Very pleased to share freely my essay "#Tolkien's Arda: An Introduction", originally published in The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, with lovely art by by Matěj Čadil! @Tolkienguide @tolkiendil
http://dimitrafimi.com/tolkiens-arda-an-introduction/

Despite later rejecting flower-fairies #Tolkien did invent flower fairy names in Qenya:
🌷 Ailinóne (ĭ): a fairy who dwelt in a lily on a pool
🌼 Nardi: a flower fairy.
🌹 Tetille: a fairy who lived in a poppy
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@Tolkienguide @TolkienGateway
#TolkienTrewsday #tolkientuesday

More on Tolkien and flower-fairies here:

https://dimitrafimi.com/articlesandessays/victorian-fairies-and-the-early-work-of-j-r-r-tolkien/

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#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

@Tolkienguide @TolkienGateway

Es sind nun tatsächlich nur noch 20 Freitags- oder Wochenendtickets für die #TolkienTage vom 24. bis 26.05.2024 verfügbar.

There are now actually only 20 Friday or weekendtickets left for the #TolkienDays from 24 to 26.05.2024.

#Tolkien #lordoftherings #silmarillion

Grüße an die Tolkienisten auf Mastodon:
@tolkiendil
@Tolkienguide
@tolkien@mastodonners.nl
@thetolkienist
@tolkien@a.gup.pe
@Trotter_Tolkien
@MrUnderhill
@Regresoahobbiton
@AHiggins
@finduriel
@Virginicus
@dr_dimitra_fimi
@mgcoco
@erikmh

🚨Discount alert! 🚨 The paperback of my book, #Tolkien, Race and Cultural History is down to £14.99 via this link and using the code PALFLS23at check-out! For 24 hours only, I believe!
https://link.springer.com/book/9780230219519
@Tolkienguide @tolkiendil @thetolkienist

Another edition of the Tolkienists' List (upd.) 😇 #Tolkien

🌟 @AHiggins
🌟 @dr_dimitra_fimi
🌟 @shaungunner
🌟 @Virginicus
🌟 @tolkiendil
🌟 @Gabrielschenk
🌟 @unamccormack
🌟 @drahsturgis
🌟 @finduriel
🌟 @mgcoco
🌟 @Regresoahobbiton
🌟 @Trotter_Tolkien
🌟 @Tolkienguide
🌟 @vincentferre
🌟 @Alas_not_me
🌟 @Aisling_
🌟 @forfirith1180
🌟 @MrUnderhill
🌟 @LunaPressPublishing
🌟 @Lithenna
🌟 @athrabeth_cast
🌟 @erikmh

“Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success – in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 64 to his son Christopher, 30 April 1944

Here we talk about The Lord of the Rings paperbacks published by Ace (Donald Wollheim) with the Jack Gaughan cover art - the history of how they came to be, and some of the factors that affect their collectibility.

https://youtu.be/V_NYzuroFdo

Tolkien was fairly consistent in when he wrote letters

Have a listen as the TolkienGuide team take a look at 2023 publishing - History of the Hobbit, The Battle of Maldon, a forthcoming deluxe illustrated Hobbit, a message from HarperCollins about quality, and more.

TCG 2:01 - Tolkien Collecting and 2023 - great so far and more to come
https://youtu.be/_Bl_ww9DL_Y

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que #LArcEtLeHeaume n°4 a été réimprimé et est à nouveau disponible !

La collection complète du magazine est donc commandable !

https://www.tolkiendil.com/asso/boutique/asso/commande

#tolkien #terredumilieu #hobbit

@AHiggins @thetolkienist @tolkiendil I have my shipping notification but the 🦅 has a bit further to travel 😅

Eglerio!! Look what the 🦅 🦅 🦅 delivered today this beautiful new edition of John D Rateliff’s seminal work of #Tolkien scholarship The History of the Hobbit - looking forward to re-reading! #thehobbit @Tolkienguide @thetolkienist @tolkiendil

I really haven't had much time to be around Mastodon and my lovely home here at the Mended Drum but let me just say it is not forgotten - I still have to feel my way around things.

For now let me just share that I have moved from Patreon to @joinsteady for some incredibly good reasons - and for the sheer fun of it.

It just makes more fun writing there! 😍

So, without further ado:

https://steadyhq.com/thetolkienist/

And do subscribe to the Roving Ranger's new home:

https://steadyhq.com/de/thetolkienist/newsletter/sign_up

RT @CGHildebrandt
Reminder: in 2023 you can re-use your 1978 calendars.

#hildebrandt #hildebrandtart #timhildebrandt #tolkien #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #LOTR #middleearth #fantasy #fantasyart #tolkienart #swordandsorcery #sff

@finduriel

9788595084742

https://www.tolkienguide.com/store/9788595084742

Luke Shelton and I interviewed John Howe today to talk about his work on The Rings of Power Amazon Show.

https://youtu.be/i7jZbnidOJs

HEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.

Why? :sealion:

Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!

All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.

But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.

If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy. :blobcatrainbow:

#feditips #fediverse

It really is hard to believe for me but #OTD - during a recording of my SmallTolk podcast - I finally realised one of #Tolkien's silliest puns he quietly added inbetween lines.

And #RingsOfPower understood this - and turned it into a character.

Meter Man is an ISTAR EGG.😅

[Source: Amazon/ PrimeVideo]

Mr. Underhill is here now too, for any interested! He's still figuring out Mastodon at the moment LOL
@thetolkienist @Tolkienguide @Alas_not_me @vincentferre @mgcoco