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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 10h

Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.

Including:

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The One hundred and fifty-eighth Roving Ranger

The Roving Ranger #158 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think so. If you switch “clamaverimus” with “invocaverimus” as Tom notes, he is directly quoting a line from Psalm 19 that he would have often used in various prayers

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

19:9 rather

Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Psalm 9:9 is the origin I guess, though like the first half, used in many prayers/hymns

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Ah great catch, thank you! Yes not sure why I missed the “in die,” that would have clarified things

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Ah thank you! If you find something, please let me know!

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

@alas-not-me.bsky.social @jtauber.com any idea why Tolkien would have used “clamaverimus“ here?

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Any Latinists know why Tolkien used “clamaverimus“ on his prayer card in “Deus in adiutorium nostrum intende et exaudi tua clamaverimus ad te”? 1st half is basically Ps 69. 2nd half is paraphrase of a liturgical expression but I cant think of any use of this conjugation and the meaning seems awkward

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1d

I've just posted the call for submissions for the Winter, 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. Soon I'll finish sending out notices of acceptance and rejection. Expect the Fall issue to be released before Halloween. :)
alliteration.net/call-for-submissions/ #alliterative #poetry #submissionscall

Call for Submissions: Psalms and Meditations

Submit your alliterative poems to Forgotten Ground Regained by January 1

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

New blog post: thoughts on the poems of Tolkien’s close friend, G.B. Smith
thoughtsontolkien.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/a...

A Spring Harvest

I recently read through A Spring Harvest, the posthumous poetry collection of Tolkien’s close T.C.B.S. friend, G.B. Smith, who died in the First World War. The collection is a breath of fresh air f…

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

I very much enjoyed this thought-provoking reflection from @annasmol.bsky.social on Norman Keeps, the barber in Tolkien's Notion Club Papers. annasmol.net/2025/09/26/r...

Rereading The Notion Club Papers: Sauron and the Barber

Rereading Tolkien’s The Notion Club Papers: Sauron and the Barber. Some thoughts on how evil makes inroads with decent people.

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Christopher Gilson @cgilson75.bsky.social · 10d

I will delve into what Tolkien meant by: “Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real.”

I hope you will join me for a weekend of exploring Tolkien's worlds from many points of view.

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Christopher Gilson @cgilson75.bsky.social · 10d

I am going to bea keynote speaker at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot 2025 this December 18-21. The theme of the moot is “Creating Historical Depth within Fantastical Worlds.”

theprancingponypodcast.com/moot/

My working title is:
“From Words to Worlds: Elvish Roots of Tolkien’s Mythology.”

The Prancing Pony Podcast Moot 2025 – The Prancing Pony Podcast

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to Mythlore for publishing my article, “Tolkien’s Invasion of Dragons”! You can read it here: dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 3d

The latest volume of Mythlore has been published, with a bunch of great Tolkien articles, including one by me. dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol...

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature | Vol 44 | No. 1

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for your beautiful art and reflections!

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 7d

I enjoyed this recent blog post from @miriamellis.bsky.social about what the Hobbits might have observed and learned while with the Ents: www.miriamellis.com/post/fangorn...

Fangorn's Lore: The Old Lists of the Ents

People-centric stories can be so moving, but they are only one strand of all that is going on in Middle-earth. For an expanded view of diverse life, perhaps no other section in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lo...

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 10d

Apparently my blog has hit 10,000 views. Thanks to everyone for reading and subscribing! There are more great blog posts coming later this year!

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · Feb 7

Seems like a good time for a fun thread: Tolkien Legendarium characters singing Taylor Swift songs… 1/x #TaylorSwift #Swifties

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to you both for a great review! Look forward to listening to the interview soon

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 10d

Also now available for 70% off from @princetonupress.bsky.social are @hanavideen.bsky.social's books Word Hord and Deor Hord

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 10d

@onthetrail.tolkienguide.com and myself interviewed @richove.bsky.social about the new #Tolkien book The Bovadium Fragments. You can read our review here www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

The Bovadium Fragments: TolkienGuide review

=THE BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS: a review= INTRODUCTION Earlier this year it was announced by HarperCollins that they were due to publish for the first time &qu...

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Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts.bsky.social · 10d

During the month of October @princetonupress.bsky.social has @johngarthwriter.bsky.social's excellent book "The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien" available for 70% off! If you don't have it already, this is a great opportunity.

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 24d

263 of 365 - Smith of Wootton Major #Tolkien

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 22d

265 of 365 - Happy belated 88th Birthday 🎉#Hobbit #Tolkien

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