The Tolkien Trewsday core poster formed of the Two Trees at the top and their branches and roots forming an enclosure around the space below. Inside this area is the following text: “#TolkienTrewsday takeover April 2026, Rangers of the North, a Tolkien Society Smial” and “Aragorn is seated, are you?”. Below the text is an image of seated Aragorn from the Bakshi animated The Lord of the Rings, holding a pipe to his mouth and a hood over his head. He’s wearing shorts and showing off his legs.

🧙 This April #TolkienTrewsday is being taken over by the Rangers of the North, a @tolkiensociety.org Smial. The themes for the month have been chosen by members from the Smial.

#TolkienTuesday #Tolkien #TolkienSociety #Smial

The deadline to submit a paper or presentation is by the end of the day today! Don’t miss out, I would love to see you there! #westmoot #tolkien #tolkiensociety

🧙‍♂️ And then in April 2026, my local @tolkiensociety.org Smial, the Rangers of the North, will do a theme take over for the whole of April. During this month the #TolkienSociety will be hosting their annual AGM and Springmoot, this year in Manchester – one of the places the ROTN hold moots.

A picture of JRR Tolkien resting against the tree. "Happy birthday, JRR Tolkien"

𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 📖🥃🖤
Today we commemorate the birth of J.R.R. Tolkien, born on 3 January 1892, whose extraordinary imagination gave the world the most enduring and influential works of modern literature.
#talesclub #tolkienworld #talesoftherings
#tolkiensociety #tolkienology

Four photos depict people giving papers at Westmoot 2025.

Call for papers! We are now accepting proposals for papers to be presented at #Westmoot26. Please visit our webpage for more details. #tolkiensociety #intothewest #jrrtolkien @tolkiensociety.org

Image from The Hobbit (1977) animated by Rankin & Bass. Gandalf, wearing a grey cloak and grey pointed hat, has a white beard past his knees. He holds a wooden staff, curled at the top. Smoke rings billow around him as he stands in a green field, next to a large tree trunk. Test reads: Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. A little baked. Questing in my lane. Conjuring. Flourishing.

It's Oxonmoot time! #Oxonmoot #TolkienSociety

A scene from Paddington Station in London showing travelers bustling around and the digital notice board directing you to your train.

The digital notice board at Paddington Station showing the Great Western Railway train I am taking to Oxford.

Great Western Railway train engine in Paddington Station.

Oxford, here I come! #oxonmoot #tolkiensociety

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings On 15 April 1953, J. R. R. Tolkien was at the University of Glasgow to deliver the W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, later published in The Monsters and the Critics, an...

'"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings' in English Studies 105, #6⬇️

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#TolkienScholar #Tolkien #Glasgow #FantasyLit #MiddleEarth #TolkienSociety

So thrilled to make the shortlist! #TolkienSociety #CitiesAndStrongholds

Meet Stef Midlock, your Publicity Officer for #westmoot2025! @stef.athrabeth.com will be sharing updates about and from the conference. Stef and the rest of the team can't wait to welcome you to our event in May!

Stay tuned to meet more members of the #westmoot team!

#tolkiensociety #intothewest

One last reminder that the first Carrock Smial meeting will be tomorrow on Zoom from 8-9 pm PST. Hit up the link in our bio to get in touch for zoom info!

#tolkien #jrrtolkien #tolkiensociety #lordoftherings #lotr #tolkiensocietysmial

Welcome to the Carrock! Use this form to join the Carrock Smial! Please provide your name, pronouns, and email address. This information will only used for Smial business. Meeting information and zoom links will be shared...

Interested in joining a fellowship of Tolkien fans for a new smial? Click the link below to join!

#tolkien #tolkiensociety #tolkiensocietysmial #smial #jrrtolkien

March 2025 Book Club: Tolkien Nonfiction Back by popular demand! It’s time for another installment of our Tolkien nonfiction book club. Sunday, March 2, 2025 – 7:00pm – virtual Instead of a traditional book club, this mo…

The Triangle Tolkienists will be returning from our winter break soon. We're a couple weeks out from this year's #Tolkien nonfiction book club, where each person reads a book of their choice and shares it (virtually) with the group. #TolkienSociety

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Please join us for our inaugural meeting in celebration of Tolkien Reading Day. Come meet fellow NorCal fans and share your favorite passage. March 25, 2025 8:00-9:00 PST on Zoom. Use our Google form (link in bio) to sign up, or email us at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com

Northern California Tolkien fans! There's a new smial in town, The Carrock!

