MY OXFORD YEAR (2025), review
A running commentary, mild rant, and appreciation by Marcel R. Bülles aka the Tolkienist I was born to do a review of this particular romantic comedy. I will tell you why. I have...
Author: Marcel R. Bülles
Not a Tolkien quote: He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
It is time for another edition of Not a Tolkien quote and this time ’tis about silence. It is my first quote with Bluesky that felt so off that I needed to have...
The Tolkien Tapestries in Paris – an image gallery, commented upon (part II/II)
This is the second post on my visit to the Tolkien Tapestries (and carpets) exhibition at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris which ran from March 21st-May 18th, 2025. It is a rather...
A visit to the Tolkien Tapestries in Paris (part I/II)
This is the last week that the Tolkien Tapestries (and carpets) as woven in Aubusson with the Cité internationale de la tapisserie can be viewed at the beautiful Collège des Bernardins in Paris....
Posts published with Steady for the months of February – April 2025
All of the material published with thetolkienist.com will always be free for you to peruse as well as some of my work with my crowdfunding site over at steadyhq.com/thetolkienist. Having said that, I...
An impressive first edition – the Omentië Nolwë conference in Zurich, Switzerland
I had the great pleasure and honour to be welcomed to the first ever conference organised by the Schweizerische Tolkienfördergesellschaft (Swiss Tolkien Friends’ Association) and the local smial of the German Tolkien Society,...
Omentië Nolwë – a publication list of speakers present
This is a limited list of publications by the speakers at the first Omentië Nolwë.
F2M2: How Aragorn is Sherlock Holmes and Germanicus and was married to Minerva McGonagall
In this fourth edition of my irregular column F2M2, that is, Fun Facts on Middle-earth related Media, I will continue with another actor who had in some way to do with a production...
“Hearses at Daybreak”: How a Tolkien birthday card has made the rounds on the Internet
It is always wonderful to find a decent birthday invitation card. It adds both style and the opportunity to make a very good point – of how the birthday is going to go....
Posts published with Steady for the months of September 2024 – January 2025
All of the material published with thetolkienist.com will always be free for you to peruse as well as some of my work with my crowdfunding site over at steadyhq.com/thetolkienist. Having said that, I...
I told my parents there is a second hand bookstore around the corner – and that I love Tolkien. This is what happened…
Going into 2025 I wanted to do a little post on how lucky I can count myself to have my parents just the way they are. And I will give you an example...
The Travelling Tolkienist: The fan screening of “War of the Rohirrim” in Lucerne, Switzerland, was a blast
This is a report of my fairly spontaneous visit to an absolutely lovely event in Lucerne: the fan screening of Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim in Switzerland’s most popular museum,...