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Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Laurelin 💍 (He/Him)
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🧙‍♂️ Graduate in Art History, #Tolkien fan, explorer of new places and gamer. #LOTRO. Organiser of #TolkienTrewsday. Fan of #TROP #TheRingsOfPower 💍 Runs "The Gathering Hall" community RPG space 🎲

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Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Laurelin 💍 (He/Him) @timbolton.bsky.social · Nov 17
👋 Welcome to my feed! I’m UK-based. I write about 🧙‍♂️ JRR Tolkien and I’m 💍 #TheRingsofPower friendly. I’m a proud member of the #Tolkien community and a member of @tolkiensociety.org, @mythsoc.bsky.social and other organisations/groups. I’m also a 🎮 gamer and play #LOTRO etc.
“Gandalf in the Archives of Minas Tirith” by Matthew Stewart (2014). Source: http://www.matthew-stewart.com/middle-earth#/gandalf-in-the-archives-of-minas-tirith/
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Last day waking up in London. I've been super busy, many exhibitions and other things to see - some new, some old. Lots to take in. I was alone for all of it, which needs some reflection.
First day of December, the last month of 2025, so many thoughts and feelings. 1/
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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🧙🏻‍♂️🧳 I am currently away (Londonium), but a reminder of December's themes for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

A fellowship of #Tolkien fans is requested by Lord Elrond 🧝‍♂️

Do we have your 🗡, 🏹, 🪓?
timbolton.bsky.social Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Laurelin 💍 (He/Him) @timbolton.bsky.social · 7d
🔥NEXT MONTH🔥 📢 The #TolkienTrewsday December 2025 themes:

⭕ Week 145 (02/12/25) Southern Middle-earth
⭕ Week 146 (09/12/25) Darkness/Light
⭕ Week 147 (16/12/25) Hospitality
⭕ Week 148 (23/12/25) Hope
⭕ Week 149 (30/12/25) Celestial bodies
⭕ Week 150 (06/01/26) J.R.R. Tolkien

#TolkienTuesday
December themes displayed in the Tolkien Trewsday calendar format along with a painting, “Long Winter” by R. Ward Shipman from the Lord of the Rings Customisable Card Game set “The Lidless Eye” (1997). The image shows a bleak snow-covered ridge topped with wind-curled trees. Behind is a hilly landscape and grey skies.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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A Bunch of Lord of the Rings Board Games Are Getting Limited Black Friday Discounts - IGN
A Bunch of Lord of the Rings Board Games Are Getting Limited Black Friday Discounts
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November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Sam Gamgee-coded. 🥔

#Tolkien 🧙‍♂️
A Moomin wearing a flat cap walks towards the top of a ridge whilst saying "I only want to live in peace and plant potatoes and dream!" Art by Tove Jansson.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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For #TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday’s “echoes” theme, thoughts on some unexpected but striking resonances between Nathaniel Chanticleer (in Hope Mirrlees’s Lud-in-the-Mist) and Bilbo Baggins (in Tolkien’s The Hobbit):

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November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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#ArbrediTolkien #TolkienTrewsday
Thème : ECHOS

Le duel d'énigmes entre Gollum et Bilbo, répercuté par l'ECHO de la caverne de son lac souterrain:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCv5...
Le Hobbit : Enigmes dans le noir (Riddles in the dark)
YouTube video by Bladorthin & Niphredil
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November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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#ArbrediTolkien #TolkienTrewsday
Thème : ECHOS

J'ignorais tout de Lud-en-Brume, oeuvre de Hope Mirrlees, dont le héros semble avoir servi de modèle à Bilbo...
Que c'est beau, la recherche!
Merci, @dimitrafimi.bsky.social !
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November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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“The Caves of the Misty Mountains” (watercolour, 2025)

One of seven new watercolours I created this year for an upcoming book by Legendaria Ediciones. It also fits today’s theme of “Echoes” for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
Watercolour painting showing a large cave opening in the mountains with dwarves, ponies and Bilbo (wearing a green cloak and hood) inside tending to one of the ponies. Outside, it is raining.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Tuesday

#TolkienTuesday / #TolkienTrewsday

#LibraryTuesday

#TuesdayBookBlog

#CrimeLitTuesday

Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week

Any that have been missed?

