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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · Nov 17

1000 followers (and counting)! Thank you all 😁

To celebrate, I will share something from my collection for every like this post gets.

I’ll start things off with a special fanzine (by request) - I Palantir #1 (August 1960). The very first Tolkien specific fanzine!

Cover of I Palantir #1, showing a wizard (Saruman?) clutching to his chest a spherical Palantir that is roughly the size of his head. Vague lines in the background give the sense of a chamber or tunnel. The title of the fanzine is written in Tengwar.

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 1d

282 of 365 - Conversation with Smaug by J.R.R. #Tolkien

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 2d

New Tolkien Society publication!

Releasing on 25 November, "Númenor, the Mighty and Frail" includes 10 articles relating to Númenor, and its legacy. Edited by @willsherwood.bsky.social and published by @lunapress.bsky.social, it's now available to pre-order. www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/10/new-...

New Tolkien Society publication – <em>Númenor, The Mighty and Frail</em>

The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce that Númenor, the Mighty and Frail: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2023, the twenty-fifth book in the Peter Roe series, is now available to pre-o...

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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 2d

No harm in trying!

Xkcd comic

THIS WEEKEND, I HAD TO MAKE AN OVERSIZED SCREEN FOR A PORCH WINDOW.
IT INVOLVED COUNTLESS TINY PROBLEMS, EACH SOMEHOW WAY HARDER THAN IT SHOULD BE.
OBLIQUE ANGLES.
CURVED EDGES.
NONCOPLANARITY.
(0-un)
^ (0)
wº(26)
...I SOLVED THEM ALL.
I MEASURED PRECISELY.
I DID TRIGONOMETRY.
I MADE CUSTOM PARTS.
AND IT FIT PERFECTLY.
NO GAPS, NO RIPPLES.
I KNOW THAT YOUR FOUNDATION NORMALLY LIMITS ITS PURVIEW TO PHYSICS, MEDICINE, PEACE, CHEMISTRY, AND LITERATURE.
HOWEVER, IF YOU REVIEW THE ATTACHED PHOTOS SHOWING HOW WELL THE SCREEN FITS INTO THE...

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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 3d

There’s Ted and Alan of course, but here’s one by Barthelemy Aupetit that I really like

www.artstation.com/artwork/3qJ2LD

Gondolin by Barthelemy Aupetit. Panoramic view from below the city showing towers and walls above waterfalls, with snow capped mountains in the distance

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

I have been remiss in noting that I've been invited to speak at this event (I've done the Prancing Pony Podcast quite a few times now) and am excited to hobnob with the Tolkien-heads!

prancingponypod.bsky.social @prancingponypod.bsky.social · 3d

And if you have registered to attend in-person, but haven't booked your room yet, go do that now: the link is available from our event page - theprancingponypodcast.com/moot/.

The Prancing Pony Podcast Moot 2025 – The Prancing Pony Podcast

theprancingponypodcast.com

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

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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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 3d

Time travel idea planted over a beer with the physicist neighbor…?

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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 3d

Now I need to see what hints there might be in Tolkien’s musings from that era!

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 5d

278 of 365 - The #Hobbit Rankin/Bass tie-ins #Tolkien

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Roäc the Grey Haven Raven (Katie) @roac.bsky.social · 5d

An Unexpected Livestream is upon us!

Today, Oct 4, join us for 8+ hours of livestream fun starting at 10a PDT / 12p PDT / 1p EDT on @prancingponypod YouTube + Twitch.

More details below!

#Tolkien #LOTR #Luinellë #middleearth

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Christopher Gilson @cgilson75.bsky.social · 6d

I am going to bea keynote speaker at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot 2025 this December 18-21. The theme of the moot is “Creating Historical Depth within Fantastical Worlds.”

theprancingponypodcast.com/moot/

My working title is:
“From Words to Worlds: Elvish Roots of Tolkien’s Mythology.”

The Prancing Pony Podcast Moot 2025 – The Prancing Pony Podcast

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prancingponypod.bsky.social @prancingponypod.bsky.social · 6d

The PPP Manic Moot Marathon is tomorrow! As you know, the early-bird registration deadline for PPP Moot 2025 is this Sat. To help spread the word, we’re hosting a marathon livestream this Sat, Oct 4, starting at 10am PT! We’ll be live for at least 8 hours and may go longer.

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 6d

@onthetrail.tolkienguide.com and myself interviewed @richove.bsky.social about the new #Tolkien book The Bovadium Fragments. You can read our review here www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

The Bovadium Fragments: TolkienGuide review

=THE BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS: a review= INTRODUCTION Earlier this year it was announced by HarperCollins that they were due to publish for the first time &qu...

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 7d

276 of 365 - There and Back Again - The Map of the #Hobbit edited by Brian Sibley, illustrated by John Howe #Tolkien

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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 7d

Borrowed SO LET THEM BURN from my library just now. Looking forward to reading it!

kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 7d

SO LET THEM BURN and THIS ENDS IN EMBERS (yes, both!) have earned out.

SO LET THEM BURN, my debut novel, came out a year ago. THIS ENDS IN EMBERS completed the duology in February. And now every time someone buys a copy in any format, I earn royalties.

I can't stop crying. Thank you so much.

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 8d

Anotha one: New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @clarelmoore.bsky.social who is a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow, researching disability in Tolkien’s legendarium. She gives insight into feminist and disability thought in Tolkien’s works: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 8d

Beautiful!

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MGCoco | Tolkientober 🎨 @mgcoco.bsky.social · 8d

#Tolkientober Day 1: Creation

Feanor holding up three glowing silmarils

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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 9d

As always, love your perspective!

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Anke Eissmann @khorazir.bsky.social · 9d

“Journeying up Gwathló” (watercolour, 2022)

#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

Watercolour painting showing three swans flying over a winding river with two longship-like boats travelling up it. In the distance there are mountains.

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 11d

272 of 365 - The #Hobbit cover illustration by John Howe #Tolkien

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 10d

273 of 365 - A Secret Vice #Tolkien

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Erica @erica-monteiro.bsky.social · 10d

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Dear Tolkien Fans: Black People Exist - The Public Medievalist

Tolkien fan communities can be hostile places for Black fans. Just because Tolkien's work has white supremacy embedded in it does not mean that fans should embrace or replicate it.

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 11d

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with Matthew Distefano from Quoir and the Heretic Happy Hour podcast to talk Tolkien and the release of his new book, Letters from the Shire: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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