Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers (#1 for 2026; the Epiphany Edition!) Including: Grocery Boy in The Hobbit; accessible Hobbit; Tolkien & Austen; Hunt for Gollum facts; thermal insulation of hobbit holes; hobbit pinball; books & games and more...

Incrementally adding more books and series covers to the Tolkien Books Database. A long way to go still even to finish the UK editions but check out the roadmap and how to contribute! books.digitaltolkien.com

HoMe Base News: Added Chapter Pages, P-Text pages, and citation index for Volume 10 home.digitaltolkien.com/volume/10/

Incrementally adding more books and series covers to the Tolkien Books Database. A long way to go still even to finish the UK editions but check out the roadmap and how to contribute! books.digitaltolkien.com

With some people here seemingly confused about the Hunt for Gollum film that's about to start production, here an old thread talking about the source material...

HoMe Base News: Added Chapter Pages, P-Text pages, and citation index for Volume 10 home.digitaltolkien.com/volume/10/

Roverandom was first published 5th January, 1998 books.digitaltolkien.com/work/roveran...

It's time for the 2026 Mythopoeic awards! You have until February 15th to provide us with suggestions for the best in Fantasy (children, YA, & adult) & Scholarship (Inklings & Myth/Fantasy studies). You can also join our committees to be a part of the process. More info: mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

Updated our main site digitaltolkien.com with the various things that have happened in the last couple of months (HoMe Base, Year in Review, Books DB, etc)

Updated our main site digitaltolkien.com with the various things that have happened in the last couple of months (HoMe Base, Year in Review, Books DB, etc)

The Professor! books.digitaltolkien.com #TolkienBirthdayToast

Digital Tolkien Project – the gift that keeps on giving

The Professor! books.digitaltolkien.com #TolkienBirthdayToast

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WORK IN PROGRESS: #TOLKIEN BIRTHDAY TOAST! Events all across the world, collected via Google Maps! Let me know if you want to be added! maps.app.goo.gl/vCDSFPzAC6zd...

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Each month of the Beyond Bree calendar also features a secondary piece along with the grid. January 2026 features "Thief!" by George Dunn, previously appearing in the 1994 calendar and the July 2001 issue of Beyond Bree. 4/4

The art for January 2026 is "Before the rising of the sun Eärendil slew Ancalagon the Black", by Nancy Martsch. Nancy started the Beyond Bree newsletter in 1981, and has been publishing it monthly since then without fail. This piece previously appeared in the 2020 and 1988 calendars. 3/4

The cover features brand new art from Ruth Lacon, made specially for this calendar. If you look closely you can find Niggle, the Inklings, a Hobbit drinking a pint, Barliman Butterbur, a Ringwraith, Gandalf in the archives, Nancy working on a Beyond Bree issue, Tom Bombadil, Strider and more! 2/4

Each month I am going to share with you a bit about the art in the Beyond Bree 2026 Calendar, as I am very proud of it, and the artists who are featured. For January, I will also talk about the fantastic cover art. This calendar is still available for ordering from beyondbree.org 1/4 🧵

I have a theory that is even further supported by the fact that Tom Shippey’s Road to Middle-earth was given an ISBN starting 0-04-80 not 0-04-82. They chose to assign ISBNs based on the Dewey Decimal Class! (820 = English Literature; 800 = Literary Criticism) Can anyone officially confirm? 2/2

Noticed a pattern in how Unwin assigned ISBNs in the 70s/80s that I only noticed compiling data for the Tolkien Books DB. After the 0-04-, the publication part of the ISBN starts 82 for all the Tolkien books even though these were assigned early on and, starting 1990, lower numbers were used. 1/2

The TolkienGuide team will do our livestream end-of-year wrapup on Saturday January 3rd - hope to see some of you there! youtu.be/kERKDUjcHXk

books.digitaltolkien.com Early prototype launching in three days

books.digitaltolkien.com Early prototype launching in three days

If you would like to see all the images, start here ⬇️

Had a few tens of new followers the last couple of days culminating in hitting exactly 4,000 about 20 hours ago. It's remarkably stayed exactly at that count since then!

In which Tom pays me the greatest compliment I have ever received!

Actually I think we’ll get there today!

We may yet get to 4,000 followers by Tolkien’s birthday :-)

On the long flight got a decent amount done on the Tolkien Books DB and made huge progress on Chants of Sennaar.

More people should follow @digitaltolkien.com. It's the most useful site for studying the books, and it's pretty cool, too. The work James and his team have done really makes my work on Tolkien easier. If I wonder how JRRT uses a certain word or words, this site is my first stop.

Welcome new followers! I realize a lot of you came via a broader Tolkien starter pack but if you’re interested in the Digital Tolkien Project, here’s a recent video…

The very first volume I bought (in 1988 when I was 14 years old)

home.digitaltolkien.com/search/ now support searching the P-text of Volume 3

home.digitaltolkien.com/search/ now support searching the P-text of Volume 3

Really looking forward to this release next year (May 2026) from @harpercollins.bsky.social #Tolkien www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

In case you missed it…

Speaking of "Lord of the Rings cover bands" which is trending... I've always wanted to start a Smiths cover band called The Smiths of Eregion. This Charming Man becomes about Annatar.

The book I most intend to replace :-)

The 2026 Beyond Bree calendar still has some copies available for ordering - if you are in the USA, you might be able to get these by Christmas! Features fantastic art from the likes of Ted Nasmith, Tim Kirk, Ron Ploeg, Tom Loback, Emily Austin, Anke Eissmann, and many more. www.beyondbree.org

P-texts for volume 3 are now identified and a citation index available for each.

new video dropping later today

May you “rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill“ — Círdan

Chapter pages now exist for HoMe Volume 3. P-texts coming soon. home.digitaltolkien.com/volume/03/

If you like Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, check out projectamaze.com where some of the same team are doing textual and scientific analysis and posting "beanbags" daily...

The Text and Language Research Group, led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, has just revealed its newly designed in-house logo! Created to reflect our identity in the DH, @dhssfau.bsky.social More about the design in the description of our one-minute reveal film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol8q...