Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉
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Another edition of the Roving Ranger out now 😊
The One hundred and sixty-fourth Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #164 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
steady.page
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Another edition of the Roving Ranger out now 😊
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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🧙♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 144 (25/11/25): “Echoes”
Theme suggested by @bladorthin.bsky.social – echoes from underground places (Moria, Gollum’s cave) & echoes across the ages + words having relevance later in chapters.
#TolkienTuesday
📆 Week 144 (25/11/25): “Echoes”
Theme suggested by @bladorthin.bsky.social – echoes from underground places (Moria, Gollum’s cave) & echoes across the ages + words having relevance later in chapters.
#TolkienTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🧙♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 144 (25/11/25): “Echoes”
Theme suggested by @bladorthin.bsky.social – echoes from underground places (Moria, Gollum’s cave) & echoes across the ages + words having relevance later in chapters.
#TolkienTuesday
📆 Week 144 (25/11/25): “Echoes”
Theme suggested by @bladorthin.bsky.social – echoes from underground places (Moria, Gollum’s cave) & echoes across the ages + words having relevance later in chapters.
#TolkienTuesday
Last couple of days I worked in a board gaming café, tried to do show notes for two episodes - ranking jobs in Middle-earth and a silly chart banger with a fake elf -, working on getting the next podcast scheduled, writing scripts, and trying to organise seeing my girl and the family over Xmas. 😱
a person is dancing in a hallway with a red carpet
ALT: a person is dancing in a hallway with a red carpet
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November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Last couple of days I worked in a board gaming café, tried to do show notes for two episodes - ranking jobs in Middle-earth and a silly chart banger with a fake elf -, working on getting the next podcast scheduled, writing scripts, and trying to organise seeing my girl and the family over Xmas. 😱
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Tolkien bluesky! 🧝🏼♀️✨ With the holiday shopping season coming up, let’s get a thread of community/fan merch suggestions going! Could you share some of your favorites?
And if you’re an artist in the fandom, please feel free to share your store or commissions info!
And if you’re an artist in the fandom, please feel free to share your store or commissions info!
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Tolkien bluesky! 🧝🏼♀️✨ With the holiday shopping season coming up, let’s get a thread of community/fan merch suggestions going! Could you share some of your favorites?
And if you’re an artist in the fandom, please feel free to share your store or commissions info!
And if you’re an artist in the fandom, please feel free to share your store or commissions info!
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On 11/22/63 JFK, CS Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
On 11/22/63 JFK, CS Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died.
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#JFK, #CSLewis, #AldousHuxley all died on 22 November 1963. Starkly different men, each gave his energies to universal concerns. Together they form a curious triptych on the mortal condition. Read on at my blog… tinyurl.com/lewishuxleyjfk
Deaths, beliefs and griefs observed: C.S. Lewis, Huxley and Kennedy
These three men died on 22 November 1963. Starkly different, each gave his energies to universal concerns. Together they form a curious triptych on the mortal condition.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#JFK, #CSLewis, #AldousHuxley all died on 22 November 1963. Starkly different men, each gave his energies to universal concerns. Together they form a curious triptych on the mortal condition. Read on at my blog… tinyurl.com/lewishuxleyjfk
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I've just started putting together the 2026 calendar. If you've got a Tolkien event scheduled for next year, please lmk!
Here's another masterpost: the Tolkien Fandom Event Calendar 2025!
It's lovely to see the variety in topics, and how actively the Tolkien fandom encourages creativity. There are no fewer than six (!) events running right now.
Check it out!
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It's lovely to see the variety in topics, and how actively the Tolkien fandom encourages creativity. There are no fewer than six (!) events running right now.
Check it out!
www.tumblr.com/glorfyndels/...
Post by @glorfyndels
💬 24 🔁 111 ❤️ 146 · Tolkien Fandom Event Calendar 2025 · There are lots of exciting Tolkien fandom weeks coming up this year, so inspired by @arofili's 2023 calendar, @curiouselleth's brand new T…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I've just started putting together the 2026 calendar. If you've got a Tolkien event scheduled for next year, please lmk!
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Now, when going through hundreds of items by Google Alerts - one of the elements I am using to curate the Roving Ranger newsletter - I have recently begun to see lines like this with a number of search results.
Anyone with an SEO background here - I think that's what the summary below is, right?
Anyone with an SEO background here - I think that's what the summary below is, right?
