The Twentieth Roving Ranger
Folks,
a warm welcome to this, the twentieth Roving Ranger newsletter.
Events
French Tolkienist group Tolkiendil have invited John Garth for a chat this Friday. Join their discord for a talk about his latest book, Tolkien’s Worlds.
I would highly suggest to you to look up the International Tolkien Fellowship Facebook group for Tolkien-inspired events the world over.
Essays & Scholarship
If Eomonachus belegaerensis sounds Tolkienian to you, then you are right. A nice write-up tells you the basics, or you are lucky enough to have access to the Proceedings of the Royal Society‘s First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals.
In case you ever needed to do some research on Tolkien in Birmingham, the Library offers this introduction: Researching Birmingham Newspapers – your options.
You really should know more about snergs: When the Snergs book is NOT the Snergs book.
Reviews and Book News
Review on Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis, by Gina Dalfonzo.
Author Nina Stibbe mentions her mother reading The Hobbit and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to her at bedtime.
The UK publishers of Tolkien have informed fans of another edition of The Silmarillion. It does look gorgeous!
Franchise, merchandise and Amazon series
If you are interested in sharing your stories/ work/ poetry based on Tolkien TheOneRing.net has put out a call for writers.
Other stuff
Really nice post: A guided walk of Tolkien’s original Shire, in Birmingham.
Love that Tolkien is taken care of (don’t click the link if you are afraid of snakes!)
David Bratman went out and had a look around the places that inspired Ursula K. Le Guin after the devastating fires of the last months.
In other news
I am really sorry this Kickstarter about Harry-Potter-style real flying brooms did not work out.
John D. Rateliff has some great news on a forthcoming Dungeons & Dragons anthology.
The Blog Roll
These are blogs you really should be following if you’re interested in Tolkien …
Some of these, you may find, are not as active as one would hope; but even if they have not posted anything new for a long time they are repositories of great essays and research on all things Tolkienian and always worth your time. The blog roll – and this very newsletter! – has been inspired by Troels Forchammer’s Parma-kenta and his excellent Tolkien Transactions he did for seven years – they are still sorely missed!
Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, ‘Too Many Books and Never Enough’
Dimitra Fimi, ‘Dr. Dimitra Fimi’
Jason Fisher, ‘Lingwë — Musings of a Fish’
Douglas A. Anderson, ‘Tolkien and Fantasy’
John D. Rateliff — ‘Sacnoth’s Scriptorium’
John Garth, ‘John Garth’
David Bratman, ‘Kalimac’s Journal’
Jenny Dolfen, ‘Jenny’s Sketchbook’
Andrew Higgens, ‘Wotan’s Musings’
Anna Smol, ‘A Single Leaf’
Edmund Weiner, ‘Philoloblog’
Robin Anne Reid, her blog
Annalisa Palmer, her blog
Various, The Mythopoeic Society
Various (Bradford Eden, ed.) Journal of Tolkien Research (JTR)
Various, The Tolkien Society (TS)
Southfarthing Mathom
Various, The Mythopoeic Society, ‘The Horn of Rohan Redux’
Sue Bridgwater, ‘Skorn’
Tom Hilman, ‘Alas, not me’
Michael Martinez, ‘Middle-earth’
Bruce Charlton, ‘Tolkien’s The Notion Club Papers’
Various, ‘Middle-earth News’
Jeffrey R. Hawboldt, ‘Expressions of Substance’
Ryszard Viajante Derdzinski, ‘Tolknięty’
Stephen C. Winter, ‘Wisdom from The Lord of the Rings’
Troels Forchhammer, ‘Parma-kenta‘
Marcel Aubron-Bülles, ‘The Tolkienist‘
Jeremy Edmonds, ‘Tolkien Collector’s Guide‘
Aubrey, ‘Diverse Tolkien‘
Elyanna, ‘itariilles‘
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