The One hundred and seventy-seventh Roving Ranger

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Events & Shows

The exhibition “Da Tolkien a Narnia: Illustrations of Pauline Baynes” will be running until March 7th at the Scuderie Medicee (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in Poggio a Caiano, Italy [next biggest city is Bologna]

The Hobbit is showing with Enter Stage Right (Si apre in una nuova finestra). [March]

For all events check out the Tolkien Guide (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

I am doing a global map for Tolkien Reading Day (Si apre in una nuova finestra), with events from Tolkien societies & smials, libraries and cultural partners, who have Middle-earth in their hearts. Send me your links!

My podcast: A Talk with the Tolkienist [Spotify (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | YT (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | RSS feed (Si apre in una nuova finestra)]

Scholarship & Fandom

Don’t forget:

Matej Cadil has The Little Blade from Gondolin: Drawing Sting (Si apre in una nuova finestra). [Substack]

The Journal of Tolkien Research has added two new reviews: Numenor, The Mighty and Frail: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2023 (2025), ed. by Will Sherwood (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and Queer Approaches to Tolkien: Essays on the Many Paths to Middle-earth (2025), edited by Robin Anne Reid, Christopher Vaccaro, and Stephen Yandell. (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

Dimitra Fimi has Little People and Miniature Worlds: Contexts and Chronologies (with Tolkien as a guide!) (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Substack]

doubtfulsea has Eavesdropping (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

Graham Scheper has published a rendition of Tolkien’s Ides Aelfscyne (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Youtube]

Abigail Nussbaum has The Great Tolkien Reread: In the House of Tom Bombadil (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Blogspot]

A must read for those of us who volunteer: How to Recover from Volunteer Burnout (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [SFWA]

Tom Hillman has A Ghostly Link between Tolkien and Charles Williams? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Blogspot]

Miriam Ellis has The Fox and the Hobbits: Grimmian Wonder. (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

John Garth has My 2025 with Tolkien – from Faërie to Minnesota (Si apre in una nuova finestra). [Wordpress]

Andrew Higgins has Exploring Invented Languages (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Substack]

The Silmarillion — Clowes First State (Paper Binding Variant) (1977) (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Blogspot]

Stephen C. Winter has “You Forget to Whom You Speak.” Aragorn Declares Himself to Sauron in The Stone of Orthanc (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

Merchandise & Franchise

A new boardgame from Office Dog Games: LotR: Circle of Conflict (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

Nacon Files for Insolvency Days Before Its Big Showcase and Just Over 2 Weeks Before GreedFall 2 Releases Its Full 1.0 Version (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [IGN; Nacon was the publisher to LotR: Gollum]

Film Ireland has The Scariest Moments in The Lord of the Rings, 25 Years On (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

Corsair is halting Drop sales after March 25th (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Verge]

A very good write-up on the Warner Bros./ Discovery sale: Too Much TV: Behind The Scenes Of Netflix's Decision To Drop Bid For WBD (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Substack]

Inter alia

William Butler Yeats Makes a Buck (Three superbiae and a clusterfuck) (Si apre in una nuova finestra)[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Substack]

The Lamb & Flag doing what it should be doing: Famous Oxford pub now has its own group of writers (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Oxford Mail]

Jeff LaSala has Just Change the Title! Problem Solved (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

Ansible 464 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) has been published.

‘Harry Potter’ Reboot Prompts Major Licensing Deal With Hasbro (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [LA Magazine]

Can New Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro Weather AI, Revitalize ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel and Save the Magic Kingdom? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [Variety]

What Is Palantir? An FAQ (Si apre in una nuova finestra) [The Ringer]

Bret Devereaux is starting another series I’ll make sure to read: Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

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