Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉
@thetolkienist.com
Indie #Tolkien scholar | Founder GermanTolkSoc #TolkienFolk | Travelling Tolkienist | Crowdfund my work via Steady https://steady.page/thetolkienist 🧙♂️🧝✨ he/him
Formerly known as the 'Wise Sam Gamgees' the 'Society of the Lost & Found' has redone its crowdfunding and is successful already. As Bruce Hopkins (Gamling) is the leading role I'm sure it's going be just splendiferous - chip in share, whatever is possible 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...
SOCIETY OF THE LOST & FOUND - New Zealand Short Film
When a grieving father joins a group of LOTR fans on a location tour in New Zealand, he is given the salvation he never knew he needed.
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For those of you who don't know it...I'm also the co-founder to the first ever Tolkien-inspired football fan club in the world, afaik 😂⚽ thetolkienist.com/2023/06/17/t...
You asked, we listened! We’re giving you more opportunities to step INSIDE the iconic Radcliffe Camera by hosting extra Radcliffe Camera and City of Oxford Walking Tours. Find out more: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tours/city-oxford-walking-tours
From the early days of #Tolkien illustration the innovative, colourful images of Hugo awarding winning fantasy/sci fi elder Tim Kirk shine out like Gondorian beacons. Here's one of my favourites, Frodo, Sam and Gimli peering into the starry depths of Mirrormere (c.1974).
I wrote an essay on the right-wing and Tolkien... but it is in Spanish. It was published here: legendariaediciones.com/libros/ensay...
J.R.R. Tolkien en el Reino Peligroso - Legendaria ediciones | Editorial de literatura fantástica
Divulgativo Tolkien El Señor de los Anillos
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You've probably noticed that a lot of right-wing ghouls love The Lord of the Rings: Giorgia Meloni, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, many such cases. In my latest essay, I set out to put neofascist affinity for Tolkien in religious and historical context - and to show why the far right gets Tolkien wrong.
Fascism and Faërie
Fantastic Antitheses
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Bon lundi à tous. Pour bien commencer la semaine, je vous dévoile en avant-première la couverture de mon prochain ouvrage co-écrit avec Damien Bador et Jean-Rodolphe Turlin : L'Encyclopédie du Seigneur des Anneaux et le Troisième Âge à paraître chez Gründ, le 8 octobre prochain en édition reliée.
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers. Including: Pipe smoking; Hobbit at the Fringe; ring and fish; RoP at SDCC; 15 years of Tolkien's sources; mapping Middle-earth (LotRO); Scotty's the Balrog; future of pubs is in your hand!... steady.page/en/thetolkie...
The One hundred and ninety-fourth Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #194 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
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A Top #Tolkien Community FAQ: What do Mallorn trees look like? All my research in one new blog post, to help you have a vivid idea of leaves, flowers, bark, size, and more: www.miriamellis.com/post/what-do...
What Does a Mallorn Tree Look Like? A Visual Guide to Seeing Tolkien's Mellyrn in Nature.
"If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, Niekas Publications, 1966One of the reas...
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Currently marked down at Amazon, but now available at a *significant* discount through The Quartermaster's Store at Annandale Military Academy: _Treble Magicke_, the omnibus edition of my three novels about AMA. #writingcommunity #indieauthors www.annandalemilitary.net/quartermaste...
I am very excited to be part of this conference: Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty, organised by Jocelyn Hargrave at University of Derby. This will be my very first conference paper, and I am delighted and grateful for the opportunity! details below. 🧡 www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty
The Publishing Programme is holding an online two-day conference on 1–2 September 2026 to mark this ten-year anniversary, and to reflect on the sociocultural, economic and practical implications for t...
