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Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Laurelin 💍 (He/Him)

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🧙‍♂️ Graduate in Art History, #Tolkien fan, explorer of new places and gamer. #LOTRO #OneRingRPG. Organiser of #TolkienTrewsday. Fan of #TROP #TheRingsOfPower 💍 📗✍️ https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/

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Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Laurelin 💍 (He/Him) @timbolton.bsky.social · Nov 17

👋 Welcome to my feed! I’m UK-based. I write about 🧙‍♂️ JRR Tolkien and I’m 💍 #TheRingsofPower friendly. I’m a proud member of the #Tolkien community and a member of @tolkiensociety.org, @mythsoc.bsky.social and other organisations/groups. I’m also a 🎮 gamer and play #LOTRO etc.

“Gandalf in the Archives of Minas Tirith” by Matthew Stewart (2014). Source: http://www.matthew-stewart.com/middle-earth#/gandalf-in-the-archives-of-minas-tirith/

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Bladorthin le Barde @bladorthin.bsky.social · 14h

#Tolkientober
Jour 8: ANNEAUX

Dans cette version des énigmes de Bilbo et Gollum, l'ANNEAU est représenté par deux arpèges suspendues qu'on entend au tout début et à la fin: j'y trouve à la fois fascination et corruption (la base descend d'un demi-ton).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEdt...

Le Hobbit: Rhapsodie des énigmes dans le noir (Riddles in the dark Rhapsody)

YouTube video by Bladorthin & Niphredil

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Raquel ⚔️ TROP era 💍 @raquelnekro.bsky.social · 10h

#Tolkientober

Day 8: Círdan 🛶

#tolkientober #inktober #círdan #trop #inks #traditionalart

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Erin @chandlerin.bsky.social · 9h

A belated #Tolkientober Day 7: Osanwë
"The first time, she thought she must have been mistaken. Imagining things. She was half delirious, collapsed onto the bottom of the raft, when she felt a presence lingering just outside the bounds of her mind."
#tolkientober2025
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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 7h

#Tolkientober day 8: rings

“…the jewels green that burned
in Beren's ring. These Noldor had set as eyes of serpents twined that met beneath a golden crown of flowers, that one upholds and one devours.”

A small watercolor painting of the ring of Barahir: two silver snakes with emerald eyes entwined beneath a crown of golden flowers. One has its mouth open to eat the flowers. The background is a gradient wash of indigo blue, pale around the ring and darkening into the corners of the paper

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Reflective Rambling / Nalana / Cassie @reflectiverambling.bsky.social · 5h

day 8 of #tolkientober "Rings"

#fanart #doodle #sketch #poppy #nori #dilly #rop #lotr #ringsofpower #harfoot

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Erin @chandlerin.bsky.social · 2h

A bit over 500 words for #Tolkientober Day 8: Rings
"'One is for you,' Celebrimbor said. But she knew already."
Perhaps I ship Galadriel/Nenya.
#tolkientober2025
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Lefty @lefty.unhingedfellowship.lol · 22h

„The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.“
I’m doing a TRoP villains series on Instagram mainly with the #inktober prompts. ☺️
The older Durin is perfect for „reckless“ and „rings“ 💍 #tolkientober #tolkienart #khazaddum

Black and white pastel drawing of King Durin III., an elderly dwarf with a stubborn gaze and an extensive beard, wearing a metal crown

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Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 2d

Seafarers: The song of the sea whispers in her heart, a never-ending call. They are not seafarers, the elves, but the foam of the tides whispers of home. Once she lived across the ocean. And yet in this land she has been born anew, once, twice, again. The ocean calls, but roots sink into the earth.

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Laura Michel @aislings.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober Day 7: Ósanwë.

Though you are long gone,
I treasure memories of
Hearts and minds touching.

#Tolkientober2025 #Haiku #Tolkientrewsday

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Mango @ariesisrising.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober Day 7: Ósanwë.

