The Ninetieth Roving Ranger

Life and Works

Don't forget - if you happen to find a Hobbit first edition it may get you £10,000 like this Dundee charity shop copy (Abre numa nova janela).

Also, if you happen to have Dorothy L. Sayers' personal copy (Abre numa nova janela) of the publication Tolkien was first ever published in - it will definitely go to auction.

Events & Shows

People in Augusta, Georgia, can visit The Art of the Rings at Le Chat Noir (Abre numa nova janela), 'an exhibition of local artists works inspired by The Lord of the Rings.'

The No Strings Marionette Company (Abre numa nova janela) is bringing The Hobbit to life in October (Abre numa nova janela) in New York at the Doctorow Center.

Profs and Pints DC is bringing Peter Grybauskas (Abre numa nova janela) (ed. to Battle of Maldon) to Washington, DC.

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

Scholarship and Fandom

Tweaking Things a Little (Abre numa nova janela) by Honegger and Larrington is out on July 19th.

The Museum of the Great War at Meaux is having guided tours and talks in July 'in the footsteps of Tolkien (Abre numa nova janela)' to commemorate his passing fifty years ago.

Franchise and Merchandise

Alan Lee is the artist for the upcoming 2024 Tolkien Calendar (Abre numa nova janela).

The moment collectible card games arrived on the fantasy and science fiction market with Magic: The Gathering back in the 1990s huge parts of fandom changed. It is not surprising that collectors' boxes prices are soaring (Abre numa nova janela) - due to that one One Ring card having been handled at $2+ million (Abre numa nova janela). [Polygon; WSJ (paywall)] P.S. Someone in Toronto (Abre numa nova janela) found it. [CBC]

On a more positive note, the head designer (Abre numa nova janela) for this version of MTG, Mark Rosewater (Abre numa nova janela), has been given one of the industry's major honours.

And hilariously enough, Bakshi's LotR film (Abre numa nova janela) is part of this MTG edition.

If you feel like investing some of your money Tolkien's letters are an excellent option - at a recent auction they were sold well above asking price (Abre numa nova janela) [Artdaily].

The actress playing Galadriel with the LotR musical at the Watermill (Abre numa nova janela) has given an interview. [Westend Best Friend]

Inter alia & Back in the day

A set of signed Tolkien letters was auctioned off well above estimate prices (Abre numa nova janela); the one in which he compares himself to a hobbit went for $20,000; more background info (Abre numa nova janela). [Fine Books Magazine]

Paramount+ axed a number of shows, including Star Trek: Prodigy (Abre numa nova janela). [Variety] Engadget notes this happens for a tax-write-off (Abre numa nova janela).

The Writers' Strike (Abre numa nova janela) is now getting bigger with the actors and actresses joining in - because studios now suggested scanning performers as 3d models once, paying them for a day, and then owning their image 'for the rest of eternity'. [Vulture]

Rings of Power did get Emmy nominations (Abre numa nova janela) but not the more important ones. [Hollywood Reporter]

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction has announced this year's shortlist (Abre numa nova janela). [Locus]

AHSOKA (Abre numa nova janela)'s offical trailer is out (let's be honest, it is all about Thrawn!)

Nice to listen to GRRM talking about Zelazny (Abre numa nova janela) etc.

It is often the ingenuity of one person that makes a book a bestseller - for France this was Christine Baker (Abre numa nova janela) who bought the rights to Harry Potter and several Tolkien publications for Gallimard Jeunesse (Abre numa nova janela). [Guardian]

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