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📢 Nuevos invitados confirmados para la Estelcon 2026: ✅ Vicky Hidalgo, editora y actualmente directora editorial de @minotaurolibros.bsky.social ✅ Ross Smith, autor de «Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien», próximamente en castellano con Legendaria Ediciones
¡Envía tu fotografía y gana fabulosos premios! Participa en el "Premio Bárbol de Fotografía, la temática es: sol y sombras. Envía tu imagen antes de que acabe julio. - https://nazg.eu/barbol #Bárbol #Fotografía #Concurso #Tolkien
🧙♂️ #TolkienTrewsday 📆 Week 179 (28/07/26): “Pity” Theme request by Robin Propst. #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
Can't put into his words how glorious it is that my girl - a hobbit lady called Mentha Tunnelly - is with me and Jenas Tirith for the first in a football (soccer) game, the first ever Tolkien-inspired football fan club in the world ⚽😍😎🌍
Just finished ASSASINATION CLASSROOM as I needed some weird af Japanese anime again - and because I don't know enough about modern Japanese culture I can't judge whether it's military propaganda, cultural respect for teachers and/or teaching, or abusive education. www.netflix.com/us/title/800...
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A destructive alien who is threatening Earth becomes a schoolteacher whose students are tasked with killing him, even though they adore his fun ways.
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Weekend #Tolkien Thread. Lovely Faramir, who comes from a city without enough gardens, remarks in some surprise to the hobbits, "Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardeners be in high honour." He is actually quite..
“Tol Eressëa” (watercolour, 2026) One of six new artworks I’m currently working on for a book about the history of the Elves to be published by Legendaria Ediciones.
Muchas gracias a Javier Noriega por el bello artículo que le dedica a la nueva edición de las "Cartas" de #Tolkien. «una publicación largamente esperada por los lectores en lengua española, deliciosamente traducida por Finduriel, Mónica Sanz en la tierra de los mortales».
Started work on a new painting for the Two Trees of Valinor. I cannot share anything visually yet, but since landscape is the theme, here is a recent visit to the Wizard's Vale and Orthanc the home of Saruman. Inspiration for this painting.. Orthanc 36" x 36" Oil on Panel 2024 private collection
Since I'm soon to head for Oklahoma and Mythcon, I thought I would answer some important questions about what this thing is I am going out to! If it is something that interests you, feel free to ask me questions! www.mythsoc.org #jbriceodom #mythcon #mythsoc #tolkien #lewis #inklings
Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers. Including: Loads on RoP, SDCC, BBC LotR, conferences around the world, Odyseeus and Aragorn, calls for papers, new books, Finrod walks with Finarfin, and much, much more... steady.page/en/thetolkie...
The One hundred and ninety-third Roving Ranger
The Roving Ranger #193 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.
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It is good to see Celeborn is alive _and_ he is a sexy hunk. 👍 www.empireonline.com/tv/news/jami...
From Vecna to "lover-boy": Jamie Campbell Bower's secret Rings Of Power role revealed (Exclusive)
Empire unveils the mysterious character joining Middle-earth in Season 3 of Prime Video's Lord Of The Rings series. Read more.
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The Black Riders party post-Weathertop. No wait, it's Dance of Death by Michael Wolgemut (1493). #Tolkien
Ten years ago (!), I had the chance to translate in French the two essays about his grandfather he wrote and published on his own website. www.tolkiendil.com/tolkien/etud... www.tolkiendil.com/tolkien/etud...
Essai autobiographique sur mon grand-père J.R.R. Tolkien - Tolkiendil
Tolkiendil, association des passionnés de l'œuvre de J.R.R. Tolkien dans le monde francophone.
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Dr Grace Khuri@gracekhuri.bsky.social · 3w agoOn 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...
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & WEEKEND FESTIVITIES WITH @GERMANTOLKSOC 🎉🤗 It is an absolute pleasure and quite the honour as founder and honorary member to the German Tolkien Society to travel to the middle of beautiful Thuringia and participate in this event of about 150 people at Lützensömmern Manor 🎉🤗
The #mythcon54 schedule is live! And the program book! We are one week away and there is still time to register at www.mythcon.org! Program book: drive.google.com/file/d/1kMS_...
