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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 5d

Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.

Including:

Vrrrrroooom, Bovadium; book market conference; hobbit halloween; PPP Moot; voices in his head; JTR + 3; RoP leaks; kill fees; chocolate fish café, bye bye; Pratchett & magpies; D&D 50 and much, much more...

The One hundred and fifty-seventh Roving Ranger

The Roving Ranger #157 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 3h

I have known for quite some time there is a serious overlap between Tolkien fans and crochet fans - but this fan film is something special.

Please note: a canon-defying twist at the end. You were warned! 😅

P.S. It is only about 2:30 mins...

The Lord of the Rings Crochet Fan Film

YouTube video by Greg Wagnon

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 6h

It is good to see there are people who are offering opportunities when it comes to art. 🤩

Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 17h

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 18h

Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson.
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John Garth @johngarthwriter.bsky.social · 17h

To mark the publication of Tolkien's Bovadium Fragments, join me as I explore the background to his satire on the motor-car and Oxford…
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‘Mounted on the monster’: Tolkien and the motor-car

To mark the publication of The Bovadium Fragments, let’s explore the background to Tolkien’s satire on the motor-car and Oxford…

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 16h

Glasgow friends!!

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1d

We're bringing the book of the exhibition to Glasgow! 4 Nov, Waterstones

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A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin today.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 1d

"Life without God: grandson of JRR #Tolkien on how losing his own faith shaped his novels on Catholicism" [Catholic Herald]

"... I still have two circular prayer cards, the size of coins, on which he inscribed the Pater Noster ..."

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 1d

I would loooove to see this 😭😄

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 1d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 1d

Thank you ☺️

Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 1d

Same here 😥

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 1d

So she will 😭

Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

😀😅

a cartoon of mickey mouse standing next to a trunk filled with clothes

ALT: a cartoon of mickey mouse standing next to a trunk filled with clothes

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

JAMES! How many things are you working on right now? 🤪😅

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

Thank you, Jeff, quite the loss, indeed!

Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

She's done so much for the community behind the scenes - if you were the recipient of her support and advice you'd very much know it but she was never one for the limelight.

Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

So am I 😥

Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

... and played The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick Taking Game for the first time, thinking of Becky. 🥳 And I have to think Thalia Buchhandlung - Thalia in Jena's Goethe Galerie for handing out a TOLKIEN TIMES to me, even though officially they were already closed - thank you!

a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .

ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

I have managed to get Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jansson and Terry Pratchett into one article. I hope she'd like that.

Farewell, wherever you are.

You will be missed.

P.S. Yes, I have raised a SMAUG and a beer to her tonight at my favourite Tillis Spielecafé Jena...

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

I dedicate my article with German Tolkien publishers Hobbitpresse on the Tove Jansson edition of THE HOBBIT to her - her love was art, and Tove Jansson's illustrations would have hit her sweet spot of bringing Middle-earth to life in a unique way.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

She was kind, supportive, a wit to match - and ruthless when it came to stupid, unkind people. If she appreciated you, respected you, liked you, she'd be fiercely loyal - with no holds barred.

My life has been better thanks to Becky.

I will miss her.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

Middle-earth fair /convention in the world, she made it happen.

If you wanted to meet @jennydolfen.bsky.social or @franzbrehme.bsky.social or Tor Fauskanger or the only officially Middle-earth Enterprises licensed shirts of Grumpy Geeks...

She made it possible.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

You may never have heard of her - but in the last twenty years the major, possibly the largest art spaces in the world inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien were organised by her.
Whether it be with RingCon /HobbitCon/ MagicCon or the Tolkien Niederrhein Tolkien Days, the largest volunteer-run ...

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

IN MEMORIAM

Yesterday my beautiful friend, Becky Dillon, passed into the West.

I had written with her some time ago and she had made clear that things were heading for an end - but even if you know the end is coming the loss still remains.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 2d

Old school is always great in my book 😀

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MGCoco | Tolkientober 🎨 @mgcoco.bsky.social · 3d

Heads up SoCal Tolkien folks, the SoCaliquendi Smial is having a Middle-earth Yule Party in December! www.eventbrite.com/e/middle-ear...

Middle-earth Yule Party

Eventbrite - Serpentine Cider presents Middle-earth Yule Party - Saturday, December 6, 2025 at Serpentine Cider & Smokehouse, San Diego, CA. Find event and ticket information.

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Association Tolkiendil @tolkiendil.bsky.social · 3d

Rendez-vous dans moins d'une semaine sur notre chaîne Twitch pour une conférence sur la façon dont les elfes vieillissent, et les différents modèles prévus par Tolkien pour Premiers-Nés !
👉 Mardi 14 octobre à 21h
👉 www.twitch.tv/assotolkiendil

Comment vieillissent les Elfes ? Conférence Twitch de Simon le 14 octobre à 21h. Découvrez les différents modèles que Tolkien avait prévus pour le vieillissement des Elfes.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 3d

That's a pretty good question? 😂

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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