The One-hundred and fifth Roving Ranger

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

Life and Works

July 12, 1973. The University of Edinburgh confers an Honorary Degree (Abre numa nova janela) on Tolkien.
July 14, 1916. The 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (including Tolkien) is sent into action at the Somme (Abre numa nova janela) front.
July 15, 1919. Tolkien is officially released from service, well over a year after the war (Abre numa nova janela)'s end.
July 16, 1924. Tolkien is appointed Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds (Abre numa nova janela).
July 18, 1962. Tolkien writes Letter 238 (Abre numa nova janela), on Pearl, Sir Gawain, Bombadil etc.
July 21, 1946. Tolkienwrites (Abre numa nova janela)Letter 105 (Abre numa nova janela), on LotR, Farmer Giles, etc.
July 22, 1925. Tolkien writes Letter 8 (Abre numa nova janela); on his election to the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship.
July 24, 1973. Tolkien writes Letter 326 (Abre numa nova janela), lamenting that he and Rayner Unwin could not spend much time together anymore.

All date (Abre numa nova janela)s are tak (Abre numa nova janela)en from Tolkien Gateway. (Abre numa nova janela)

A (Abre numa nova janela)must have - (Abre numa nova janela) the exhibition catalogue (Abre numa nova janela) to the Tolkien tapestries’ project (Abre numa nova janela) in Aubusson [FR/EN]; on the exhibition (Abre numa nova janela) [Actual News, EN], and the original post (Abre numa nova janela) with France Info [FR].

The single most expensive copy of The Hobbit has been sold for $300,000 (Abre numa nova janela) [ArtDaily].

Publisher overwhelmed by response to Welsh Hobbit (Abre numa nova janela)[Nation Cymru]

Events & Shows

An exceptional collection of Tolkien letters, calligraphy (Abre numa nova janela) etc. has just come under the hammer. [Sotheby’s]

French Association Tolkiendil have published a video of the opening (Abre numa nova janela) of the final exhibition of the arguably most important art project in many a year - “Aubusson weaves Tolkien.” [Youtube]

The US-based Children’s Literature Association (Abre numa nova janela) has a Call for Papers - due September 2024 - on A Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (Abre numa nova janela). [PDF]

The Tolkien Society has teamed up with the Serbian Tolkien Society (Abre numa nova janela) to offer their hybrid seminar (Belgrade & online) on Dec 7-8: Tolkien as Heritage (Abre numa nova janela).

If you happen to be in Connecticut in November why not have a look at the 2nd Annual Hobbit Harvest: Farmers market & Craft (Abre numa nova janela) in Salem (free)

The John Howe exhibition is now on in Tampere, Finland (Abre numa nova janela).

The German Tolkien Society’s Tolkien Thing is happening this weekend (Abre numa nova janela); the guest society is Finland, the GoH German Tolkien publisher’s - Hobbitpresse (Abre numa nova janela) - editor, Stephan Askani.

The LotR Musical (Abre numa nova janela) is starting its run in Chicago on July 19. And it is coming to New Zealand (Abre numa nova janela) as well [What’s on Stage]

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 and Fandom

The Tales after Tolkien Society has announced that the upcoming IMC (Abre numa nova janela) has accepted their proposal: Return of the Franchise: Twenty-First-Century Continuations of Tolkien's Medievalism (Abre numa nova janela).

Signum Press have published a CfP for a Philology Anthology (Abre numa nova janela).

The excellent Jeff LaSala - you may have read some of his pieces with Tor.com (Abre numa nova janela) - has started a new blog: Foreshadowed and Foresung (Abre numa nova janela).

French collector Rodrigue Petit (Instagram: rodchess (Abre numa nova janela)) has written an article on his hobby for The Introvert (Abre numa nova janela).

Giovanni Carmine Costabile’s The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature (Abre numa nova janela) is freely available as eBook and PDF [Peter Lang]

Published with the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (Abre numa nova janela) is the magazine Comunicación. Vol. 33 Núm. 1 (2024) has a special Tolkien section (Abre numa nova janela); the download is for free as PDF [in Spanish]; h/t to Tolkien Gleanings 213.

