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The Wonder of Tolkien
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Swept up in the beauty, depth & wonder of Middle-earth. Joyfully sharing all things Tolkien 📚 Hopeful because of Jesus ⚡️ YouTube channel: youtube.com/@TolkienWonder
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 52m
It's a DREAM on my bucket list to one day visit England, stroll through Oxford, tramp through the countryside and read Tolkien in a pub. !!!
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 1h
The fun thing about being a huge Tolkien nerd is friends think of you and always seem to find the coolest gifts. This is a journal with Tolkien’s own painting from the Bodleian Library in Oxford where Tolkien frequented!
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 1d
These stories are worth more than their weight in gold.
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 2d
“Have you noticed how God so often sends us books at just the right time?”

- C.S. Lewis
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 3d
Just got this 1951 Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter and am so stoked to type poetry and encouraging notes on this.
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d
“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God.”

- Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 5d
C.S. Lewis on his childhood home:

“I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 5d
Just posted an article with 11 beautifully hand-drawn maps by Tolkien and his son Christopher with brief comments for each.
The Maps of Tolkien
The reason why Middle-earth felt real
www.christopherstites.com
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 5d
Looking forward to diving into this soon.
50 short chapters on Lewis' life of writing.
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 6d
My wife was just reading LOTR while wearing a Tolkien shirt and sipping tea out of a mug with Tolkien's face on it.

This is what is happening currently in my mind:
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 7d
The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 7d
love this
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 7d
Why use CGI when you can toss flaming rocks?
Pretty sure they had different safety standards back then. Got to love it.
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 8d
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Tolkien has officially been upgraded from Author of the Century to Author of the Millennium. Sources say it was inevitable.
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 9d
🚨Deleted Scene: Gandalf teaching Frodo Sindarin.

Reminder: there’s still hundreds of hours of unseen footage in a vault !!
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 9d
There will never be a greater set of movies than LOTR - not even close.
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 10d
Friends: What's your retirement plan?
Me:
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 10d
Always glad to point people to your amazing book friend!
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 10d
The Worlds of JRR Tolkien
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The Letters of JRR Tolkien
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Pity Power & Tolkien's Ring
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The Fantasy of JRR Tolkien
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Tolkien & the Great War
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 10d
Tolkien and the Great War
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 10d
The Fantasy of JRR Tolkien
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 10d
Pity Power and Tolkien's Ring
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 10d
FIVE Tolkien books you should read!
They will expand your view of Middle-earth, encourage your heart and help you learn more about Tolkien's life.

Links below to all of them 📚👇
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 10d
"Yet in the wizard’s face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth."

- Tolkien, RotK
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 11d
Tolkien and Lewis: our home aesthetic.
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