Guards.
#RingsOfPower #ROP #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor
roadtonowhere.online/all-that-is-...
In which we take a look at this scene from the perspective of the real heroes i.e. the City Guards.
#RingsOfPower #ROP #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor
roadtonowhere.online/all-that-is-...
May 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Installment #14 of Diary of a City Guard is up now - All That is Gold is Glittering!
In which we take a look at this scene from the perspective of the real heroes i.e. the City Guards.
#RingsOfPower #ROP #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor
roadtonowhere.online/all-that-is-...
In which we take a look at this scene from the perspective of the real heroes i.e. the City Guards.
#RingsOfPower #ROP #Tolkien #LOTR #Numenor
roadtonowhere.online/all-that-is-...
Ok, I've been too busy to write any more Diary of a City Guard installments over the last couple of months... I got distracted and have written an album's worth of songs instead. I shall endeavour to get a few more episodes written over the next coupla weeks!
May 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Ok, I've been too busy to write any more Diary of a City Guard installments over the last couple of months... I got distracted and have written an album's worth of songs instead. I shall endeavour to get a few more episodes written over the next coupla weeks!
Hey that's me!
For #NumenorDay if you haven't read it yet, please check out @johnnysamson.bsky.social's blog about being a Numenorean City Guard on the Season 1 set of #TROP
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May 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hey that's me!
Reposted by Johnny Samson
Still can't get behind the word "content." Maybe it makes me pretentious, but I could never introduce myself as a "content-creator." If you write or sing or draw or make videos, if you have a voice and a creative vision, what you do is not content. It's communication.
March 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Still can't get behind the word "content." Maybe it makes me pretentious, but I could never introduce myself as a "content-creator." If you write or sing or draw or make videos, if you have a voice and a creative vision, what you do is not content. It's communication.
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And in a surprising development, here is #13, "The Great Tales Never End". In which this Númenórean Guard details his weapons training program for Rings of Power, and pulls out of the bag a Tolkien reference at the very last.
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#RoP #Tolkien #LOTR
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#RoP #Tolkien #LOTR
March 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
And in a surprising development, here is #13, "The Great Tales Never End". In which this Númenórean Guard details his weapons training program for Rings of Power, and pulls out of the bag a Tolkien reference at the very last.
roadtonowhere.online/the-great-ta...
#RoP #Tolkien #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/the-great-ta...
#RoP #Tolkien #LOTR
Reposted by Johnny Samson
Kia ora, here's Diary of a City Guard #12, my series of adventures as an extra on Rings of Power.
"The Old That Is Strong Does Not Whither", in which I give an insight into the process of crowbarring a Tolkien reference I can use as a title into each post.
roadtonowhere.online/the-old-that...
"The Old That Is Strong Does Not Whither", in which I give an insight into the process of crowbarring a Tolkien reference I can use as a title into each post.
roadtonowhere.online/the-old-that...
March 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Kia ora, here's Diary of a City Guard #12, my series of adventures as an extra on Rings of Power.
"The Old That Is Strong Does Not Whither", in which I give an insight into the process of crowbarring a Tolkien reference I can use as a title into each post.
roadtonowhere.online/the-old-that...
"The Old That Is Strong Does Not Whither", in which I give an insight into the process of crowbarring a Tolkien reference I can use as a title into each post.
roadtonowhere.online/the-old-that...
And in a surprising development, here is #13, "The Great Tales Never End". In which this Númenórean Guard details his weapons training program for Rings of Power, and pulls out of the bag a Tolkien reference at the very last.
roadtonowhere.online/the-great-ta...
#RoP #Tolkien #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/the-great-ta...
#RoP #Tolkien #LOTR
March 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
And in a surprising development, here is #13, "The Great Tales Never End". In which this Númenórean Guard details his weapons training program for Rings of Power, and pulls out of the bag a Tolkien reference at the very last.
roadtonowhere.online/the-great-ta...
#RoP #Tolkien #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/the-great-ta...
#RoP #Tolkien #LOTR
Kia ora, here's Diary of a City Guard #12, my series of adventures as an extra on Rings of Power.
"The Old That Is Strong Does Not Whither", in which I give an insight into the process of crowbarring a Tolkien reference I can use as a title into each post.
roadtonowhere.online/the-old-that...
"The Old That Is Strong Does Not Whither", in which I give an insight into the process of crowbarring a Tolkien reference I can use as a title into each post.
roadtonowhere.online/the-old-that...
March 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Kia ora, here's Diary of a City Guard #12, my series of adventures as an extra on Rings of Power.
