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The Tolkienist’s Library: Update

I have added some titles to my library list at LibraryThing. When I started this I did not quite realise I might end up adding hundreds of titles but there you are 🙂 So...

J.R.R. Tolkien. Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, Silmarillion, Folio Editions

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Join the Tolkien Birthday Toast for 2013

J.R.R. Tolkien was born January, 3rd, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Tolkien fans from all over the world gather today to raise a glass to the man who brought us all together – “The...

Libraries are all you need (c) Marcel R. Aubron-Bülles

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The Tolkienist’s Library

After much deliberation I have started using LibraryThing to finally list up my own collection on primary and secondary materials on J.R.R. Tolkien, both his life and works. I will keep adding material to...

JRRT author sign at Wolvercote cemetary (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles

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Upcoming Category: International Tolkien Fellowship

One of the major goals of this website is to óffer societies, smials and special interest groups the opportunity of presenting themselves and their wonderful work – from all over the world. The Tolkien...

About the Inklings in the Eagle & Child (c) Marcel Aubron-Bülles

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75 reasons: David Bratman

Nearly a dozen years ago, a few months before Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring hit the big screen, a wise comment about it was made … in a web comic. Scott Kurtz’s PvP...

Tolkien Reading Day

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Happy 75th Birthday, Hobbit

On September 21st, 1937, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published and became an instant classic. Happy Birthday!   In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet...

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Picture by Marcel Aubron-Bülles

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The Tolkienist is coming online …

Thank you all very much for your patience. I have been horribly busy in the last couple of weeks, returning from Return of the Ring (I will be writing a review of this shortly)...