The fortieth Roving Ranger
a warm welcome to this, the fortieth Roving Ranger newsletter.
Nota bene: This week it is a very short newsletter but enjoy nonetheless!
Events
Another Tolkien Lecture has been delivered, this time by Guy Gavriel Kay.
The Tolkien Sessions at this year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Franchise, merchandise and Amazon series
Film fans will be happy to see two of their favourite hobbits come to the airwaves: Merry & Pip are doing a podcast – The Friendship Onion.
Other stuff
As we quickly move over into the age of Neverending Stories this full list of Disney plans on Star Wars will keep you busy – 16 films and series so far.
An X-Wing is getting the museum treatment with the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
House of Dragon, a Game of Thrones prequel, is much more open about its production than a certain other series.
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 Hillman, ‘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‘
Picture credit: Estë. Healer of Weariness and Lúthien, Daughter of Twilight by Magdalena Olechny. Please her website and her 31 Ladies of Arda.
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