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Andrew Ferguson - UK #Tolkien and #Hobbit book collecting expert, moderator (Trotter) on http://tolkienguide.com and host on TCG YouTube http://bit.ly/39FRXWV

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · Dec 12

In the other place, I used to post images of my #Tolkien collection, decided to set myself a challenge and post one image a day of an item from my Tolkien collection for each day of 2025 on bSky, 365 in total, starting January 1st 😰

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 13h

283 of 365 - Guild Publishing (UK Book Club) editions #Tolkien

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 1d

#Tolkien Society Seminar - next week

Don't forget to sign up to our 2025 Seminar on "Arda's Entangled Bodies and Environments" taking place on Saturday 18 October. The event is free to attend and open to all. The full schedule is on our website. www.tolkiensociety.org/events/semin... #BookSky

Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 – Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments

The Tolkien Society Seminar is a short conference of both researcher-led and non-academic presentations on a specific theme pertaining to Tolkien scholarship. After the seminar, all paper recordings f...

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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 1d

This had its origins in Search Tolkien but has been improved (like the ability to group by speaker) and those improvements will make it back to Search Tolkien soon!

Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 1d

This is a big one!

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Beanbag #54 | Project Amaze!

Launch of Search Project Hail Mary

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TolkienGuide - On This Day @otd.tolkienguide.com · 1d

#OnThisDay in 1945, #Tolkien writes to Christopher Tolkien.

Tolkien writes to his son Christopher, informing him that the Inklings propose to consider him a permanent member. An extract from the letter appears in The Inklings, p. 205.

Guide to Tolkien's Letters: J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien

Tolkien writes to his son Christopher, informing him that the Inklings propose to consider him a permanent member. An extract from the letter appears in...

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 1d

So this has just arrived. Looks really amazing. Just leafed through and really liking Alexander Korotich's art @joelmerriner.bsky.social #Tolkien #LOTR

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 2d

On 8 October 2015: The Art of The Lord of the Rings was published.

Edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, this books gives a valuable insight into J.R.R. #Tolkien as an artist and features nearly 200 sketches, drawings, maps and paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien. An essential purchase. #BookSky

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Yann Morello - Bergelmir Tolkiendil @yann-bergelmir.bsky.social · 1d

[Parution #Tolkien du jour]
Le mois de l'Imaginaire continue avec une nouvelle édition du #Hobbit, illustrée par Tove Jansson, l'artiste finlandaise qui créa les célèbres #Moumines.
Disponible chez Bourgois, cet ouvrage broché rend hommage à la 1ère édition finlandaise de 1973.

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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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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 2d

I don't think he finished it, he tried reading it but did not like it.

Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 2d

281 of 365 - The Adventures of Tom Bombadil #Tolkien

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TolkienGuide - On This Day @otd.tolkienguide.com · 4d

#OnThisDay in 1940, #Tolkien writes to Michael Tolkien.

Tolkien's son Michael had volunteered in the army, and Tolkien expresses his deep regret about the disruption to his university education due to military service. He sympathizes with the challenges and disruptions caused by such (1/2)

Guide to Tolkien's Letters: J.R.R. Tolkien to Michael Tolkien

Tolkien's son Michael had volunteered in the army, and Tolkien expresses his deep regret about the disruption to his university education due to mi...

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TolkienGuide - On This Day @otd.tolkienguide.com · 3d

#OnThisDay in 1948, #Tolkien writes to Ronald Eames.

Tolkien sends his spare copy of Farmer Giles of Ham, which is uncorrected, to Ronald Eames. This copy is to be sent on to the illustrator Pauline Baynes. He believes that it will serve her in preparation for illustrating the book. (1/2)

Guide to Tolkien's Letters: J.R.R. Tolkien to Ronald Eames

Tolkien sends his spare copy of Farmer Giles of Ham, which is uncorrected, to Ronald Eames. This copy is to be sent on to the illustrator Pauline Baynes...

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 3d

280 of 365 - The Teacher's Guide to The #Hobbit by Bob Foster #Tolkien

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 4d

279 of 365 - Poems and Stories embellished by Pauline Baynes #Tolkien

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TolkienGuide - On This Day @otd.tolkienguide.com · 5d

#OnThisDay in 1963, #Tolkien writes to Sir Stanley Unwin.

Allen & Unwin were to publish a paperback consisting of Tolkien’s lecture ‘On Fairy-stories’ and his short story ‘Leaf by Niggle’. An additional quoted sentence appears in Chronology.

Guide to Tolkien's Letters: J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin

Allen & Unwin were to publish a paperback consisting of Tolkien's lecture 'On Fairy-stories' and his short story 'Leaf by Niggle&apo...

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 5d

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

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 6d

Join the #Tolkien Society now to get the next issue of Amon Hen!

Members of the Society get 6 editions of Amon Hen a year, the next one due out later this month. We ship worldwide (including USA), and have a digital membership option. #BookSky

Join at www.tolkiensociety.org/join

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John Garth @johngarthwriter.bsky.social · 6d

As #Tolkien became professor of Anglo-Saxon in Oxford century ago, the city’s Morris Motors became Britain’s biggest car maker. There's a certain inevitability he would flourish a poison pen on the topic. I review THE BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS in today's Times. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Lord of the ring road — JRR Tolkien’s war against the motor car

In the posthumously published satire The Bovadium Fragments, the Hobbit creator inveighs against car culture

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TolkienGuide - On This Day @otd.tolkienguide.com · 6d

#OnThisDay in 1961, #Tolkien writes to Jane Neave.

Tolkien writes to his Aunt Jane about publishing Tom Bombadil.

Guide to Tolkien's Letters: J.R.R. Tolkien to Jane Neave

Tolkien writes to his Aunt Jane about publishing Tom Bombadil.

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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · 6d

Good interview with @RichardOvenden on the upcoming release of the NEW #Tolkien book The Bovadium Fragments youtube.com/watch?v=IGuQ... @harpercollins.bsky.social

Richard Ovenden OBE talks Tolkien and The Bovadium Fragments

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 7d

During the month of October @princetonupress.bsky.social has @johngarthwriter.bsky.social's excellent book "The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien" available for 70% off! If you don't have it already, this is a great opportunity.

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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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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 6d

277 of 365 - Pictures by J.R.R. #Tolkien

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onthetrail @onthetrail.tolkienguide.com · 7d

Thank you to Richard Ovenden OBE for joining Andrew and I to talk about the latest book byJRR #tolkien The Bovadium Fragments. It was such a pleasure.

Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 7d

@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

The Interview is here. youtu.be/IGuQ-kEsbh4

Richard Ovenden OBE talks Tolkien and The Bovadium Fragments

YouTube video by TolkienGuide

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