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Now, when going through hundreds of items by Google Alerts - one of the elements I am using to curate the Roving Ranger newsletter - I have recently begun to see lines like this with a number of search results.
Anyone with an SEO background here - I think that's what the summary below is, right?
Anyone with an SEO background here - I think that's what the summary below is, right?
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For those of you who were unable to make the Oxford Bloomsbury Summer School on Fantasy Literature the recordings of the sessions are now available at: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Oxford/Bloomsbury Fantasy Summer School 2025 - YouTube
Scheduled Livestreams for the Oxford-Bloomsbury Fantasy Summer School 2025.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
For those of you who were unable to make the Oxford Bloomsbury Summer School on Fantasy Literature the recordings of the sessions are now available at: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Added to the next Roving Ranger, thank you for this!
Many university presses have holiday sales this time of year. Here's some of the books of Tolkien scholarship you can get for discounts right now:
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Added to the next Roving Ranger, thank you for this!
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1.Thread for the evening. Given that #Tolkien was a brilliant professor, it should be no surprise that there is almost no end to what what can learn from him. He was a man who thought more deeply on many subjects than is, perhaps, common and he brought a high heart and mind to this. For example...
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
1.Thread for the evening. Given that #Tolkien was a brilliant professor, it should be no surprise that there is almost no end to what what can learn from him. He was a man who thought more deeply on many subjects than is, perhaps, common and he brought a high heart and mind to this. For example...
Ten years ago two German comedians pranked the nation with a fake Elven singer called Ulmo and made the charts.
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thetolkienist.com/2025/11/18/t...
Ten years ago two German comedians pranked the nation with a fake Elven singer called Ulmo and made the charts - thetolkienist.com
Ulmo Ocin started out as a new ethno pop singer, disliked by many, but when he proved himself to be a great friend, things changed
thetolkienist.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ten years ago two German comedians pranked the nation with a fake Elven singer called Ulmo and made the charts.
thetolkienist.com/2025/11/18/t...
thetolkienist.com/2025/11/18/t...
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For #TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday: a piece in which I’m contemplating Tolkien’s unfinished time-travel story The Lost Road, featuring fathers and sons and their shared dreams.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
For #TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday: a piece in which I’m contemplating Tolkien’s unfinished time-travel story The Lost Road, featuring fathers and sons and their shared dreams.
dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/tolkien-tu...
dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/tolkien-tu...
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including:
Another desk of Tolkien's up for auction; Bovadium Fragments in Oxford politics; tons of calendars; wrong hotel bedroom for the Miramar; Goldilocks' Easter Egg; Vatican vs. Palantir; and more...
Including:
Another desk of Tolkien's up for auction; Bovadium Fragments in Oxford politics; tons of calendars; wrong hotel bedroom for the Miramar; Goldilocks' Easter Egg; Vatican vs. Palantir; and more...
The One hundred and sixty-third Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #163 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
steady.page
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.
Including:
Another desk of Tolkien's up for auction; Bovadium Fragments in Oxford politics; tons of calendars; wrong hotel bedroom for the Miramar; Goldilocks' Easter Egg; Vatican vs. Palantir; and more...
Including:
Another desk of Tolkien's up for auction; Bovadium Fragments in Oxford politics; tons of calendars; wrong hotel bedroom for the Miramar; Goldilocks' Easter Egg; Vatican vs. Palantir; and more...
Reposted by Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉
New Unfinished Tales Collector's Edition coming out next year #Tolkien www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
UK 2013 Collectors edition v 2022 Collector's editions
Special unjacketed hardback edition JRR Tolkien's legacy of shorter works that inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silma...
