The Fifth Roving Ranger
olks, a warm welcome to this, the fifth Roving Ranger newsletter! Events The Tolkien Society of the Magallanes Region in Chile has to go online as well with their VI Concilio Tolkien and...
Category: News
What do US readers turn to in times of COVID-19? The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (and others)
press release by the NPD Group, a US-American market research company, sums up the information on the e-book market in the United States for the month of April 2020, the first month the...
The Fourth Roving Ranger
olks, a warm welcome to this, the fourth Roving Ranger newsletter! Events On July 23rd, TORn and John Garth will do a talk on his latest book & the Amazon series with Comic...
Project: 200+ posts to check, correct and update
Right now I have started the process of updating every single blog post with TheTolkienist.com because of changes in plug-ins, outdated and/or changed information etc. I will keep you posted on my progress.
The Third Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the third Roving Ranger newsletter! Events From July 6 – 12, 2020, Tolkien Gen Week happened, a fan fiction event moderated via tumblr. The Tolkien Society Pub...
The Second Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the second Roving Ranger newsletter! Events MMORPG Lord of the Rings: Online is celebrating the ‘Great Wedding‘ right now, that is, the wedding of Arwen and Aragorn....
The very first Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the very first of (hopefully many) Roving Ranger newsletters! As I am writing this the temperature is climbing in Berlin, the fan working quietly in the background....
Tolkien MeMes #2. Exhibiting Tolkien at Berlin’s State & Central Library, Nov 2012 – February 2013
n Februar 2012 the then secretary of the German Tolkien Society (GTS) received an email from the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB): Liebe Tolkien-Fans, ich arbeite in der Zentral– und Landesbibliothek Berlin und...
The Mountains of Titan belong to Tolkien – and planitiae and labyrinthi to Dune
he International Astronomical Union (IAU) and its Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) are responsible for selecting official names for features on solar system bodies. Luckily for Tolkien fans in 2012 his...
Revamping my Tolkien and Middle-earth Memorabilia Collection: Ravel’s Bolero and LibraryThing
fter another of many moves and the fact that the COVID-19 crisis has changed all of our lives I remembered a wonderful blog post by Tim Spalding, LibraryThing Founder and President, from March...
“(…) Something has gone crack.” Christopher Tolkien dies at the age of 95
local French newspaper broke the news today that Christopher Tolkien has passed away last night at the age of 95. Tolkien who had for many years lived in the French department Var in...
“You know nothing, Jon Sauron!”
major cast announcement by the team of Lord of the Rings on Prime has Tolkien fandom in a kerfuffle. However, no new information has become available on the actual storyline to be presented...