The Ninth Roving Ranger
olks, a warm welcome to this, the ninth Roving Ranger newsletter! My apologies for an extra day of wait but I am travelling right now and will inform you about these travels via...
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Sublime stage rendition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Leaf by Niggle’ goes crowdfunding: Support Puppet State Theatre and get to watch it!
he consequences of the global pandemic are felt everywhere. As a freelance translator I am well aware that colleagues in the performing arts are very hard hit by the lack of opportunity to...
The Eighth Roving Ranger
olks, a warm welcome to this, the eighth Roving Ranger newsletter! Events URGENT: Puppet State Theatre, the Edinburgh-based company well-known for their beautiful rendition of Leaf by Niggle have started an Edinburgh Fringe...
Do no longer help me find great Tolkienists on Twitter (was Revisited: Help me find great Tolkienists on Twitter)
his is one of the posts that has become invalid in the course of time. First published in 2014 when my main account used to be the Macrobee – deleted in 2018 –...
Tolkien MeMes #4. »75 reasons why you should read ›The Hobbit‹ before watching the films« or: How TheTolkienist.com started in 2012.
s I mentioned elsewhere I am working on the 200+ blog posts of The Tolkienist, updating them if possible, and correcting many minor mistakes which usually come from running a blog for almost...
The Seventh Roving Ranger
olks, a warm welcome to this, the sixth Roving Ranger newsletter! Events Please always refer to the International Tolkien Fellowship Facebook group for Tolkien-inspired events the world over. Essays & Scholarship Tom Hillman...
The Sixth Roving Ranger
olks, a warm welcome to this, the sixth Roving Ranger newsletter! Events The Tolkien Society (UK) has announced their keynote speakers and panels for their first ever online Oxonmoot. WorldCon 2020 happened in...
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...
Tolkien MeMes #3. “The Lord of the Rings” – our favourite cast of 1995
As things are slowly building towards the upcoming Amazon Lord of the Rings on Prime series fandom has been starting to do the usual stuff: suggestions, ideas, wishes, fears and with some members...
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...
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish (…)
Please note that many Tolkien-related quotes on the internet are truncated, misappropriated, wrongly attributed and/or taken out of context. The full version of this quote is: ‘It’s the job that’s never started as...