Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Picture by Marcel Aubron-Bülles
Thank you all very much for your patience. I have been horribly busy in the last couple of weeks, returning from Return of the Ring (I will be writing a review of this shortly) and working as a freelance translator (including translating Gregory Bassham’s The Hobbit and Philosophy – that is why I had to postpone starting this project.
Right now, I am at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland participating in the School of English Tolkien Conference “The Forest and the City” and will be talking about his via Twitter and this blog. Do enjoy my coverage, follow me on Twitter(no longer active and tweets deleted) and do let me know what you think of the upcoming material.
Addendum March 2026I have been online since the ’90s… and the blog before this one was called the Macrobee. If you are interested in an incredibly embarrassing website… follow this link. 😇 The web archive has it saved first on Feb 23, 2001.
Marcel R. Bülles is the author of thetolkienist.com, a specialist blog centering on worldwide Tolkien fandom, geekdom and research. For more than twenty years he has worked as a freelance translator and writer and is the founder of the German Tolkien Society as well as a co-founder to RingCon, the first ever film trilogy convention. You can find him in cafés all over the world sipping an espresso blogging, writing, reading. At one point he was married to an extremely lovely French lady by the nickname of Sauron. Yes, that Sauron. He is also active with the International Tolkien Fellowship on Facebook and the Tolkien Folk on Instagram.You can support his many ventures, including the weekly, all things Tolkienian newsletter, the Roving Ranger, via crowdfunding with Steady.
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