The One hundred and seventy-seventh Roving Ranger

-:- Strange as news from Bree -:-

Events & Shows

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

The Hobbit is showing with Enter Stage Right (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). [March]

For all events check out the Tolkien Guide (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

I am doing a global map for Tolkien Reading Day (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), 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 (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | YT (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | RSS feed (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)]

Scholarship & Fandom

Don’t forget:

Matej Cadil has The Little Blade from Gondolin: Drawing Sting (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). [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 (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) and Queer Approaches to Tolkien: Essays on the Many Paths to Middle-earth (2025), edited by Robin Anne Reid, Christopher Vaccaro, and Stephen Yandell. (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

Dimitra Fimi has Little People and Miniature Worlds: Contexts and Chronologies (with Tolkien as a guide!) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Substack]

doubtfulsea has Eavesdropping (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

Graham Scheper has published a rendition of Tolkien’s Ides Aelfscyne (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Youtube]

Abigail Nussbaum has The Great Tolkien Reread: In the House of Tom Bombadil (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Blogspot]

A must read for those of us who volunteer: How to Recover from Volunteer Burnout (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [SFWA]

Tom Hillman has A Ghostly Link between Tolkien and Charles Williams? (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Blogspot]

Miriam Ellis has The Fox and the Hobbits: Grimmian Wonder. (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

John Garth has My 2025 with Tolkien – from Faërie to Minnesota (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). [Wordpress]

Andrew Higgins has Exploring Invented Languages (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Substack]

The Silmarillion — Clowes First State (Paper Binding Variant) (1977) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Blogspot]

Stephen C. Winter has “You Forget to Whom You Speak.” Aragorn Declares Himself to Sauron in The Stone of Orthanc (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

Merchandise & Franchise

A new boardgame from Office Dog Games: LotR: Circle of Conflict (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

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

Film Ireland has The Scariest Moments in The Lord of the Rings, 25 Years On (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

Corsair is halting Drop sales after March 25th (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [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 (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Substack]

Inter alia

William Butler Yeats Makes a Buck (Three superbiae and a clusterfuck) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)[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 (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Oxford Mail]

Jeff LaSala has Just Change the Title! Problem Solved (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

Ansible 464 (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) has been published.

‘Harry Potter’ Reboot Prompts Major Licensing Deal With Hasbro (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [LA Magazine]

Can New Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro Weather AI, Revitalize ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel and Save the Magic Kingdom? (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [Variety]

What Is Palantir? An FAQ (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) [The Ringer]

Bret Devereaux is starting another series I’ll make sure to read: Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).

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