www.tolkienguide.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New Unfinished Tales Collector's Edition coming out next year #Tolkien www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
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@tolkiendil.bsky.social
A l'occasion de l'anniversaire de Christopher Tolkien (21 novembre), l' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) du mardi 18 novembre aura pour thème:
PERES ET FILS
Postez donc à cette occasion:
🧙Christopher, Mickael, John: personnages, inspirateurs, critiques et éditeurs⤵️
A l'occasion de l'anniversaire de Christopher Tolkien (21 novembre), l' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) du mardi 18 novembre aura pour thème:
PERES ET FILS
Postez donc à cette occasion:
🧙Christopher, Mickael, John: personnages, inspirateurs, critiques et éditeurs⤵️
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@tolkiendil.bsky.social
A l'occasion de l'anniversaire de Christopher Tolkien (21 novembre), l' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) du mardi 18 novembre aura pour thème:
PERES ET FILS
Postez donc à cette occasion:
🧙Christopher, Mickael, John: personnages, inspirateurs, critiques et éditeurs⤵️
A l'occasion de l'anniversaire de Christopher Tolkien (21 novembre), l' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) du mardi 18 novembre aura pour thème:
PERES ET FILS
Postez donc à cette occasion:
🧙Christopher, Mickael, John: personnages, inspirateurs, critiques et éditeurs⤵️
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Is Middle-earth ready to rock!? 🎸🔥
A comm for GirlNextGondor on YouTube. Featuring Turin, Finrod, Sauron, Maglor, and her elf avatar! I had so much fun working on this piece!
A comm for GirlNextGondor on YouTube. Featuring Turin, Finrod, Sauron, Maglor, and her elf avatar! I had so much fun working on this piece!
January 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Is Middle-earth ready to rock!? 🎸🔥
A comm for GirlNextGondor on YouTube. Featuring Turin, Finrod, Sauron, Maglor, and her elf avatar! I had so much fun working on this piece!
A comm for GirlNextGondor on YouTube. Featuring Turin, Finrod, Sauron, Maglor, and her elf avatar! I had so much fun working on this piece!
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Tom beat me to it! I'm thrilled this is out in the world 🎉 It's my first publication in a book, so I'm feeling very sentimental about it all. This is Sauron as biblical femme fatale paper. The VOD is still live, I think, but if you want to read the more polished version in print... you now can! 👁
Another new publication! Thrilled to receive my contributor copy of Númenor, the Frail and Mighty reach print, also featuring @clarelmoore.bsky.social, @mercuryreads.bsky.social, @aranelparmadil.bsky.social, @putriprihatini.bsky.social, and more. Mazel Tov to editor @willsherwood.bsky.social too!
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Tom beat me to it! I'm thrilled this is out in the world 🎉 It's my first publication in a book, so I'm feeling very sentimental about it all. This is Sauron as biblical femme fatale paper. The VOD is still live, I think, but if you want to read the more polished version in print... you now can! 👁
This morning Becky Dillon was laid to rest in the place of her choosing, beneath a beautiful tree, in the midst of a forest.
A fellowship of nine had gathered from Germany and Denmark, passages were read, among them 'Leaf by Niggle', and then,...
A fellowship of nine had gathered from Germany and Denmark, passages were read, among them 'Leaf by Niggle', and then,...
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This morning Becky Dillon was laid to rest in the place of her choosing, beneath a beautiful tree, in the midst of a forest.
A fellowship of nine had gathered from Germany and Denmark, passages were read, among them 'Leaf by Niggle', and then,...
A fellowship of nine had gathered from Germany and Denmark, passages were read, among them 'Leaf by Niggle', and then,...
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🌟Brand new prints available today of "The Arkenstone." One of Bilbo's most important choices in The Hobbit! More links in comments. www.miriamellis.com/product-page...
#Tolkien #TolkienArt #TheArkenstone #TheHobbit #BardtheBowman #TheElvenKing #Thranduil
#Tolkien #TolkienArt #TheArkenstone #TheHobbit #BardtheBowman #TheElvenKing #Thranduil
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🌟Brand new prints available today of "The Arkenstone." One of Bilbo's most important choices in The Hobbit! More links in comments. www.miriamellis.com/product-page...
#Tolkien #TolkienArt #TheArkenstone #TheHobbit #BardtheBowman #TheElvenKing #Thranduil
#Tolkien #TolkienArt #TheArkenstone #TheHobbit #BardtheBowman #TheElvenKing #Thranduil
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Mi smial (delegación territorial de la @soctolkien.bsky.social) cumple hoy 33 años, ¡felicidades, @smialimladris.bsky.social!
📢 El 15 de noviembre de 1992 se fundó el @smialimladris.bsky.social, delegación territorial en la provincia de Valladolid, por lo que hoy cumple 33 años.
🎂 ¡Felicidades!
#efemeridesste #JRRTolkien #AniversarioSmial
🎂 ¡Felicidades!
#efemeridesste #JRRTolkien #AniversarioSmial
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Mi smial (delegación territorial de la @soctolkien.bsky.social) cumple hoy 33 años, ¡felicidades, @smialimladris.bsky.social!