Me after being left behind by AI

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Hello everyone I am opening commissions!!! I need money for traveling in May to Westmoot for incidentals and other such costs.
5/5 slots are currectly open. :)

I’m the tallest one, middle back, hunching to try and fit in with my short pals.

Nice!

Thank you @mikedonachie.bsky.social A German poster all the way from Canada to Scotland. The brilliant animated The Lord of the Rings by @ralphbakshi.bsky.social #LOTR #Tolkien

Songs For The Philologists with Tom Ayling Join us today 2026-04-17 18:00 BST as we talk to Tom Ayling about the copy of the incredibly rare Songs For The Philologists that he has for sale. s://w...

Join the team from @tolkienguide.com later today as we talk to #Tolkien dealer Tom Ayling about the copy of Songs for the Philologists that he has recently aquired and has for sale. www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

The One hundred and eighty-first Roving Ranger The Roving Ranger #181 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.

Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.

Including:

Visit the Tolkien bust; Barth & Tolkien; PA 16 available again; Tolkien & childhood; Bilbo's Long Shadow; Hunt for Gollum news; hobbit home for $50?; Tehran Argonath?; GNU Moo says Tolkien and much more..

Teal and orange RISO print illustration of various Middle Earth scenes/characters as a stamp set. Included are Treeboard overlooking Isengard, Winged Nazgul, Minas Tirith, Rivendell, Barad Dûr, Gandalf riding Shadowflax at dawn on the third day, Minas Morgul, Grishnâkh the orc, The Hollin gate of Moria, Boromir, Bag End and Galadriel.

The Middle Earth Stamp Collection - PRINTS!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/brucemackay/the-middle-earth-stamp-collection

#Illustration #LordOfTheRings

Guide to Tolkien's Letters: J.R.R. Tolkien to Stanley Unwin Relations between Tolkien and Allen & Unwin had begun to become strained as Tolkien felt that A&U were not open to publishing his work as he would have ...

#OnThisDay in 1950, #Tolkien writes to Stanley Unwin.

Relations between Tolkien and Allen & Unwin had begun to become strained as Tolkien felt that A&U were not open to publishing his work as he would have liked, and during this period Tolkien was introduced to Milton Waldman of the (1/5)

Watercolour painting in landscape orientation showing Strider and the hobbits traversing an autumnal, rainy, hillside with mossy rocks, pine trees. Fodo is riding Bill the Pony.

“Journey to Rivendell” (watercolour, 2005)

#TolkienTrewsday
#TolkienTuesday

A clip of Tolkien's letter titled Beautiful place because trees are loved, cut from the yellowed page of The Daily Telegraph from 4 July 1972, and fastened to the background with adhesive tapes. It is owned and copyrighted by The Telegraph. The letter said: Sir, with reference to your leader on 29 June, I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying gloom especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies. Lothlorien is beautiful because there the trees were loved; elsewhere forests are represented as awakening to conscious of themselves. The Old Forest was hostile to two-legged creatures because of the memory of many injuries. Fangorn Forest was old and beautiful, but at the time of the story tense with hostility because it was threatened by machine-loving enemy. Mirkwood had fallen under the domination of a power that hated all living things, but it was restored to beauty and became Greenwood the Great before the end of the story.

"Beautiful Place because Trees are Loved" is the title of Tolkien's letter to The Daily Telegraph (4 July 1972)

A response to an article that used the phrase "Tolkien gloom" for trees, he insisted that he's always on the side of trees against their enemies. 1/4

#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

I’ll be there again with lots of fun stuff! Including some Beyond Bree calendars and back issues. 😁

A movie couple that would definitely have a podcast.

(they do)

A portrait of Legolas. He is holding a crystal in his hand. He wears a delicate tiara with a leaf motif and a jewel.

"Gimli's Gift" Watercolor. This was drawn in highly rendered pencil and finished with light washes. #lotr #lordoftherings #watercolor #legolas

A pencil portrait of Billy Boyd as Pipping from the Lord of the Rings films. He has a slight smile. He is wearing a scarf.

A pencil portrait of Pippin! Say that three times fast. I used to do a lot of Lord of the Rings subjects, both from film and book sources. Some of my earliest sales at science fiction conventions back in the 1970's were of Lord of the Rings fan art. #lotr #lordoftherings #pippin #billyboyd

Photo of the front and back of the newly reprinted "Parma Eldalamberon 16: Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets"

"Parma Eldalamberon 16: Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets, Part 1" is available again on demand at:

The Great British Bookshop:
www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/search?type=...

and at Barnes and Noble:
www.barnesandnoble.com/s/parma%20el...

Great news from the wonderful Pat Cadigan:
“In case you couldn’t hear me partying here in London, I beat terminal cancer. I kicked its ass down the stairs, took its lunch money, and threw rocks at it as it ran away crying. I don’t have cancer any more.”

a cartoon character is wearing a ring around his neck ALT: a cartoon character is wearing a ring around his neck

My husband bought me an original @ralphbakshi.bsky.social LotR animation cel and I have to wait till my birthday in October to get my mitts on it 😰

It is 2026 and AI generated 'content' is flooding the internet.

To find relevant information is getting more difficult with every day.

The ROVING RANGER, the free, weekly, all things Tolkienian Newsletter is curated by me, drawing on 30+ years of experience in fandom and scholarship.

We welcome our #Westmoot26 attendees for a panel after the performance of The Hobbit! Panelists: Scott Gilbert, Director; Keven Lock, Set Designer; Isabelle Hopewell, Bilbo; Bryce Kalal, Ensemble/Thorin; Winifred Froelich, Ensemble/Gandalf; Adam Iverson, Ensemble/Kili/Smaug. #westmoot #intothewest

Artemis 2 crew wearing solar glasses

Looks like my fav 90’s ska band #Artemis2 has released their reunion album!

Congratulations! Well deserved

Vote Now in the 2026 Tolkien Society Awards The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce the shortlists for The Tolkien Society Awards 2026. Voting is open exclusively to members of the Society through the Members' Area. Shortlist This year marks...

I’m so honored to have been included in the shortlist for the 2026 Tolkien Society Awards for ‘Best Online Content’.

Members of the TS may vote online in the Members’ Area of the Tolkien Society website before April 24.

Best wishes to all of the nominees. 💕

www.tolkiensociety.org/2026/04/vote...

Today's reading. With pictures. #Tolkien #TheHobbit

Have you heard? The @athraplay.athrabeth.com cast is coming to #Westmoot26! Wait - what’s Westmoot, you ask? Well, listen closely and the cast will explain all…
#westmoot #athraplay #intothewest

Tolkien On Fairy-stories The Tolkien Society 'Big Read': Session 1

Sneak peak for our first Big Read session: Erik Jampa Andersson on Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories”!

erikjampa.substack.com/p/tolkien-on...

Thrilled to have been shortlisted for best book category for my book Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc 😄

Awesome!

graphical display of position of Artemis II and Moon relative to Earth with trails showing previous days' locations.

Artemis II page on Space Missions is now geocentric rather than heliocentric so you can see the positions of spacecraft and moon distinct from Earth!

space-missions.com/mission/arte...