thetolkienist.com Blog

No Roving Ranger this week!

Folks, I am moving this week to Jena in Thuringia – from Berlin – so there will not be a Roving Ranger Newsletter today. The newsletter will resume on March 9th – keeping...

The Thirty-First Roving Ranger

Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirty-first Roving Ranger newsletter. Events Andrew Higgins has the Tolkien Sessions line-up for Leeds IMC 2021. The winners of the January 2021 Character Design Challenge have...

The Thirtieth Roving Ranger

Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirtieth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events David Bratman has a look back at the last Tolkien Society Seminar. John D. Rateliff notes a few words on his...

The Twenty-Ninth Roving Ranger

Folks, a warm welcome to this, the twenty-ninth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events I would highly suggest to you to look up the International Tolkien Fellowship Facebook group for Tolkien-inspired events the world over....

The Twenty-Eighth Roving Ranger

Folks, a warm welcome to this, the twenty-eighth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events This weekend the sixth Urbana Theological Seminar’s Tolkien Conference is happening, this year online, and you can register for free. I...

The Twenty-Seventh Roving Ranger

Folks, a warm welcome to this, the twenty-seventh Roving Ranger newsletter. Events The Tolkien Society has opened nominations on their awards. Quite another kettle of fish but the Hugos also accept nominations now....

The Twenty-Sixth Roving Ranger

Folks, a warm welcome to this, the twenty-sixth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events Another Tolkien Society Tolkien Seminar is coming up and the speakers have been announced. This month’s Character Design Challenge topic, no....

The Twenty-Fifth Roving Ranger

Folks, a warm welcome to this, the twenty-fifth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic has a new talk coming up: D&D and Fantasy Fiction: Giants in the Oerth....

The Twenty-Fourth Roving Ranger

Folks, a warm welcome to this, the twenty-fourth Roving Ranger newsletter. PLEASE NOTE: The next Roving Ranger will be sent out on January 3rd, 2021! 🎄 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to...