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...
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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...
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I have started the process of updating every single blog post with TheTolkienist.com because of changes in plug-ins, outdated and/or changed information etc.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...
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Why Maurice Sendak did not illustrate J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’
ocial media have their most wonderful advantages and you may know that Twitter is probably the one I like most these days. (Addendum: This is June 2024, and no, Twitter is no longer...
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...
Tolkien & Pratchett: A Tale of Two Great authors
Update: April 10, 2022 As part of my Unpacking a mystery box series I have found the actual ticket of the event mentioned in the text below and added it as the top...
Introducing: Tolkien MeMes
hose of you who have met me in person will probably know that I have a penchant for the silliest of puns: acronyms, word play, you name it. I am particularly fond and...
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...