The good news is that you’re safe in Rivendell; the bad news is that you have an all-day meeting scheduled for tomorrow.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 12: Desolated. Have a listen:

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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 11: Passive Prophecy. Have a listen:

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Good With The Bad: The Rings Of Power, Season One. Have a listen:

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 10: Best Of Luck. Have a listen:

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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit (1977). Have a listen:

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Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

Happy #HobbitDay, one and all! #Tolkien

Happy birthday to J.R.R. #Tolkien’s The Hobbit, published #OTD in 1937, with a gorgeous dust jacket and illustrations by Tolkien himself! @tolkiensociety.org @tolkienwonder.bsky.social @uofgfantasy.bsky.social #Hobbit 🐉

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 9: The Road Is. Have a listen:

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: In Case Of Emergency, Break World. Have a listen:

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 8: Zootopia. Have a listen:

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“A woman, like a sword, can be both beautiful and perilous, shining and sharp, protective and deadly.” My new post explores some of the source material potentially connected to Eowyn’s character: thoughtsontolkien.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/e...

This week, we’re discussing #TheWaroftheRohirrim movie! If you haven’t seen it yet, now’s the time!

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 7: Into The Wild. Have a listen:

COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME? 😀 I would love to have my newsletter get to 1,000+ subscribers by Frodo's and Bilbo's Birthday on Sept 22... ... but for that I would need your support in sharing this and letting people know about THE ROVING RANGER. If you need to hear a reason why... here are seven 😅

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: Other Minds And Hands. Have a listen:

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 6: More Questions Than Answers. Have a listen:

Alastair! Re QUAFF and LAUGH: the vowel sets those words belong to are *very* variable from accent to accent, merged in some and split in others. I can't pinpoint one that JRRT might have had in mind here, but I note that Walker's Rhyming Dictionary (London, 1775) lists them as a perfect rhyme...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Returned King. Have a listen:

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 5: Down Down To Goblin Town. Have a listen:

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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 4: The Edge Of The Wild. Have a listen:

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Happy 71st birthday to the book that is the first two books of my favorite book, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring!

Get in losers we’re disassociating from the political reality and putting on the extended edition Lord of the Rings movies 🎥

A beautiful map of Middle-earth illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Tolkien wrote to Baynes: ”Some of these pictures agree remarkably with my own vision: especially the first four on the right”

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: 5: The Arc Reacter. Have a listen:

Personally, I don’t think there’s a better way of honoring Professor Tolkien’s lifetime of hard work, creative integrity and love of the natural world than posting an AI-generated video of Gandalf slamming an energy drink and base-jumping off Orthanc while fireworks explode in the background.

JRRT must have been so thrilled when speech-act theory became a thing.

A malevolent genie tells you that one of these actors needs to be recast, or the entire Jackson trilogy disappears. Who goes? Who, circa 1999/2000, replaces them?

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 2: Less Noise And More Green. Have a listen:

Magic and mystery! Are there different categories of magic in Middle-earth? Why is free will the most important thing? How to adaptations of Tolkien’s stories to compare to other authors? Don’t miss the new episode!

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: 3: Sufficiently Advanced Magic. Have a listen:

Not much, just out here valuing food and cheer and song above hoarded gold. You?

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: The Hobbit 1: A Wide World. Have a listen:

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