"The Old That Is Strong Does Not Whither", in which I give an insight into the process of crowbarring a Tolkien reference I can use as a title into each post.
roadtonowhere.online/the-old-that...
"The Old That Is Strong Does Not Whither", in which I give an insight into the process of crowbarring a Tolkien reference I can use as a title into each post.
roadtonowhere.online/the-old-that...
I have two more installments of my Diary of a City Guard #TROP series ready to post soon!
In the meantime, have a read of an excerpt from my book The Road To Nowhere - in which my band must flee to avoid a gruesome death at the hands of a gang of 10 year olds :)
roadtonowhere.online/the-photosho...
In the meantime, have a read of an excerpt from my book The Road To Nowhere - in which my band must flee to avoid a gruesome death at the hands of a gang of 10 year olds :)
roadtonowhere.online/the-photosho...
The Band Photoshoot – The Road to Nowhere
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February 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I have two more installments of my Diary of a City Guard #TROP series ready to post soon!
In the meantime, have a read of an excerpt from my book The Road To Nowhere - in which my band must flee to avoid a gruesome death at the hands of a gang of 10 year olds :)
roadtonowhere.online/the-photosho...
In the meantime, have a read of an excerpt from my book The Road To Nowhere - in which my band must flee to avoid a gruesome death at the hands of a gang of 10 year olds :)
roadtonowhere.online/the-photosho...
In that case I'll share it again 😁
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#RoP #Ringsofpower #Tolkien #LOTR #Galadriel
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#RoP #Ringsofpower #Tolkien #LOTR #Galadriel
February 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In that case I'll share it again 😁
roadtonowhere.online/that-was-an-...
#RoP #Ringsofpower #Tolkien #LOTR #Galadriel
roadtonowhere.online/that-was-an-...
#RoP #Ringsofpower #Tolkien #LOTR #Galadriel
Thanks for the shout-out for my Diary of a City Guard series Marcel!
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including:
World record for LotR; Hobbit in Philly and Missouri; the MSU Tolkien fellowship; Diary of a City Guard; outstanding art; Ondolindë; Tiny Glade; GRRM in physics and more...
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Including:
World record for LotR; Hobbit in Philly and Missouri; the MSU Tolkien fellowship; Diary of a City Guard; outstanding art; Ondolindë; Tiny Glade; GRRM in physics and more...
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The One hundred and twenty-third Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #123 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week, curated by the Tolkienist.
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February 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thanks for the shout-out for my Diary of a City Guard series Marcel!
In case ya missed it.
In which I discover the books are a bit of a hindrance when it comes to working out what the hell is going on on the set of Rings of Power.
In which I discover the books are a bit of a hindrance when it comes to working out what the hell is going on on the set of Rings of Power.
New installment of Diary of a City Guard up now (my series of posts about being an extra in Rings of Power) - in which I discover the books are a bit of a hindrance when it comes to working out what the hell is going on!
#TROP #Tolkien #RingsofPower #LOTR
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#TROP #Tolkien #RingsofPower #LOTR
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February 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
In case ya missed it.
In which I discover the books are a bit of a hindrance when it comes to working out what the hell is going on on the set of Rings of Power.
In which I discover the books are a bit of a hindrance when it comes to working out what the hell is going on on the set of Rings of Power.
Reposted by Johnny Samson
The hijacking of the entire federal govt of the US has been driven ENTIRELY by an incredible mass freakout from a bunch of white men over the loss of their privilege.
This is their backlash.
That’s what we are witnessing.
They want you to think that they are powerful and strong.
They are not.
This is their backlash.
That’s what we are witnessing.
They want you to think that they are powerful and strong.
They are not.
February 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The hijacking of the entire federal govt of the US has been driven ENTIRELY by an incredible mass freakout from a bunch of white men over the loss of their privilege.
This is their backlash.
That’s what we are witnessing.
They want you to think that they are powerful and strong.
They are not.
This is their backlash.
That’s what we are witnessing.
They want you to think that they are powerful and strong.
They are not.
New installment of Diary of a City Guard up now (my series of posts about being an extra in Rings of Power) - in which I discover the books are a bit of a hindrance when it comes to working out what the hell is going on!
#TROP #Tolkien #RingsofPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/that-was-an-...
#TROP #Tolkien #RingsofPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/that-was-an-...
January 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
New installment of Diary of a City Guard up now (my series of posts about being an extra in Rings of Power) - in which I discover the books are a bit of a hindrance when it comes to working out what the hell is going on!
#TROP #Tolkien #RingsofPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/that-was-an-...
#TROP #Tolkien #RingsofPower #LOTR
roadtonowhere.online/that-was-an-...