Tolkien and Diversity: A Seminar Report
No Tolkien Society Seminar has ever attracted as much attention as the one held digitally on the weekend of July 3rd/4th. The announcement of “Tolkien and Diversity” was met with enthusiastic expressions of...
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Review: George Allen & Unwin. A Remembrancer by Rayner Unwin
Ludlow : Merlin Unwin Books, 2021.Publication date, UK: March 5th.Pages: 304.ISBN: 9781873674376 Summary: George Allen & Unwin as a publishing imprint reflected a cross-section of the intellectual achievement of the twentieth century. In...
The fortieth Roving Ranger
Folks, 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...
The Thirty-Eighth Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirty-eighth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events Bookings are now open with the J.R. Tolkien, one of two sailing ships now in the north of Germany as they cannot...
The Thirty-Seventh Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirty-seventh Roving Ranger newsletter. Events Last Saturday a lovely event came together via Twitter and organiser Laura Mabingi (Laura McNamee) using the hashtag #DrawSwordsTogether. A fun...
The Thirty-Sixth Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirty-sixth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events MythCon 51 will be all online, news on this and next year’s MythCon. Essays & Scholarship John D. Rateliff tackles the...
The thirty-fifth Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirty-fifth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events The Tolkien Lecture Series, based at Pembroke College, Oxford, has announced this year’s speaker (May 11): Guy Gavriel Kay. The fantasy...
The Thirty-Fourth Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirty-fourth Roving Ranger newsletter. Events On a personal note: Tolkien Reading Day 2021 has come and gone and this year’s topic, hope & courage, certainly resonated...
Tolkien Shop: The only brick-and-mortar store dedicated entirely to J.R.R. Tolkien – in the world
In the beautiful city of Leiden there is a store Tolkien fans the world over should try to visit at least once in their life times – the Tolkien Shop (or Tolkien Winkel...
Tolkien Reading Day – Global Map of Events
It has been way too long: Seven years ago I did a list of events on the Tolkien Reading Day 2014 so people could have a quick look at what was happening and...
The thirty-third Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirty-third Roving Ranger newsletter. Events Tolkien Reading Day is coming up on March 25th. As I will be participating in and/or organising three of these events...
The Thirty-Second Roving Ranger
Folks, a warm welcome to this, the thirty-second Roving Ranger newsletter. Events #MiddleearthMarch and other similar events are happening right now, often on Instagram and Twitter, in preparation for the upcoming Tolkien Reading...