5 of 5    #TuesdayHashtags
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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@tolkiendil.bsky.social #ArbrediTolkien #TolkienTrewsday
Thème:ECHOS
«C’est une chanson,dit-il, composée dans le mode qu’on nomme ann-thennath chez les Elfes; mais il est difficile de la rendre dans notre parler commun,et ma chanson n’en était qu’un grossier écho»SdA I,11
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Tableau de Miriam Ellis présentant Aragorn dans une combe la nuit sur le versant de Montauvent chantant autour du feu aux hobbits et à Bill, le poney rachitique, le poème de la rencontre de Beren et Luthien. La fumée du feu évoque leurs silhouettes.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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@tolkiendil.bsky.social #ArbrediTolkien #TolkienTrewsday
Thème: ECHOS
Boromir marmonna entre ses dents, mais le son de sa voix, amplifié par les échos de la pierre, fut comme un souffle rauque que tous purent entendre : « Dans les profondeurs du monde ! »SdA, II,4
Image du dessin animé "Le Seigneur des Anneaux" de Ralph Bakshi représentant un labyrinthe d'escaliers descendants.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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@tolkiendil.bsky.social #ArbrediTolkien #TolkienTrewsday
Thème : ECHOS
"Pris d’une impulsion soudaine, il (Pippin) tâtonna à la recherche d’un morceau de pierre et le laissa tomber. Ilsentit son coeur battre de nombreuses fois avant qu’un son se fasse entendre. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyDM...
Fool of a Took | Just a stone in Moria | Nostalgic animation / LOTR Cartoon
YouTube video by Kjell Axel Östman inc.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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@tolkiendil.bsky.social #ArbrediTolkien #TolkienTrewsday

Thème : ECHOS

"Frodo et Sam n’avaient pas connu pareilles ténèbres depuis les sombres galeries de la Moria ; et elles étaient ici plus profondes et plus denses, si la chose était possible. ⬇️
Justin Gerard: Frodo, Sam et Gollum à l'entrée de l'antre d'Araigne dont les parois sont recouvertes de toiles d'araignées.
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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The Goblin cave drawings and Goblin alphabet that Tolkien created for one of his Father Christmas's letters for his children.

Both were drawn in 1932 when he was working on "The Hobbit", and some of the creatures from that manuscript bled to his Christmas letters.

#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
An image of cave drawings on a paper, drawn with red and black ink. It depicts several large prehistoric mammals like mammoths, bears, elks, rhinos, and horses, surrounded by smaller black figures in various poses, such as riding a four-legged creature, carrying a spear and stick, holding hands, and such. There are also several smaller animals like canines, birds, and buffalos. An ink drawing of rows of picture-based alphabet system resembling black stick figures in various poses.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🗡🛡 #Osprey #RPG #RomanceofthePerilousLand Hoping to spend some of the end of the year completing the "Romancing the Perilous Land zine #001: Maps of the Perilous Land" but an additional project is to update handdrawn& enhanced in PS with new digital maps in @inkarnate.com. @voxparlour.bsky.social
Map of the 11 Kingdoms of the Perilous Land from Scott Malthouse's "Romance of the Perilous Land". This map was created in Photoshop - Land is green, sea is blue. The kingdom of Camelot map from Romance of the Perilous Land. A large area of the south-west of the map is the Wytchwood. East of Camelot lies the Forest of Liande and the Loe. The Mountains of Algaard form a border on the east. Basic map of the Perilous Land started in Inkarnate. The Mountains of Algaard are layed down.
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#ArbrediTolkien #TolkienTrewsday
Thème: PERES ET FILS

Merci à @molluskshell.bsky.social de rappeler que les liens père-fils les plus sincères se jouent de la généalogie!
😍😍😍
molluskshell.bsky.social Derek Barrantes @molluskshell.bsky.social · 13d
#TolkienTrewsday Week 143: Fathers and Sons

Even though they’re cousins and Frodo calls him “uncle,” I always liked seeing Bilbo as Frodo’s adoptive father.

He loved and cared for him, and even helped prepare him for his grand quest.

(This illustration was originally for Hobbit Day 2024.)
A colored illustration of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins celebrating their birthday. The two have their arms linked. Bilbo has a wide smile while Frodo looks at him with fondness. The medium of this illustration is pencils, inks, and copics on paper.
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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#TolkienTuesday
lady-of-the-light.bsky.social Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 7d
Colors: The autumnal forest is awash with life. Galadriel feels keenly every note of it, Nenya humming along with every breath. In the ground she plants a tree, a gift from the waves. Green and silver leaves wreath the sapling, but many shift into gold. They are bright the colors, filled with hope.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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"Suddenly they lifted up their voices in a song of triumph & his heart was shaken with fear and he fell upon his face & they passed over him and went away into the echoing hills." The Elven Warriors from Smith of Wootton major. Echoes for #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien @timbolton.bsky.social
Elven Warriors by Pauline Baynes from Smith of Wootton Major
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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🧙‍♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 144 (25/11/25): “Echoes”

Theme suggested by @bladorthin.bsky.social – echoes from underground places (Moria, Gollum’s cave) & echoes across the ages + words having relevance later in chapters.

#TolkienTuesday
Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2025/02/tolkien-trewsday-year-three.html
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🥾🏹 Our little @tolkiensociety.org Smial, The Rangers of the North, is hosting another moot in Preston on Saturday 6th December 2025. We have an event signup on our FB group (www.facebook.com/groups/70772...) and also in our Discord server (details on FB group).

🧙‍♂️ #Tolkien #Preston #Smial
Poster for the next Rangers of the North (Tolkien Society) Smial in Preston. Poster has the following text: "Gondor calls for aid... will Rohan answer? Join fellow Tolkien fans at the Rangers of the North Smial monthly social moot." The poster image is of the entrance of Miller Arcade in Preston, with a photo edited in a stylised brown/white sketch filter (in Photoshop) - the arcade has a banner for a Rohan shop, this part colourised. At the bottom of the poster is a banner which gives the moot details: "Sat 6th December 2025 @ 12pm" and "A Yuletide moot at the Grey Friar Preston" with address and URL for the Rangers FB group. A decorative holly finishes off the banner's look alongside a green Hobbit door with the runes for "Burglar, Danger & Treasure" - the same as those etched onto Bilbo's door in the Hobbit for the Dwarven company to find his house.
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Thank you all for the contributions to #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday this week, your support and love for #Tolkien is much appreciated!

Coming next Tuesday…
Picture of Waldreg from The Rings of Power with the following text: #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday "Had a bit of a thrill in here, Trewsday last."
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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La Terre du Milieu a tant de cimes et d'abysses qu'elle est le réceptacle de l'ECHO!
Voilà pourquoi l' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) vous propose d'écouter les répercussions d'une onde sonore dans son oeuvre:
😱citations sur l'écho (Moria, Emyn Muil etc) ⤵️
La grande jaquette dessinée par Tolkien pour le HObbit, montrant la forêt et les montagnes.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Dark Horse & Middle Earth Enterprises are pleased to introduce the Bilbo Baggins & Gollum Figures based on the animated special #TheHobbit.

Each standing at 6" tall with swappable arms, add these classic figures to your collection! https://bit.ly/3JWypPQ

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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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@folkloresociety.bsky.social, do you think we'll ever see another edition of Jacqueline Simpson and Jennifer Westwood's "The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys"? I just saw a blog post recommending it but found it's out of print 😢
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM