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addicted to a joyful science of Middle-earth | open minded | still learning
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I was here when the world was so young that there had not been a sunrise yet and only silvern starlight shone on the dark woods of Nan Elmoth. I was here when Beleriand was broken and I was here when the world was transformed. I am still here.

#wondersoffiction #middleearth
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December 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Dover Twist moth honoured at Dover’s 5th annual Winter Lantern Festival ✨

The tiny moth (lantern puppet not to scale) was rediscovered by Butterfly Conservation Ecologist Rebecca Levey this year, after it had been thought to have been extinct in England for 73 years!

📷: Future Foundry, Matt Wilson
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
„The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien“ truely are a treasure, not only for containing a lot of unpublished poems but even more for informing us about Tolkien‘s working process. I have discovered now that my thoughts have been confirmed by the marvellous Malcolm Guite. In his latest YT video Guite …
June 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I oiled my garden bench today and I felt a bit like Bilbo. Though Bilbo certainly never oiled his bench himself. Sam did or Master Hamfast before him. So I should rather feel like one of the Gamgees. On the other hand it‘s my garden and not someone else‘s. I guess …

#hobbit #tolkien #garden
May 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The 1st TROPY Awards: What a wonderful show! But I‘m a bit sad that the Moth-ladies haven‘t even been nominated for the Best Creature Design Award since they are terrible and beautiful at once.

youtube.com/watch?v=StEW...

#TROPY #TROP #teawithtolkien
The Season Two TROPY Awards | Rings of Power Fan Awards
YouTube video by Tea with Tolkien
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March 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Around the year 1050 of the Third Age, #Sauron bought a house in Greenwood the Great and renamed it #Mirkwood. This habit of dictatorial overlords moving in and renaming geographical areas just because they feel like it is still practiced today. Unfortunately, we're severely lacking in wizards.
February 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For the 1st time in two years I watched the 1st episode of TROP and I must say clearly: What a great exposition! Starting with the visually stunning prologue the main plot thickens in four correlating threads till it resolves with a big bang in the final sequence. This is good writing.
#trop #lotr
January 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I just stumbled upon the fact that in an early draft Tolkien named the Elven Rings Kemen, Ëar and Menel. Of course it may be a pure coincidence that in „The Rings of Power“ Pharazôn‘s son is named Kemen and Isildur‘s daughter Earien, but what if the names are allusions to things to come? #tRoP #LotR
January 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I was here when the world was so young that there had not been a sunrise yet and only silvern starlight shone on the dark woods of Nan Elmoth. I was here when Beleriand was broken and I was here when the world was transformed. I am still here.

#wondersoffiction #middleearth
December 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM