One thing becomes very clear working on something like books.digitaltolkien.com : publishers frequently forget what impression number they're up to :-)

#OnThisDay in 1965, #Tolkien writes to The Librarian at Marquette. Tolkien writes to the Librarian at Marquette asking for copies of manuscript materials needed for revising The Lord of the Rings.

J.R.R. Tolkien to The Librarian at Marquette

Tolkien writes to the Librarian at Marquette asking for copies of manuscript materials needed for revising The Lord of the Rings.

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The Tolkien Books DB should now be close to complete for UK Hobbit Editions: books.digitaltolkien.com/work/hobbit/

The Tolkien Books DB should now be close to complete for UK Hobbit Editions: books.digitaltolkien.com/work/hobbit/

We hit 2,000!

Digital Tolkien Project@digitaltolkien.com · last wk.

We're at 1,996 followers on Instagram!

The Tolkien Books DB now has initial entries for: Bilbo's Last Song, Poems and Stories, Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Middle English Vocabulary, Ancrene Wisse, Songs for the Philologists. books.digitaltolkien.com

The Tolkien Books DB now has initial entries for: Bilbo's Last Song, Poems and Stories, Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Middle English Vocabulary, Ancrene Wisse, Songs for the Philologists. books.digitaltolkien.com

97 downloads so far :-) scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

On this 72nd anniversary of the publication of The Fellowship of the Ring, a reminder that there's still lots of active work on and contributions to be make to our Tolkien Books Database: books.digitaltolkien.com

On this 72nd anniversary of the publication of The Fellowship of the Ring, a reminder that there's still lots of active work on and contributions to be make to our Tolkien Books Database: books.digitaltolkien.com

We're at 1,996 followers on Instagram!

Congratulations the winner of the 2026 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies: Michael D. C. Drout, The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation (Norton, 2025)!

Paper available here: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

During the stop-over in Singapore got word my first submission to the Journal of Tolkien Research was accepted and published!

Paper submitted (and resubmitted after cutting quotations)

What happens when some of a young Tolkien's early Elvish (Gnomish) words aren't really what they seem? Reflections on some of the linguistic seeds of Tolkien's poignant and masterful mythology... #Tolkien #Silmarillion #Philology www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NH...

Lexical Palimpsests: Old English and Old Norse Loan Words in Tolkien's Gnomish Lexicon (1917)

YouTube video by Oxford Tolkien Network

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Chapter pages now available on HoMe Base for volumes 11 and 12. home.digitaltolkien.com/volume/11/ home.digitaltolkien.com/volume/12/ Volume 12 has P-texts segments (Volume 11 will soon).

Submitted a new talk proposal 🤞

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the #Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien's grandson will deliver a lecture on his grandfather's mythology. #Tolkien tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/michae...

Michael G. Tolkien on Eden, Fall, Exile and Beyond

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making some internal improvements to the Tolkien Books Database books.digitaltolkien.com

Come collaborate with me!

Prof Michaela Mahlberg@michamahlberg.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...

This may mean more annotations in Rimbë 😆

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First online book purchase since arriving in Germany.

Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers. Including: The Tove Jansson Hobbit; the Grauniad 100 best novels; the Tolkien letter showing Hal didn't imagine the walking tree; the tale we've fallen into; and many more... steady.page/en/thetolkie...

The One hundred and eighty-ninth Roving Ranger

The Roving Ranger #189 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.

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Given the fact that HarperCollins decided to do a Jansson Hobbit as well (like the Germans and French) here is the podcast you need to listen to on this: open.spotify.com/episode/5c1t...

Tove Jansson's illustrations of "The Hobbit" - special guest: Sonja Virta

A Talk with the Tolkienist · Episode

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Come join us October 3rd and 4th for a mammoth 20-hour marathon livestream to celebrate the site’s 20th anniversary! Guests, giveaways, shenanigans and fun. More info soon.

TolkienGuide 20th Anniversary Livestream - October 3-4, 2026

=20 Hour Anniversary Livestream= The Tolkien Society award-winning website, TolkienGuide.com, was first started in 2006 by @uruloke and has been a place...

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After just missing out on a top-100 spot when judged by *critics*, The Lord of the Rings is #1 when judged by *readers* according to www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int.... Interestingly, Middlemarch, which was #1 on the critics list, is #2 here so sometimes readers and critics *do* agree.

Last bullet point on the latest Tolkien Society CFP: “digital humanities approaches to Tolkienian philology” 🥰

It's a little sad that our Tolkien Poetry site has been down for weeks and no one noticed :-(