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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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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 4h

It feels like code bytes would be interesting to see separated from (for example) image data bytes, which should (I would think) have a very different distribution

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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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 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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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 4d

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

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Jeremy @tolkienguide.com · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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

kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

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...