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 (Abre numa nova janela) in Poggio a Caiano, Italy [next biggest city is Bologna]

The Hobbit is showing with Enter Stage Right (Abre numa nova janela). [March]

For all events check out the Tolkien Guide (Abre numa nova janela).

I am doing a global map for Tolkien Reading Day (Abre numa nova janela), 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 (Abre numa nova janela) | YT (Abre numa nova janela) | RSS feed (Abre numa nova janela)]

Scholarship & Fandom

Don’t forget:

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

Dimitra Fimi has Little People and Miniature Worlds: Contexts and Chronologies (with Tolkien as a guide!) (Abre numa nova janela) [Substack]

doubtfulsea has Eavesdropping (Abre numa nova janela).

Graham Scheper has published a rendition of Tolkien’s Ides Aelfscyne (Abre numa nova janela) [Youtube]

Abigail Nussbaum has The Great Tolkien Reread: In the House of Tom Bombadil (Abre numa nova janela) [Blogspot]

A must read for those of us who volunteer: How to Recover from Volunteer Burnout (Abre numa nova janela) [SFWA]

Tom Hillman has A Ghostly Link between Tolkien and Charles Williams? (Abre numa nova janela) [Blogspot]

Miriam Ellis has The Fox and the Hobbits: Grimmian Wonder. (Abre numa nova janela)

John Garth has My 2025 with Tolkien – from Faërie to Minnesota (Abre numa nova janela). [Wordpress]

Andrew Higgins has Exploring Invented Languages (Abre numa nova janela) [Substack]

The Silmarillion — Clowes First State (Paper Binding Variant) (1977) (Abre numa nova janela) [Blogspot]

Stephen C. Winter has “You Forget to Whom You Speak.” Aragorn Declares Himself to Sauron in The Stone of Orthanc (Abre numa nova janela).

Merchandise & Franchise

A new boardgame from Office Dog Games: LotR: Circle of Conflict (Abre numa nova janela).

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

Film Ireland has The Scariest Moments in The Lord of the Rings, 25 Years On (Abre numa nova janela).

Corsair is halting Drop sales after March 25th (Abre numa nova janela) [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 (Abre numa nova janela) [Substack]

Inter alia

William Butler Yeats Makes a Buck (Three superbiae and a clusterfuck) (Abre numa nova janela)[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 (Abre numa nova janela) [Oxford Mail]

Jeff LaSala has Just Change the Title! Problem Solved (Abre numa nova janela).

Ansible 464 (Abre numa nova janela) has been published.

‘Harry Potter’ Reboot Prompts Major Licensing Deal With Hasbro (Abre numa nova janela) [LA Magazine]

Can New Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro Weather AI, Revitalize ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel and Save the Magic Kingdom? (Abre numa nova janela) [Variety]

What Is Palantir? An FAQ (Abre numa nova janela) [The Ringer]

Bret Devereaux is starting another series I’ll make sure to read: Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches (Abre numa nova janela).

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