🌟Happy News to share today! I've been honored to create the #Oxonmoot 2026 logo for @tolkiensociety.org and have a blog post all about the artwork today. Please, come celebrate with me! www.miriamellis.com/post/happy-n...
There‘s a great illustration for that chapter from #Oxonmoot two years ago, as @drhannahmcd.bsky.social and @ashiggins.bsky.social will surely still remember :-)
I wrote a little diary of my time in Oxford for #Oxonmoot, which you can read on my blog before I overthink and delete it because I forgot to mention multiple people and the delightful moments I shared with them.
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A group of Westmoot attendees and committee members (many dressed in green Westmoot shirts) standing in front of an ornate door at Oxonmoot, showcasing camaraderie and enthusiasm.
A week ago, lovely #Westmoot25 attendees and committee members met at #Oxonmoot for a photo. It was a wonderful time in Oxford, and what a pleasure it was to see our Westmoot pals again. It made us excited for #Westmoot26!
Thanks for a great moot, @tolkiensociety.org!
#westmoot #intothewest
Front cover of a 1970s Penguin paperback book, The Flight of the Heron by D K Broster.
Obsessed with this 1920s Jacobite bromance I picked up at #Oxonmoot.
This was intended as a humorous posting as I could not possibility post the wild life at #Oxonmoot as the sign of #Tolkien nerds enjoying themselves would be too much to be viewed by the general public. Also I'd gone to bed before things got wild on Saturday night which is why I was up early. 😃
Here's a video of the Enyalie ceremony at @tolkiensociety.org's Oxonmoot conference this year -- featuring a reading, wreath-laying, and the song "Namarie", sung at J.R.R. Tolkien's grave. #Tolkien #oxonmoot
@jenniferhurd.bsky.social Hi Jennifer! Your talk at #oxonmoot was fantastic! I never thought about what goes into the research that you do at the Oxford English Dictionary, it was so cool to hear about it! I actually just bought a subscription to the website! Thank you for the great talk! 💜
a grass river meadow with geese in the foreground and horses behind them. Boats can be seen on the river Thames on the left.
Managed to see some wildlife at #Oxonmoot this year
Stef Midlock, Jude Vais, Sara Brown, and Kristine Larsen share a selfie after their session at Oxonmoot 2025!
The wonderful audience at our session!
Sara Brown and Kristine Larsen before the session at Oxonmoot 2025!
Stef Midlock, Jude Vais, Sara Brown, and Kristine Larsen share a group shot after their session at Oxonmoot 2025!
It was so fun! Thank you to our guests @aranelparmadil.bsky.social and @jrrtastrochick.bsky.social, you were both spectacular and hilarious!
Thank you to the @tolkiensociety.org for having us back! 💚
Thank you to all the wonderful folks who came and tuned in online! We appreciate you!
#oxonmoot
JRR and Edith's grave at Wolvercote cemetery with the wreaths from the various Tolkien societies.
Another fantastic #Oxonmoot is over and the waters of Anduin have once again carried me back into the real world. Thank you to all the @tolkiensociety.org peeps who made this year so wonderful. Whether you were in the team putting it on, one of the stewards helping out or just an attendee
Am enjoying the @thesillymarillion.bsky.social on the way home from #Oxonmoot having discovered it there via @itstoriello.bsky.social, and I really hope we find out what happened to Stef's chameleon .... 🦎😁
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📸🌸 Nuestra querida @finduriel.bsky.social ha colocado un ramo de flores en nombre de la STE en la tumba de JRR Tolkien y su esposa Edith en el marco de la celebración de la #Oxonmoot
I didn’t leave the moot at 4 in the morning, I swear. 🤪
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On the one hand I am very sad not to be at #Oxonmoot - I can't join in the festivities in person and chat with wonderfully glorious people (quite besides the fact that my love Susi ❤️ said yes at the Trout last year so PERSONAL connection 🤩!) -, on the other hand...
Still cheering and laughing over @podcast.athrabeth.com 's Tolkien's Try-hard Troublemakers! Wonderful guests, wonderful presentations, if you weren't at #oxonmoot @tolkiensociety.org be sure to catch the recording when it comes out!
With @shaungunner.bsky.social, Brian Sibley, Jay Johnstone, and @aranelparmadil.bsky.social, making fools of ourselves in “Just a minute in Middle-earth” at #Oxonmoot!
@tolkiensociety.org
A graphic with the name of the session and the special Athrabeth Oxonmoot 2025 logo featuring the city skyline.
Today is the day!
Folks attending #Oxonmoot in person or online, come join us at 11:00 am BST for “Athrabeth Podcast Live: Tolkien's Try-hard Troublemakers” with the extremely cool @aranelparmadil.bsky.social and @jrrtastrochick.bsky.social!
See you soon @tolkiensociety.org!
Westmoot folks who are attending Oxonmoot this weekend- we’re going to take a Westmoot group photo in front of the dining hall at 11:30! Spread the word! See you soon!
#westmoot #oxonmoot #intothewest
Westmoot folks who are attending Oxonmoot this weekend- we’re going to take a Westmoot group photo in front of the dining hall at 11:30! Spread the word!
#westmoot #oxonmoot #intothewest
Westmoot 2025 attendee, Zak Francis, dressed as Frodo Baggins in a green waistcoat, is holding Sting and a yellow ring, appearing heroic as he presents the One Ring to the audience.
From all of us at Westmoot, we hope everyone has a great time this weekend at #Oxonmoot, whether you are attending in-person or online!
Pictured here is Frodo Baggins- oops, we meant Zak Francis, carrying the Ring to Mordor and making a quick stop at #Westmoot25.
#westmoot #intothewest
Today I present on "Alliterative Verse in Arda" at the Tolkien Society's Oxonmoot. So in the spirit of the occasion, this thread links you to poems set in Tolkien's Middle Earth. #Tolkien #Oxonmoot @tolkiensociety.org #alliterative #poetry #Arda
An absolutely cheery Sadoc Burrows (Lenny Henry in Amazon's Rings of Power) greets the morning and the world with his sunny disposition with his usual "Good morning" and a smile.
🧙 Good morning!
Day one proper of @tolkiensociety.org #Oxonmoot! I'm online again for this year (hopefully in-person next year).
I'll try to post thoughts and other things over the course of the next three days.
#Oxonmoot2025 #Tolkien
Today's #Tolkien #HobbitDay #HobbitMonth Tidbit as #Oxonmoot begins!
Gathering with fellow readers is our chance to be a Window on the West for one another, giving a glimpse of light and hope on life's challenging journey. May our hobbit hearts be lifted in the company of good folk.
🎼🎶The boys are back in town!🎵🎶
#oxonmoot
An image from the Treasured exhibition showing an illustrated page by JRR Tolkien (Polar Bear felling down the stairs) and the Father Christmas letter that goes with it.
Folks at #oxonmoot! There is a Tolkien Father Christmas letter in the free “Treasured” exhibition in the Weston Library!
