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A little delayed, but I also felt compelled to attempt to draw Smaug as described. Bat-like and long, seem to be the main features.

@rangedtouch.bsky.social here, a Wizard Lee. Using colors based entirely on the logo. Wielding both an orb and a bookstaff.

I know it's poor form to laugh at your own jokes but I've been chucking quietly to myself about my dogshit Fred Flintstone impression since cutting this clip

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I had a dream last night that I’d found a mid 2000s licensed PS2 game based on the Halloween/LOTR crossover you all dreamed up. It was a linear FPS campaign à la Medal of Honor Rising Sun, for some reason.

[sotto voce] the arkanstone

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Today's SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Episode, for our lovely Patreon supporters, concerns the sometimes strange but very much endearing classic Rankin/Bass adaptation of THE HOBBIT. Yabba-dabba-doo! www.patreon.com/posts/shelve...

If you missed it, you can listen to my hourlong interview on Ranged Touch for free!* *But the show is totally worth subscribing to as well!

Wasn’t prepared for the description of that LotR concert at the end of the episode

Another tremendous episode of Shelved By Genre, so much so I had to add the beat to @ckunzelman.bsky.social’s “Bombadil’s Delight.” m.soundcloud.com/rheteric/bom...

been looking forward to this interview since @meredithgran.com mentioned it. it's great that it is free, but consider supporting Ranged Touch via Patreon as well. I can't think of much else currently that is consistently as interesting, entertaining, and enriching as the shows they create.

samwise gamgee @rangedtouch.bsky.social

I had such a good time in conversation with @ckunzelman.bsky.social . You can listen here for free!

An evening bonus: an hour-long interview with @meredithgran.com about the wonderful PERFECT TIDES: STATION TO STATION. Check it out for free over on the Ranged Touch Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/meredi...

i have explained subcreation. i will explain it one more time, if you do good. i will explain it... two more times, if you do bad.

Now in your podcatcher: SHELVED BY GENRE continues THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, taking time to discuss our love of bathtime with the fellas, ominous hedges, and of course, the man himself, the greatest secret Peter Jackson was too cowardly to film: rangedtouch.com/2026/03/13/t...

incredible

Now in your podcatcher: SHELVED BY GENRE continues THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, taking time to discuss our love of bathtime with the fellas, ominous hedges, and of course, the man himself, the greatest secret Peter Jackson was too cowardly to film: rangedtouch.com/2026/03/13/t...

we love a man who you look at and think "that's right, sometimes you wonder if you picked the right shirt for the day. that's My Experience"

a movie I truly loved and also hated in basically equal measure

Just finished this episode & all hail mother I guess 😆 I can’t recommend Just King Things enough. If you love Stephen King you really should be listening , it’s been a bright spot in my days and even if we don’t always agree on how good or bad a book is , I always get a good chuckle 10/10 Ka-tets

'eeeey, we're walking here! This month's JUST KING THINGS Bonus Ep is out for Patreon supporters, who can hear us discuss the film's real mixed bag of great performances and shoestring production that is 2025's adaptation of THE LONG WALK: www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...

After conquering the Crime Novel in 2014, Stephen King went retro and produced a new horror classic melding the nostalgia of the Saturday Evening Post with the cosmic bleakness of Lovecraft. It's called REVIVAL and we talk about it on the latest JUST KING THINGS: rangedtouch.com/2026/03/09/r...

We will be doing a Ranged Touch hangout at Adepticon on Friday, March 27th at 3pm! Location announced on the day, but it will be somewhere in the Baird Center.

Hell yeah i love Book of the New Sun

#ShelvedbyGenre #LordoftheYear

you ever look back with immense sorrow and pity at the needlessly bitter but intensely pursued agendas of people trapped in a world they don't realize is preparing to die in a frenzy

A busy weekend pushed us out a day or two, but as of yesterday your podcatcher should have received the latest episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we journey into the deep past with the debut issue of GAME STUDIES from the alien world of July of 2001 rangedtouch.com/2026/03/02/9...

my interpretation of Sam Gamgee and his weird bag hat for @rangedtouch.bsky.social

A long-expected episode: prepare your party favors, brush up on your lore, and get your traveling cloaks ready as SHELVED BY GENRE embarks on the Quest of the Ring today with our first episode on J.R.R. Tolkien's THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. rangedtouch.com/2026/02/27/t...

Fellowship eppie in process, there was a technical issue and our geckos are hammering on the website

LATE ANNOUNCEMENT: This month's Game Studies Study Buddies will be a discussion of the first issue of COMPUTER GAME STUDIES from 2001 www.gamestudies.org/0101/

elfs are one billion years old and dwarfs are 27 or 52 years old. Thats the rules.

It's a bonus episode week, which means Patreon supporters get access to our discussion of some MOVIES! Today we finished off the Peter Jackson Hobbit films in a two-for-one mega-episode, considering them as a sort of noble experiment with some really bizarre outcomes. www.patreon.com/posts/151240...

Listening to Shelved By Genre talk about Tolkien's drawing of Bagend, I mocked up a quick Blender scene of the perspective to see just how big that door really is. Answer: Quiet Large. @rangedtouch.bsky.social @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social @austinwalker.bsky.social

@rangedtouch.bsky.social Will this Jordy Verrill be the first official action figure released of Uncle Steve himself?

...the arkenstone....

or lord of the year. whatever

speaking of, if any tobacco and tobacco accessory outfits (famously numerous here on bluesky) have some Tolkien-themed products they can send samples to @ztul.bsky.social for review during the Year of the Ring

We went there, and now we're back again! Today Shelved by Genre concludes our reading of THE HOBBIT, discussing a bit more Tolkien's literary scholarship as it inflects his aesthetic projects and why therefore Beowulf needed a little guy who followed him around. rangedtouch.com/2026/02/13/t...

Crime Novel Steve is here.

Over on our Patreon, this month's JUST KING THINGS Bonus Episode sees us undertaking something slightly new: discussing a three-season TV show that adapts a trilogy of books. So far it's mainly a good time! www.patreon.com/posts/150368...