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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 15h
Today I just want to say...

THANK YOU.

For subscribing to this wild and weird thing that I started a few years ago - the Roving Ranger, the all things Tolkien newsletter.

We have reached edition TWO HUNDRED.

Enjoy.

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The Two hundredth Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #200 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
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digitaltolkien.com
I have a more compact, graphical visualization coming soon!
September 17, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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finduriel.bsky.social
¿Cuál es vuestra librería favorita? @blackwelloxford.bsky.social es una maravilla, pero empata en mi ranking con @hatchards.bsky.social
September 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM
thetolkienist.com
Today I just want to say...

THANK YOU.

For subscribing to this wild and weird thing that I started a few years ago - the Roving Ranger, the all things Tolkien newsletter.

We have reached edition TWO HUNDRED.

Enjoy.

steady.page/en/thetolkie...
The Two hundredth Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #200 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
steady.page
September 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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uruloke.tolkienguide.com
Happy Silmarillion publishing birthday, 49 years ago today. Which means next year will be the 50th anniversary. Maybe we should celebrate that too! Pre-order your 2027 Beyond Bree Silmarillion Calendar today. beyondbree.org

Featuring "Ancalagon the Black" by @khorazir.bsky.social
Draft cover image for the 2027 Beyond Bree Silmarillion Calendar, featuring Anke Eissmann's "Ancalagon the Black" new artwork, showing a massive black dragon breathing fire towards a white swan-shaped ship sailing the air, surrounded by birds.
September 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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I would sooooo love to participate in this topic right now, given that Oxford is my emotional second home in life, but I'm in hospital and slightly limited in my writing options...

And no, a smartphone will never reach my typing speed 😂🚀 💻

Let me just mention: I got engaged in Oxford. 😁💍😍
timbolton.bsky.social Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Meriadoc 💍 (He/Him) @timbolton.bsky.social · 2d
🧙‍♂️ #TolkienTrewsday
📆 Week 186 (15/09/26): “Dreaming Spires”

Early-mid September has traditionally been when #Oxonmoot is hosted by the #TolkienSociety @tolkiensociety.org in Oxford. To celebrate this, the theme this week is about the city of Dreaming Spires! #TolkienMonth

#TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2026/03/tolkien-trewsday-year-four.html
September 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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ursulakleguin.com
The new @silver-press.bsky.social edition of Language of the Night—with an introduction by David Mitchell and a foreword from Theo Downes-Le Guin—is now available!
Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin
In this novel by the iconic French feminist theorist, a woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god.
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September 15, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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clarelmoore.bsky.social
The @tolkiensociety.org’s Big Read starts Return of the King on Monday! Don’t miss our guest speaker Alina Himango Fairbanks discussing the events leading up to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields with a focus on the role of Ghân-buri-Ghân from an Indigenous perspective. See you soon! 📖
September 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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sociedadtolkien.org
📅 El 15 de septiembre de 1977 se publicó El Silmarillion, editado por Christopher Tolkien, hijo del Profesor.

📕 El libro recopila relatos de J.R.R. Tolkien que narran leyendas y amplían la mitología del legendarium de la Tierra Media.
September 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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ursulakleguin.com
Tomorrow!
September 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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elanillounico.com
El Anillo Único se convierte en el primer “Heraldo” internacional del Fan Club oficial de El Señor de los Anillos
https://nazg.eu/g1E

#Herald #LordoftheRingsFanClub #LOTRFanClub #Mathoms #MiddleEarthEnterprises
LOTR Fan Club - El Anillo Único
September 14, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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finduriel.bsky.social
Preparando mi agenda para la #EstelCon2026 me doy cuenta de que, como en los grandes eventos #Tolkien, me perderé la mitad de las cosas porque se me solapan con otras.
Después de la #Oxonmoot2026 aún tengo ganas de mucho más #Tolkien, ¡qué emoción!
estelcon.sociedadtolkien.org/agenda
Ilustración de Ted Nasmith en la web de la EstelCon, que muestra la llegada de Aragorn a los campos de Pelennor en los barcos negros de los corsarios de Umbar. En el texto se lee: EstelCon 2026, Mereth Gaerlen, 24 al 27 de septiembre en La Manga (Murcia). Un encuentro para navegar con la imaginación, compartir historias y vivir la Tierra Media junto a la costa. Faltan 10 días.
September 14, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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vincentferre.bsky.social
The Worlds of #Christopher #Tolkien (19 November). Texts by Baillie Tolkien, Alan Lee, L. Carruthers, Th. Honegger, Ch. Laferrière, D. Bador, V. Stocker, I. Pantin, Richard Ovenden, J.-Ph. Qadri, Chris Smith, L. Lebourg, L. Zembrzuski, V. Ferré & 16 pics by #CRT

harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...
The Worlds of Christopher Tolkien
A celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, The Worlds of Christopher Tolkien sheds light on the worlds in which Christopher Tolkien lived and wrote for his centenary year, illuminate...
harpercollins.co.uk
September 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
thetolkienist.com
I have found the PERFECT MIDDLE-EARTH EVENT 😂😍👑

The Birmingham Fungi Festival 🍄‍🟫

Why is it perfect, you ask? 😊

Well, because of the...

GREAT MUSHROOM HUNT 🍄‍🟫

Imagine a hundred hobbit kids going BAT SHIT CRAZY 😂😂😂

www.bbcwildlife.org.uk/BirminghamFu...
Birmingham Fungi Festival | Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust
Join us for the second Birmingham Fungi Festival on Saturday 17th October!
www.bbcwildlife.org.uk
September 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
thetolkienist.com
I never expected to have an essay published on my birthday on the tech bros' neo-fascist fantasies, the extreme right's take-over attempt with their version of the 'Kulturkampf' - and how they are abusing the names invented by my favourite author.

