One hundred and twenty-sixth Roving Ranger

Life and Works

Parma Eldalamberon 20 : The Qenya Alphabet is available again on demand at Barnes & Noble (Abre numa nova janela) as well as The Great British Bookshop (Abre numa nova janela) [Bluesky (Abre numa nova janela)]

Events & Shows

Michael Drout will be giving a talk at UMass Lowell titled "Making I = Eye: How the One Ring Works in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings'" (Abre numa nova janela) [March 24]

The Hobbit is on with the Theatre of Youth (Abre numa nova janela) [Buffalo, NY]

The Hobbit is on with the Kings Mountain Little Theatre (Abre numa nova janela) [North Carolina]

The New England Youth Theatre (Abre numa nova janela) is offering effects classes (Abre numa nova janela) meant for their upcoming Hobbit rendition.

The Magic of Middle-Earth exhibition is on tour again, this time in Dorset (Abre numa nova janela).

The seven-graders (Abre numa nova janela) at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School in Baton Rouge, LA, loved dressing in Hobbit attire as well.

Aragorn's Birthday - Lord of the Rings Party! (Abre numa nova janela) is happening at Serpentine Cider in San Diego. [h/t Tolkien Guide]

The New York Tolkien Conference has - in preparation for its 2025 rendition - a look back at 2019 (Abre numa nova janela) (which was quite exceptional; (Abre numa nova janela) I participated but need to write on the conference - and even more things as well.)

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

John Garth has Mordor on the Oxford express. (Abre numa nova janela)

Thoughts on Tolkien has The Vocation of Faramir (Abre numa nova janela).

Stephen C. Winter has ” Good Night, Captain, my Lord,” Sam Said to Faramir. “You Took the Chance, Sir.” Praise From the Praiseworthy in Henneth Annûn. (Abre numa nova janela)

Will Sherwood has Eldest and Oldest: Middle-earth’s Mother/Father Trees (Abre numa nova janela).

A redditor has come up with renditions of Tolkien swords (Abre numa nova janela).

There are two new posts at thetolkienist.com: “Hearses at Daybreak”: How a Tolkien birthday card has made the rounds on the Internet (Abre numa nova janela) & F2M2: How Aragorn is Sherlock Holmes and Germanicus and was married to Minerva McGonagall (Abre numa nova janela).

The German Tolkien Society’s Seminar has its CfP (Abre numa nova janela) - Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market.

Robin Reid has Horses (a fun post!) (Abre numa nova janela)

Gandalf's First Lessons in Pity for Hobbits? [Miriam Ellis]

Merchandise & Franchise

Warner Bros. is shuttering Monolith Productions (Abre numa nova janela) (LotR: Shadows of Mordor etc.) [Wertzone]

Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum Movie Gets Release Window (Abre numa nova janela) from Andy Serkis [The Direct]

Amazon to launch linear TV channel Prime in Germany (Abre numa nova janela) [Broadband TV News]

Lord of the Rings Online unexpectedly breaks out Update 43 (Abre numa nova janela): Secrets of Utug-bûr [Massively OP]

Inter alia

BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent (Abre numa nova janela) [Guardian]

Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling (Abre numa nova janela) [Ars Technica]

Have you ever wondered… (Abre numa nova janela) how Ancestry make so many records available on their website? Following an enquiry last year, we realised some of you may be curious as to the details… [The Iron Room aka Library of Birmingham]

Cristian Spagnuolo: Technicolor´s Failure: The End of an Era of Exploitation (Abre numa nova janela) [h/t INDAC]; Shaun Severi: The problem wasn’t talent or execution — it was mismanagement at the highest levels (Abre numa nova janela).

Lord of the Rings actor Bruce Hopkins continues charity tradition (Abre numa nova janela) with 69 backflips for 69 years of life [New Zealand Herald; Gamling is the best!]

Kathleen Kennedy Speaks On Her Lucasfilm Plans — She Is Not Soon Retiring (Abre numa nova janela)— & The Films That Will Keep Her In ‘Star Wars’ Orbit For Years To Come [Deadline]

 The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Nominations (Abre numa nova janela) are now open.

The five-year RIDDELL (Abre numa nova janela) [Brian Sibley]

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