The One-hundred and tenth Roving Ranger
Have a look at all Roving Rangers published so far. (Abre numa nova janela)
Life and Works
The Collected Poems Arrive (Abre numa nova janela) [Too Many Books and Never Enough]; interview with the authors (Abre numa nova janela), start at 26:25 [BBC]
Full of sound and Faërie (Abre numa nova janela) [John Garth; TLS (paywall)]
The review by the team of the Tolkien Collectors’s Guide (Abre numa nova janela).
Michael Drout (Beowulf and the Critics (Abre numa nova janela) and co-editor of Tolkien Studies (Abre numa nova janela)) had this to say:
https://x.com/MikeDrout/status/1836969823093276869 (Abre numa nova janela)Events & Shows
Tolkien and His Editors (Abre numa nova janela) - the German Tolkien Society’s hybrid seminar [Oct 11-13]
The National Children’s Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, is showing The Hobbit (Abre numa nova janela) until October.
David Bratman has a short report (Abre numa nova janela) on The Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference (Abre numa nova janela).
The wonderful Mike Foster has been remembered with a A Party of Special Significance (Abre numa nova janela).
The Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has a Call for Papers (Abre numa nova janela) for the online conference MAGIC FARE: Gastronomic Dimensions of Fantasy Worlduilding. [PDF with Google Drive; deadline: Dec 10]
The Abilene Public Library is offering events for Hobbit Week (Abre numa nova janela) (adorable colouring sheets!)
Forodrim (Sweden) are celebrating their 54 year anniversary (Abre numa nova janela) and are giving plenty of advance notice for their four days of festivities - it’s in 2026!
TORn are doing their LA Baggins Birthday Bash (Abre numa nova janela), as is their wont!
A new Tolkien documentary is coming Dec, 5th (Abre numa nova janela) - and I’m in it [thetolkienist.com]
For all events (Abre numa nova janela) check out the International Tolkien Fellowship (Abre numa nova janela) [FB] and the Tolkien Guide Calendar (Abre numa nova janela).
Scholarship & Fandom
‘Never trust a Philologist’: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Place of Philology in English Studies (Abre numa nova janela) (Simon Horobin, h/t Carl Hostetter)
Ryszard Derdziński has shared his latest version of his Tolkien Ancestry | Research Summary (Abre numa nova janela) [Academia.edu (Abre numa nova janela)]
John D. Rateliff has I.C.E. / E.Q. books (pick a path books (Abre numa nova janela)).
The Hungarian Tolkien Society (Abre numa nova janela) has recently published another edition of its Lassi Laurië - most is in Hungarian but there are summaries (Abre numa nova janela) & general info (Abre numa nova janela).
Tom Hillman has The "Real Reason"® Hobbits Don't Like Boats (Abre numa nova janela).
Thoughts on Tolkien has The Woven Layers of Myth and History (Abre numa nova janela).
Volume 19, Issue 2, of the Journal of Tolkien Research has been adding more material, including Christian Trenk’s “And each day after they did likewise.” Looking at Life Together as the Fulcrum of Éowyn’s and Faramir’s Love Story (Abre numa nova janela).
David Bratman has two more reviews, on Ordway and Horobin (Abre numa nova janela).
Thorin’s the nickname: Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction (Abre numa nova janela) [Cell Genomics]
→ Now, the net dumbs this down, of course, particularly on the headlines: "An ancient Neanderthal lineage remained isolated from other populations for over 50,000 years—up until the species extinction" (Abre numa nova janela) turns into → "Meet Thorin: A Cave-Dwelling Population Of Neanderthals Were Isolated For 50,000 Years" (Abre numa nova janela) → and finally Genetic analysis of Neanderthal named for Tolkien character reveals history of inbreeding (Abre numa nova janela).
Nota bene It is often time-consuming to find the best summary to the original.
Merchandise & Franchise
The Lord of the Rings Star Sir Ian McKellen Says The Hunt for Gollum Will Be A Two-Parter (Abre numa nova janela) [SFF Gazette] | Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch (Abre numa nova janela) [Guardian]
The Daily Heller: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien Together Again (Abre numa nova janela) [PrintMag]
Tales of the Shire (Abre numa nova janela) (Sept 22 showcase) and other projects beside by Weta Workshop will be doing things for ‘Hobbit Week’. The official Xitter account announced that the game will be delayed (Abre numa nova janela) until 2025.
LotRO Before the Shadow is now Free – and a free gift! (Abre numa nova janela) [redeem by Sept 25]
Amazon Touts ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 2 Ratings as Strong, Yet Below First Season (Abre numa nova janela) [Hollywood Reporter] | ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 2 Reaches 40 Million Viewers in 11 Days, Amazon Says (Abre numa nova janela) [Variety] | Hell on Middle-earth? The Rings of Power fails to spin streaming gold (Abre numa nova janela) [Guardian] | ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘Rings of Power’ Facing Epic Headaches (Abre numa nova janela) [Hollywood Reporter] | The Rings of Power: season two is a vast improvement – and a meditation on the dangerous allure of AI (Abre numa nova janela) [Conversation] | The Real Reason Tolkien Fans Can’t Stand ‘The Rings Of Power’—It’s Not Just ‘Trolls’ (Abre numa nova janela) [Forbes] | The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Has an Accent Problem [TV Guide]
Why is no one talking about this glaringly obvious problem with prequels? (Abre numa nova janela) [Cosmopolitan]
Inter alia & Back in the Day
James Earl Jones has passed away [Star Wars (Abre numa nova janela); People (Abre numa nova janela); Variety (Abre numa nova janela); Wikipedia (Abre numa nova janela)]
‘Good Omens’: Production Paused On Amazon Drama From Neil Gaiman [Deadline (Abre numa nova janela)]
New Harry Potter series launches casting call (Abre numa nova janela) [BBC]
Ryan is always enlightening: AI Bots Have Taken Over Facebook (Abre numa nova janela) [Youtube]
Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (Abre numa nova janela) is coming in November. [Blackwell’s affiliate link]
Industrial Light & Magic’s Everlasting Star Trek III Starship Designs (Abre numa nova janela) [ILM]
The Emmys ignored the genre completely but Shogun certainly won (Abre numa nova janela). [File770]
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