Composer and conductor Johan de Meji (Abre numa nova janela) (LotR Symphony #1 (Abre numa nova janela)) has handed over his archives to the Library of Congress (Abre numa nova janela) (Facebook).

Volume 19, issue 1, of the Journal of Tolkien Research has added number of reviews and conference papers (Abre numa nova janela) recently.

Tom Hillman has some thoughts on Face up, Face down with Gollum and Boethius (Abre numa nova janela).

Robin Reid has announced a new publication: Critical Explorations in Tolkien Studies (Abre numa nova janela) and has invited Advisory Board applications (Abre numa nova janela). [Substack]

Miriam Ellis has some thoughts on: The Fine Frailty of Gandalf and the Long Service of Círdan (Abre numa nova janela).

Andrew Higgins has shared the CFP for Tolkien at Leeds International Medieval Congress (Abre numa nova janela). (7-10 July 2025)

Franchise and Merchandise

The amazing Kiran Shah has been made an MBE (Abre numa nova janela). [Independent; Wikipedia (Abre numa nova janela)]

An article by IGN, including a visit to the set, images, videos: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 — 50 New Details From the Set of Middle-earth (Abre numa nova janela). And a first look of Cirdan (Abre numa nova janela) [Entertainment Weekly] | Meet The Rings Of Power’s New Hill-Troll, Inspired By Breaking Bad’s Mike Ehrmantraut (Abre numa nova janela) [Empire] | The LotR: Rings of Power will be coming to San Diego Comic Con (Abre numa nova janela), inviting many influencers along the way. Also, TORn has much on the beginning publicity tour (Abre numa nova janela) on Season 2.

The Tolkien Calendar 2025 (Abre numa nova janela) is published on July 18th.

The Hobbiton movie set came #10 in a piece on “most magical travel destinations (Abre numa nova janela)”; more importantly, Lauterbrunnen was at #7 which means Middle-earth tourism belongs to the biggest money makers out there. [Sligo; Webarchive]

LotRO will be getting its own official Discord (Abre numa nova janela). [Massively OP]

Bag End (Abre numa nova janela) might be LEGO’ed. [Brick Fanatics]

Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, and Ian McKellen get together for food travelog (Abre numa nova janela). [Deadline]

Inter alia & Back in the day

St John Henry Newman College, a “new school in the classical tradition” to be launched in Brisbane (Abre numa nova janela) [Cath News], introducing students to ‘great books’:

“For the juniors, that’ll be Aesop’s fables, Beatrix Potter, Winnie the Pooh and Wind in the Willows, C.S. Lewis’s Narnia and Tolkien’’ (…)

It is both a sad as well as a lovely story: 'Hobbit Hut' opens at County Durham school as teacher's dream realised (Abre numa nova janela) [Northern Echo]

Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Disposessed is the inspiration to True Voyage is Return (Abre numa nova janela), an art project planning to write a 90,000 word novel in a Birmingham, UK, café. [University of Birmingham press release (Abre numa nova janela)]

A review of The Island by Nicholas Jenkins (Abre numa nova janela) mentions Tolkien.

‘Harry Potter’ TV Series WON’T Replace the Films, Will Acknowledge Them as Canon, WB Confirms (Abre numa nova janela) [Inside the Magic]

Ansible 444 (Abre numa nova janela) has been published.

How big of a deal are the HUGOs (Abre numa nova janela)? [File 770]

Mary Robinette Kowal has a Kickstarter (Abre numa nova janela) on an upcoming anthology.

David Bratman has a few comments on the Harlan Ellison book project (Abre numa nova janela).

Paramount Global Officially Agrees To Skydance Merger (Abre numa nova janela), With Potential Big Impact On Star Trek’s Future [trekmovie.com (Abre numa nova janela)]

An in-depth interview: ILM’s chief creative officer reveals the secrets of building the Star Wars universe (Abre numa nova janela) [Fast Company]

George R.R. Martin has questions on his chocolate self. (Abre numa nova janela)

Bracket symbols, well explained: (Abre numa nova janela)

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