Our first meeting is on Tolkien Reading Day, March 25th, from 8:00-9:00 PST. Bring your favorite Tolkien passage to read and discuss!

Use the link in our bio to join our fellowship!
#tolkien #jrrtolkien #tolkiensociety

Northern California Tolkien fans, watch this space! The Carrock: Northern California Smial is coming soon! #tolkien #tolkiensociety #smial

A hand holding up a copy of Mallorn 65, Amon Hen issue 310, and the 2024 Tolkien Society Christmas card

Not sure if they actually arrived today, as I just got home from a little vacation, but it feels fitting to open this up on the Professor's birthday.

#mallorn #amonhen #tolkiensociety

The new "Amon Hen" (monthly bulletin of The Tolkien Society) arrived yesterday and guess whose painting appears on the back cover again...
I'm sooo excited!!😃♥️

#originalpainting #amonhen #tolkiensociety #manwe #tolkien #lotr #valar #oilpainting #Fantasyartist

How much pre-release backlash to #WarOfTheRohirrim have you all seen?
#Tolkien #LOTR #ROP #WOTR #TolkienSociety

Thank you to the @tolkiensociety.org for a great #TolkienAsHeritage conference! I really enjoyed the stellar presentations! This weekend of scholarship has added greatly to our global Tolkien community's heritage and fellowship. Thank you again!
#TolkienSociety #TolkienSocietyofSerbia

A great presentation of Tolkien’s letters from Jeremy Edmonds- @tolkienguide.com. Fanzines, press kits, published letters, oh my! And there are more out there!
There are over 1364 letters written by Tolkien on the Tolkien Guide website, what an amazing resource! #TolkienSociety #TolkienAsHeritage

Interesting presentation from Mina Lukić about Tolkien heritage as sites of memory. Through a survey, she found that people chose to visit these sites because they are peaceful points of connection that provide immersive insight into Tolkien’s life.
#TolkienSociety #TolkienAsHeritage

Great presentation by Dawn Walls Thumma- fanfiction archives serve as Tolkien heritage as both preservation and evolution. Through fanfiction, people can gain a sense of their own heritage in Tolkien’s world and it helps diverse readers connect to the legendarium. #TolkienSociety #TolkienAsHeritage

Interesting presentation by Dr. Ali Ghaderi about adaptation as living heritage for Tolkien’s text- adaptation connects the text to the needs of modern audiences and acts as an ongoing dialog between different forms of art, often challenging racism and prejudice.
#TolkienSociety #TolkienAsHeritage

Great presentation by Robin Reid investigating Tolkien’s heritage as his influence on writers who follow him. She examined three women fantasy writers: Victoria Goddard, Sarah Monette, and N. K. Jemisin, and how they build upon and subvert Tolkien in their work.
#TolkienSociety #TolkienAsHeritage

Interesting presentation by Emily Baines exploring two spiritual movements based on Tolkien and his writings: The Way of Arda’s Lore, and the movement to canonize Tolkien within Catholicism- both groups interacting with his legendarium in a spiritual sense.
#TolkienSociety #TolkienAsHeritage

I already have an idea for a paper for this. I am beyond excited! #Tolkien #TolkienSociety

Peut être un début de réponse dans l'intervention de Robin Reed ce weekend, qui devrait être bientôt dispo sur youtube : ce weekend c'était plein de conférences à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de #ChristopherTolkien #TolkienSociety

Now it is time to go rest. Hugs to you all! I hope the guest book is still open! #TolkienSociety #ChristopherTolkien

Thank you for all the engaging comments and moments of friendship in the Zoom chat and in the Athrabeth Discord throughout the weekend. We had so much fun in the wee hours of the night. I will never look at turtles or crabs the same way again. Thank you all! #TolkienSociety #ChristopherTolkien

Thank you so much to all the wonderful presenters! I will carry these lessons and stories about Christopher’s body of work, his steadfast guidance, and his inherent generosity with me as I read and enjoy the works of Tolkien. Thank you! #TolkienSociety #ChristopherTolkien