Definitely not on my '26 bingo card. 🙄
dertolkienist.de Marcel R. Bülles @dertolkienist.de · 3d
Ich muss zugeben, ich hätte nie gedacht, dass ich mal einen Artikel auf meinem Geburtstag veröffentliche, der die neo-faschistischen Tenzenden gewisser Tech Bros. darstellt... und die missbräuchliche Verwendung von Namen, die mein Lieblingsschriftsteller entworfen hat.
Tech Bros, Neue Rechte und der literarische Kulturkampf am Beispiel "Herr der Ringe" | Tor Online
Für ihre Gewalt- und Machtfantasien missbrauchen Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg & Co. fantastische Klassiker. Einer ihrer Ansätze? Unternehmen nach tolkienschen Orten und...
www.tor-online.de
September 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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bass42.bsky.social
Entre deux petits croquis aquarellés sur le balcon, le plaisir de me replonger dans les appendices de The Lord Of The Rings

#Tolkien #Vercors #Moucherotte
Une table avec le livre The Lord of the Eing, un carnet et une boîte d'aquarelle, et au fond une montagne: Le Moucherotte et le plateau des Guillets
September 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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If I hadn't stopped writing/ editing with DE Wikipedia for their gatekeeping... this would probably be on my profile page. 😅
September 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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khorazir.bsky.social
“Elladan and Elrohir” (watercolour, 2026)

Another of six new artworks I’ve just finished for a book about the history of the Elves to be published by Legendaria Ediciones.

#Tolkien
Portrait orientation watercolour with a thin watercolour frame showing Elladan and Elrohir in close-up in the right hand foreground with a rocky gorge with waterfalls and a building amid trees in the background. Both half-elves are wearing grey hoods, one is seen in frontal view and one in profile looking to the left of the picture.
September 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Say... hwaet now? 😅

P.S. Someone I know works in logistics at Frankfurt and yes, he's a Tolkien fan... Maybeeee.... 😂 #Tolkien
callioperyder.bsky.social Calliope Ryder >NZGDC @callioperyder.bsky.social · 3d
security in frankfurt: where you from?
me: new zealand
security: ah! land of frodo!
me: you’re not gonna believe this
September 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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⚔️ Les candidatures 2027 sont ouvertes !

Artisans, animations, musiciens, spectacles…

🌿 Rejoignez Terres de Rohan du 15 au 17 mai à Rohan (56) et faites vivre l’univers de Tolkien ! 

📩 [email protected]
September 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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miriamellis.bsky.social
🌟Have you ever seen The Raft-elves before? New prints now available at www.miriamellis.com/product-page... and more information in comments on this rarely-glimpsed scene!

#Tolkien #Raftelves #TheHobbit
September 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Life is crap for all sorts of reasons at times...

But this certainly isn't.

Anna Lapwood has done it - the LotR soundtrack, organised!

music.youtube.com/watch?v=0dZ-...
I. Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (The Lord of the Rings Organ Symphony)
YouTube video by Anna Lapwood - Topic
music.youtube.com
September 11, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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"The Tolkien Problem, Solved by Pipeline"...

"Researchers just automated the thing Tolkien spent decades doing by hand... Tolkien spent decades crafting Elvish..."

"A staged AI system now handles the structural heavy lifting that once required years of expert linguistic craft."
This AI Builds Entire Languages From Scratch: Grammar, Sounds, and All
ConlangCrafter AI builds complete fictional languages with grammar, sounds, and vocabulary in one automated session — no linguist required.
currently.att.yahoo.com
September 11, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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oxfordfantasylit.bsky.social
Reminder of this series starting in a few weeks. Quite a bit on creative writing, dramatisation of fantasy, as well as key talks on weird fiction.
oxfordfantasylit.bsky.social oxfordfantasylit.bsky.social @oxfordfantasylit.bsky.social · Jul 15
Thrilled to announce an exciting 'open to the public' seminar series as part of our annual 'Weird and Wonderful' talks hosted by ExeterCollegeOx, running Oct-Dec 2026 in Oxford. Attendance is free but please register at: english.web.ox.ac.uk/seminar-seri...
Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the Wonderful
english.web.ox.ac.uk
September 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
thetolkienist.com
The internet has only one label for this.

WTF. 😅😅😅

KALLAX STORAGEBORN/ SKYRIM.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tBl...
KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.
YouTube video by IKEA UK
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September 10, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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vincentferre.bsky.social
oyez !
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fabula.org/actualites/136362/dictionnaire-du-moyen-age-imaginaire-le-medievalisme-hier-et-aujourd-hui.html

A. Besson, W. Blanc, V. Ferré (dir.), Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge imaginaire. Le médiévalisme, hier et aujourd'hui
@annebesson.bsky.social @hmedievaliste.bsky.social
A. Besson, W. Blanc, V. Ferré (dir.), Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge imaginaire. Le médiévalisme, hier et aujourd'hui
Gentes dames et preux chevaliers, sorcières, mais aussi Arthur, Robin des Bois, Jeanne d’Arc, Gengis Khan, Saladin… Le Moyen Âge est une source inépuisable de fantasmes et d’inspirations. Rassemblant ...
fabula.org
September 10, 2026 at 8:16 AM