The One hundred and forty-third Roving Ranger

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Life and Works

June 27, 1916. Tolkien leaves Étaples (Abre numa nova janela), and goes to the Somme front (Abre numa nova janela).
June 28, 1915. Tolkien applies at the Oxford (Abre numa nova janela) recruiting office to join the army (Abre numa nova janela).
June 28, 1919. The Treaty of Versailles is signed and the First World War officially ends.
June 29, 1917. Tolkien succumbs to gastritis while at Brocton Camp, and is sent to Brooklands Officers' Hospital in Kingston-upon-Hull.
July 1, 1916. Robert Gilson (Abre numa nova janela) is one of the first of the 360,000 British casualties of the Battle of the Somme (Abre numa nova janela) when he is hit by a shell at La Boiselle (Abre numa nova janela).

Third Age (Abre numa nova janela), 3018 (Abre numa nova janela): Boromir (Abre numa nova janela) sets out from Minas Tirith (Abre numa nova janela) to ask for counsel at Rivendell (Abre numa nova janela).[July 4]

Parma Eldalamberon 17: Words, Phrases & Passages in The Lord of the Rings is available again on demand at The Great British Bookshop (Abre numa nova janela) and Barnes & Noble (Abre numa nova janela).

Barbara Holdridge (Abre numa nova janela), the audio book pioneer and co-founder of Caedmon Audio (Abre numa nova janela), has passed away (much of the recorded material by Tolkien (Abre numa nova janela), CJRT and Donald Swann has been published first with Caedmon; it is now a subdivision of HarperCollins.). [Obituaries: Observer (Abre numa nova janela) | Publishers Weekly (Abre numa nova janela)]

Events & Shows

The Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor is celebrating its Slotfeest this weekend (Abre numa nova janela).

Holly Ordway has a report from Paris: The Christian Consonance of Middle-earth: A Landmark International Conference. (Abre numa nova janela) [Word on Fire]

For all events check out the International Tolkien Fellowship (Abre numa nova janela) [FB] and the Tolkien Guide Calendar (Abre numa nova janela).

Scholarship & Fandom

Stephen C. winter has “You May Know, or Guess, What Kind of a Tale it is… But The People in It Don’t Know. And You Don’t Want Them To.” Frodo Speaks About The Best Kind of Stories (Abre numa nova janela).

Will Sherwood has The Fantastic Symphony of Middle-earth (Abre numa nova janela).

Jason Fisher has “The Ulsterior Motive” and other unpublished writings of Tolkien (Abre numa nova janela).

The Journal of Tolkien Research has Bilbo's Boethian Heroism (Abre numa nova janela).

doubttfulsea has Starre-crost (Abre numa nova janela).

The Oxford Tolkien Network has added more videos (Abre numa nova janela) of their talks’ series.¹

Miriam Ellis has The Deep and Humorous Riches of The Quest of Erebor.

https://www.miriamellis.com/post/the-deep-and-humorous-riches-of-the-quest-of-erebor (Abre numa nova janela)

Merchandise & Franchise

Matt Leacock has Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship – Design Diary (Abre numa nova janela).

One of the best board games out there is getting a new lease of life - via crowdfunding: The Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation Ultimate Edition (Abre numa nova janela).

This Infamous 'Lord of the Rings' Movie Is Getting a Special Edition 15 Years After Its Original Blu-ray Release (Abre numa nova janela) [Collider; on the Ralph Bakshi film]

LEGO Ideas has A Night to Remember in The Shire (Abre numa nova janela) [enter your builds into the competition until Aug 6.]

Amazon has announced a sweeping £40 billion investment in the UK (Abre numa nova janela) [Business Matters; see press release (Abre numa nova janela).]

Inter alia

Christopher Lockett has Supplemental Sourcery Thoughts (Abre numa nova janela) [on Pratchett, Tolkien et al.; Substack]

The recent screening of a first print of the first Star Wars film has led to a lot of negative, clickbaity posts; good to see NPR offers This is not the 'Star Wars' you thought you knew (Abre numa nova janela).

The Locus Awards winners have been announced (Abre numa nova janela).²

Probably one of the dumbest ‘games’ out there, Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator (1 & 2), allows you to pit millions of units from all periods and all imaginations to fight each other. A recent example? The Battle of Helms’s Deep but with chicken and ostriches defending (Abre numa nova janela).³

Robert Reich (Abre numa nova janela) has The Most Dangerous Corporation in America (Abre numa nova janela) (Palantir). [Substack]

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Have a look at all Roving Rangers published so far. (Abre numa nova janela)

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