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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 4d

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

"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 · 12h

I would loooove to see this 😭😄

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 13h

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 · 15h

Thank you ☺️

Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 15h

Same here 😥

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 15h

So she will 😭

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

😀😅

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

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

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

Thank you, Jeff, quite the loss, indeed!

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

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 · 1d

So am I 😥

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

... 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 .

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Old school is always great in my book 😀

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MGCoco | Tolkientober 🎨 @mgcoco.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Well, let's see how this one works out :)

Given that our fandom has been pretty lucky when it comes to board gaming...

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

I hope so, too. #GNUPterry

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social · 2d

NEW BOOK ALERT!

My penultimate edited proceedings from the @tolkiensociety.org seminar series is now available for pre-order! Arriving on 25th November with @lunapress.bsky.social, it contains 11 papers from the 2023 seminar ‘Númenor, the Mighty and Frail’.

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 3d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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