My first time trying to participate in this stuff yay I’m so happy

#Tolkientober2025 #elrond #art #lotr

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Raquel ⚔️ TROP era 💍 @raquelnekro.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober

Day 7: Mirdania 💔

#tolkientober #inktober #mirdania #trop #inks #traditionalart

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MADIlusttra @madilusttra.bsky.social · 1d

#TOLKIENTOBER Day 6: SEAFARERS 🌊

Figurehead
Acrylic on sand paper 🖌️🎨

#Tolkientober2025 #Valinor #Cirdan #Elrond #theringsofpower

Alternate version of a wooden ship figurehead made with pastel colours

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober day 7: Ósanwë

The interchange of thought (based on reference art of a Māori hongi greeting)

A small watercolor painting of two dark haired people seen from the neck up, with their eyes closed and their foreheads gently resting together

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Reflective Rambling / Nalana / Cassie @reflectiverambling.bsky.social · 1d

day 7 of #tolkientober 'osanwe' - #glorfindel uses his mental connection to #erestor when convenient.... to him.

((sindarin from tara.istad.org ))
#fanart #tolkien #lotr #elves #doodle

elven man taking scrolls from shelf, voice from afar: "Erestor? Eeeeerestor? Meleth nin? Miluir? saelon? thalion nin? Greatest of all sagely ones?

panel two same elf sitting, folded hands. erestor, speaking: "WHAT?" glorfindel's voicel: "I'm in the springs."
Erestor: "and?"
glorfindel; 'i forgot a towel"
erestor : "When has display ever bothered you?"
thrid panel of elf swimming , "The dwarven delegation."
erestor: "and?"
glorfindel: "They would not be so charmed."
erestor; 'and?"
glorfindel: "Their axes are...of a height."
panel four, erestor has head on desk, one arm on top of his head, one in front of. speaking: "...give me ten."

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Robin Propst @robinpropst.bsky.social · 1d

TolkienTrewsday / Tolkientober: Osanwë
- They Came Together

#TolkienTrewsday
#Tolkientober
#Tolkien

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 1d

For #TolkienTrewsday (aka #TolkienTuesday), a video about Tolkien having a bit of a rant over a single kenning in Beowulf, that's probably been subtly mistranslated for years.

youtu.be/Gs0x14pgX2c?...

Tolkien's Problem with Beowulf Translations

YouTube video by Graham Scheper

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Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 1d

Ósanwë: The door is shut. She has slammed it, latched the lock, dropped the key into the depths. But, now and again, drifting in the outer corners of her awareness, the light slipping through the cracks distorts, shadow moving on the other side. She reaches out a hand, draws it back.
#Tolkientober

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MGCoco | Tolkientober 🎨 @mgcoco.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober Day 7: Ósanwë

Air dropping some memes

#TolkienTrewsday #art

Legolas looking smug with an airdrop symbol over his head. Around him are memes of Isildur saying No, Boromir one doesn’t simply meme, low opacity Elrond, and Keep your secrets Frodo

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Robin Propst @robinpropst.bsky.social · 5d

Tolkientober:4:Armour
- 'But behold!' said he, 'in the armour of Fate(…)there is ever a rift, and in the walls of Doom a breach, until the full-making, which ye call the End. So it shall be while I endure, a secret voice that gainsayeth, and a light where darkness was decreed
#Tolkientober
#Tolkien

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Robin Propst @robinpropst.bsky.social · 4d

Tolkientober: Hope
- Yé! utúvienyes!

#Tolkientober
#Tolkien

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 4d

#Tolkientober day 3: armor

The Sutton Hoo helmet, which was the model for Éomer’s helmet

A small watercolor painting of a helmet with a face plate with a mustache and beard, black empty eye holes with garnets set above the eyes and gilding on the features and the gilded serpents running up the ridge on the forehead. The helmet is brown with rust, corroded but still beautiful

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MGCoco | Tolkientober 🎨 @mgcoco.bsky.social · 4d

#Tolkientober Day 4: Armor

Life, in defiance of death #art

Adar’s armor on the ground, worn from time. Simbelmynë and other wildflowers grow around it

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Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 2d

#Tolkientober

Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 2d

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 1d

For #TolkienTuesday: the second part (out of three) of my essay on childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium, this time focusing on Túrin Turambar and the tragic hero’s childhood.

dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/constructi...

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium (2): Túrin Turambar's childhood

This is the second part of a longer piece on constructions of childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium.

dimitrafimi.substack.com

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 2d

"Pippin sat up with his knees drawn up and the ball beteen them. He bent low over it, looking like a greedy child stooping over a bowl of food, in a corner away from the others.. He drew his cloak aside and gazed at it" “Osanwe” #TolkienTrewsday @timbolton.bsky.social #LOTR Art Peter Xavier Price

Pippin looks in the Palantir by Peter Xavier Price

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