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The One hundred and sixty-first Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #161 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
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Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including:
A new podcast - A Talk with the Tolkienist 🤩; Michael Tolkien in Oxford; write at the Lamb & Flag; PPP CfP; Túrin & Doom of Men; mushrooms; Into the Heart of Middle-earth; sounds & music, and much more...
Including:
A new podcast - A Talk with the Tolkienist 🤩; Michael Tolkien in Oxford; write at the Lamb & Flag; PPP CfP; Túrin & Doom of Men; mushrooms; Into the Heart of Middle-earth; sounds & music, and much more...
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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
📆 Week 142 (11/11/25): “The Great War”
Armistice Day (11 NOV). We will remember them.
#TolkienTuesday #Armistice
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🧙♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 142 (11/11/25): “The Great War”
Armistice Day (11 NOV). We will remember them.
#TolkienTuesday #Armistice
📆 Week 142 (11/11/25): “The Great War”
Armistice Day (11 NOV). We will remember them.
#TolkienTuesday #Armistice
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With ICE and other extremist groups trying to claim #Tolkien, this old post still holds up:
“Tolkien does not simply give us hope for a better future or strength to endure hardship. Instead, the text [is] a call to action, a challenge...”
luke-shelton.com/2021/01/08/r...
“Tolkien does not simply give us hope for a better future or strength to endure hardship. Instead, the text [is] a call to action, a challenge...”
luke-shelton.com/2021/01/08/r...
Reading Tolkien during the Insurrection
I happened to be reading the final three chapters of The Lord of the Rings this week as supporters of an incompetent president attempted an insurrection in America. I am going through the book with…
luke-shelton.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
With ICE and other extremist groups trying to claim #Tolkien, this old post still holds up:
“Tolkien does not simply give us hope for a better future or strength to endure hardship. Instead, the text [is] a call to action, a challenge...”
luke-shelton.com/2021/01/08/r...
“Tolkien does not simply give us hope for a better future or strength to endure hardship. Instead, the text [is] a call to action, a challenge...”
luke-shelton.com/2021/01/08/r...
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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
#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
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
#Remembrance
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Congratulations 🎉💐🍸🍹
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)! 😅
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)! 😅
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Congratulations 🎉💐🍸🍹
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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
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 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Hey I got me another new song out! Available in all the usual places that new songs come out.
If you can name the six song titles referenced in the lyrics, plus the artists, then you win a prize 😁
If you can name the six song titles referenced in the lyrics, plus the artists, then you win a prize 😁
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hey I got me another new song out! Available in all the usual places that new songs come out.
If you can name the six song titles referenced in the lyrics, plus the artists, then you win a prize 😁
If you can name the six song titles referenced in the lyrics, plus the artists, then you win a prize 😁
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At 4 pm this Friday, November 7th, join Theo Downes-Le Guin and Oregon Contemporary director Blake Shell for an introduction to A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin—part of the Portland Book Festival’s Cover to Cover program!
Details: www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-rea...
Details: www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-rea...
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
At 4 pm this Friday, November 7th, join Theo Downes-Le Guin and Oregon Contemporary director Blake Shell for an introduction to A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin—part of the Portland Book Festival’s Cover to Cover program!
Details: www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-rea...
Details: www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-rea...
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The Signed Limited edition of The Lord of the Rings in cool sliptray(?) box is now orderable for everyone outside of the USA. About 1/4 sold out already since going live a few hours ago. #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings #ad
The Lord of the Rings Signed Limited Edition
Three-volume limited edition set of The Lord of the Rings illustrated throughout by acclaimed Tolkien artist, Alan Lee. It features exclusive new paintings and dozens of illustrations appearing for th...
harpercollins.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Signed Limited edition of The Lord of the Rings in cool sliptray(?) box is now orderable for everyone outside of the USA. About 1/4 sold out already since going live a few hours ago. #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings #ad
If you happen to have seen some of the mental diarrhea Shmusk dumped into social media recently... here is a fairly nice piece to read countering that. #Tolkien
kalimac.blogspot.com/2025/11/musk...
kalimac.blogspot.com/2025/11/musk...
Muskery
There have been other articles published, analyzing Elon Musk's peculiar misreading of The Lord of the Rings , but I'd like to unpack it a...
kalimac.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If you happen to have seen some of the mental diarrhea Shmusk dumped into social media recently... here is a fairly nice piece to read countering that. #Tolkien
kalimac.blogspot.com/2025/11/musk...
kalimac.blogspot.com/2025/11/musk...
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This is the biggest full circle connection in my career.
Over two years ago a designer with Random House (thank you Nicole Block!!) working on a Dungeons&Dragons and Stranger Things tie-in contacted me about the old D&D art she had see me share online from my youth...
Over two years ago a designer with Random House (thank you Nicole Block!!) working on a Dungeons&Dragons and Stranger Things tie-in contacted me about the old D&D art she had see me share online from my youth...
November 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is the biggest full circle connection in my career.
Over two years ago a designer with Random House (thank you Nicole Block!!) working on a Dungeons&Dragons and Stranger Things tie-in contacted me about the old D&D art she had see me share online from my youth...
Over two years ago a designer with Random House (thank you Nicole Block!!) working on a Dungeons&Dragons and Stranger Things tie-in contacted me about the old D&D art she had see me share online from my youth...
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Good morning America! Today is the paperback publication day of my #StarTrekSNW novel Asylum! It's such a belter they gave it an award. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #UnaByUna
www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...
www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum [McCormack, Una] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum
www.amazon.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Good morning America! Today is the paperback publication day of my #StarTrekSNW novel Asylum! It's such a belter they gave it an award. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #UnaByUna
www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...
www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...
That is... impressive 😊🤩
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
That is... impressive 😊🤩
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including:
A new podcast - A Talk with the Tolkienist 🤩; Michael Tolkien in Oxford; write at the Lamb & Flag; PPP CfP; Túrin & Doom of Men; mushrooms; Into the Heart of Middle-earth; sounds & music, and much more...
Including:
A new podcast - A Talk with the Tolkienist 🤩; Michael Tolkien in Oxford; write at the Lamb & Flag; PPP CfP; Túrin & Doom of Men; mushrooms; Into the Heart of Middle-earth; sounds & music, and much more...
The One hundred and sixty-first Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #161 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
steady.page
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including:
A new podcast - A Talk with the Tolkienist 🤩; Michael Tolkien in Oxford; write at the Lamb & Flag; PPP CfP; Túrin & Doom of Men; mushrooms; Into the Heart of Middle-earth; sounds & music, and much more...
Including:
A new podcast - A Talk with the Tolkienist 🤩; Michael Tolkien in Oxford; write at the Lamb & Flag; PPP CfP; Túrin & Doom of Men; mushrooms; Into the Heart of Middle-earth; sounds & music, and much more...
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Thank you everyone for a wonderful World Fantasy 2025. A convention takes the committee, volunteers, artists, authors, editors, jurors and many others. Our special thanks of course goes to our guests: Suniti Namjoshi, Vincent Chong, Nick Landau, Vivian Cheung, Joanne Harris and Ramsay Campbell.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thank you everyone for a wonderful World Fantasy 2025. A convention takes the committee, volunteers, artists, authors, editors, jurors and many others. Our special thanks of course goes to our guests: Suniti Namjoshi, Vincent Chong, Nick Landau, Vivian Cheung, Joanne Harris and Ramsay Campbell.
Keeping fingerrrrrrrrrs crossed!!!! #AwesomeArt
Working on a new book proposal at the mo...a semi-perilous dungeon-crawl through ‘70s & ‘80s fantasy art in the unreliable company of a wide-eyed teenage wannabe-artist fanboy (me) and a wizened bearded academic (also me). To put you in mind of that era, here's Jimmy Cauty's 1976 classic #Tolkien
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Keeping fingerrrrrrrrrs crossed!!!! #AwesomeArt
Is this a good idea? Should I be doing this? I don't know.
But judging from my very first chat with Sonja Virta on Tove Jansson's illustrations for "The Hobbit" I think the answer should be yes.
Some small audio thingies in the recording, all my fault, I'll certainly improve over time...
But judging from my very first chat with Sonja Virta on Tove Jansson's illustrations for "The Hobbit" I think the answer should be yes.
Some small audio thingies in the recording, all my fault, I'll certainly improve over time...
Tove Jansson's illustrations of "The Hobbit" - special guest: Sonja Virta
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November 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Is this a good idea? Should I be doing this? I don't know.
But judging from my very first chat with Sonja Virta on Tove Jansson's illustrations for "The Hobbit" I think the answer should be yes.
Some small audio thingies in the recording, all my fault, I'll certainly improve over time...
But judging from my very first chat with Sonja Virta on Tove Jansson's illustrations for "The Hobbit" I think the answer should be yes.
Some small audio thingies in the recording, all my fault, I'll certainly improve over time...
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Angus McBride's 1997 pic An Unexpected Party (made for Iron Crown's Middle-earth Puzzles set), has the retro styling of an old Saturday matinee film. I feel like it shouldn't be my cup of tea, but then I get lost in the detail and the awesome McBride-ness and it's just too cool not to love #Tolkien
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Angus McBride's 1997 pic An Unexpected Party (made for Iron Crown's Middle-earth Puzzles set), has the retro styling of an old Saturday matinee film. I feel like it shouldn't be my cup of tea, but then I get lost in the detail and the awesome McBride-ness and it's just too cool not to love #Tolkien
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Welcome back to the second day of the Tolkien Seminar. We start with Norbert Schürer's Advertising The Hobbit.
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Welcome back to the second day of the Tolkien Seminar. We start with Norbert Schürer's Advertising The Hobbit.
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Primera jornada del #Tolkien Seminar de la @germantolksoc.bsky.social «Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt». Primero hemos escuchado a Allan Turner, que ha hablado sobre los editores del Profesor, y ahora es el turno de Jonathan Nauman, hablando sobre Tolkien y los Unwin.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Primera jornada del #Tolkien Seminar de la @germantolksoc.bsky.social «Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt». Primero hemos escuchado a Allan Turner, que ha hablado sobre los editores del Profesor, y ahora es el turno de Jonathan Nauman, hablando sobre Tolkien y los Unwin.
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