What is the Roving Ranger+?

… and a list of posts so far.

If you want to know what the Roving Ranger newsletter is then simply hop on over to Roving Ranger Special Edition - A warm welcome (Opens in a new window).

Full list of Roving Ranger+ posts so far below.

But if there is already newsletter - why have an extra edition of it?

Well, for quite some time I could only do a bi-weekly edition of the newsletter. And even when I am doing it weekly there are some pieces of news that simply cannot wait to be shared.

So I decided to have sort of a special category blog post here with Steady so I could inform Tolkien fans whenever anything exciting and/ or important happened - as quickly as possible.

Let me give you a few examples

So here is a list of Roving Ranger + so far

2023

January. 27. Royal Mint Tolkien coins (Opens in a new window)
February. 8. Tolkien Society Awards' nominations (Opens in a new window)
March. 24. "Tolkien letters shine new light on writer’s life and work" (Opens in a new window)
March. 24. RR+: New Illustrated Edition of 'The Hobbit' Announced (Opens in a new window)
March. 24. 'Lord of the Rings' musical tickets now available (Opens in a new window)
March. 25. Tolkien and Smith Conference, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Opens in a new window)
March. 28. 70 years after - Tolkien's lecture on Sir Gawain in Glasgow (Opens in a new window)
March. 29. Tolkien Society Awards - vote now open! (Opens in a new window)
April. 10. The Bod is archiving tweets (Opens in a new window) - including me 🤩
April. 18. Lord of the Rings: Gollum, the Precious Edition (Opens in a new window)
May. 19. Two Tolkien Lectures (Opens in a new window), perfectly linked!
June. 10. A new and revised edition (Opens in a new window) of 'Letters'
October. 9. Why LotR: Gollum (Opens in a new window) had to fail
November. 11. Does Orkish Sound Evil (Opens in a new window)?

2024

January. 6. On ‘Tolkien and CS Lewis manuscripts (Opens in a new window) among treasures made available to public in 2023’.
January. 18. ‘Lord the Rings’ show in Tampere (Opens in a new window), Finland - again.
January. 28. HarperCollins releases UK ‘HoMe’ paperback covers (Opens in a new window).
January. 28. “The Hobbit” at the CCOC (Opens in a new window) in Toronto.
February. 2. The NZ Post Collectables (Opens in a new window) - the ‘Lord of the Rings’ 20th Anniversary series.
March. 11. The Hobbit translated into Romansh (Opens in a new window) - crowdfunding now!
March. 12. The Collected Poems (Opens in a new window) of J.R.R. Tolkien (several updates)
April. 30. Lord of the Bins (Opens in a new window) - what has happened to them?
April. 10. Paul Corfield Godfrey’s ‘Musical Chapters’ (Opens in a new window) from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ set to be recorded (updates as occasion arises)
October. 2. Did I ever expect Aston Villa, Bayern Munich and Tolkien to be named in the same sentence? (Opens in a new window)
December. 7. Tolkienian storm names 2024-2025 (Opens in a new window)

2025

January. 13. The Tolkien Tapestries are coming to Paris (Opens in a new window).