Well, this is delightful - Tolkien's own melody for Chip the Glasses brought to life with an octave mandolin. www.youtube.com/shorts/PXrNi... #Tolkien

The #Tolkien Great Tales Deluxe editions coming out in June and July 2026, edited by Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee. www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Studio Ghibli E21 of The Complete Catalog is live! @cinemallennials.bsky.social and I discuss TALES FROM EARTHSEA, widely regarded as one of the worst Ghibli films. But we actually think it has a lot of positives to offer, even as we acknowledge its glaring shortcomings. Links 👇

Túrin may have made a lot of bad decisions but beaning Saeros in the dome with a cup was not one of them

Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”

AI tech companies illegally downloaded and destroyed millions of books.

This is church

J.R.R. Tolkien and the community his writings built stands against fascism, colonization and hate. Amazon’s The Rings of Power series should reflect this and the lessons that Tolkien was looking to pass on to his audience. Unchecked greed and lust for unobtainable power leads to destruction.

On 25 January, T.A. 3019 in J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: the Battle of the Peak on Celebdil. Gandalf the Grey casts down the Balrog, but passes away following the ordeal. He later comes back as Gandalf the White. #lotr #booksky

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Denna dagen 2020 gick Christopher Tolkien bort -95 år gammal. Christopher förvaltade sin faders litterära kvarlåtenskap efter Professorns död. Inte minst genom hans enträgna arbete med flerbandsverket The History of Middle-earth #OTD #Tolkien #Booksky

Where am I in Middle-Earth? #tolkien #lotr #nature #lordoftherings

Don’t sell your soul… Fuck the Kingsmen 🧊 #ice #lotr #tolkien #lordoftherings

Some topical thoughts on Tolkien and Beauty #tolkien #lotr #middleearth #lordoftherings

Tolkien as a Literature of Resistamce. #tolkien #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings

Tolkien as a Literature of Resistamce. #tolkien #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings

Tolkien as a Literature of Resistamce. #tolkien #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings Sorry it got cut short a bit.

First post on Tolkien as a Literature of Resistamce. #tolkien #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings

Bringing quality lore to you. 😂 #tolkien #lordoftherings #middleearth #lotr #loremaster

Part one of two - moving these over from TikTok strictly as some of these posts are longer than this app allows for. #tolkien #lotr #tolkienresistamce #middleearth

Part 2 of 2 #tolkien #lotr #middleearth #tolkienresistance #lordoftherings

At a church in Minneapolis that is hosting an anti-ICE singing vigil, which will later process through the neighborhood. They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”

Part 21: The Nirnaeth Arnoediad and its interpretations. Shoutout to Mithgond and Casey for the idea! #lotr #lordoftherings #tolkien #jrrtolkien #silmarillion #thesilmarillion #sauron #morgoth #nirnaetharnoediad #kenburnscivilwar #unumberedtears

The joy of last minute mountain excursions is that you get to play audience to dancing threads of clouds.

Scotland’s sublimity sometimes needs to take a backseat. #Scotland #Flowers #Waterfall #Dunkeld #Ossian

Moving my Tolkien content over from the ClockApp.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

10,000+ people showed up for Renee Nicole Good 🕊️

James Boyle explains why concentration of market power is dangerous—but when oligopoly locks arms with IP, it becomes a near-unbreakable set of manacles around the #publicdomain.⛓️ 🎙️ Learn more in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen now ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

Arda Revised: The History of the Children of Ilúvalar and The Sources with David the Ñgoldo #lotr #silmarillion #jrrtolkien #tengwar #medieval #illuminatedmanuscripts #greenscreen

I find this image very pleasing #language #tolkien

Starting next week is the online course 'Tolkien and his Medieval Sources' with live classes each Thursday for six weeks. Get the details and sign up at medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/tolk... #Tolkien

This is the most comprehensive article written on this topic. Just wish they would use The Fall of Númenor as an example.

Sometimes I think about Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industries and Tolkien's strong views on the threat of the Machine, and I get so mad I could spit. I get that the names #Tolkien created aren't explicitly copyrightable, but I hate these companies giving them their own social meaning.

New Arda Revised video made to accompan @cinemallennials.bsky.social ‘s recent video on Rúmil & what makes one “great” among the Eldar. #Tolkien #Luinelle www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MFVPyf/

New longer form video comparing the historiographies of Numenor with those of TaNaKh’s Deuteronomist(s) as part of @cinemallennials.bsky.social & I’s “Arda Revised” series. #Tolkien #Luinelle www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MLNKk8/

These articles never do enough in trying to say how vehemently Tolkien would have HATED these technocrat losers and how they completely misread his life’s work. Stop using just LOTR use his works on the Second Age too. They never include the Fall of Númenor www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...

Who is Grond?

Welsh was spoken across Britain before English even existed. But now the PM says it’s the only *official* language of the UK State. Here’s why he’s wrong. ✍️Owen Williams

This Good Friday, ICE are the centurions dragging Jesus to Golgotha and the crowd baying for his blood are a lot of Americans who'd consider themselves Bible-believing Christians. Kyrie Eleison.

You're a divinity school. Where do you think Jesus was from, you cowards?

For any who need to hear it (I'm one such):

#tolkientuesday 🙃

Nimloth the Fair #thesilmarillion #lordoftherings #tolkien #isildur #nimloth #numenor #akallabeth #medievalart #fantasyart #illustration

This is unacceptable, and as an identifiably Jewish academic, I have to say: Not in my name. I refuse to be the government’s excuse for xenophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-Palestinian racism. This is not for my safety, and it never will be.

That's not to say there wasn't racial hierarchy, of course. But Tolkien already wrote the Númenóreans as a Mediterranean-style society most akin to Byzantium (remember, Constantinople was modern-day Istanbul) or Egypt (North Africa) and he compared later Gondor to those same cultures.