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Harold Rex Interfectus est. Charlotte and I take a look at the (very easy) Latin on the Bayeux tapestry and we wonder about whether you can see a bit of Virgil behind it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjW...

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The Bayeux Tapestry: Britain’s lost Latin masterpiece

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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 7h

Have been preparing a revision to the base text of The Hobbit we use. Only a handful of very minor changes made but we've cross-checked about 24 discrepancies in five e-books with another eight print books. Article coming on annotations.digitaltolkien.com later this week.

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Tolkien Annotations

Annotation datasets, articles, and interactive viewers from the Digital Tolkien Project.

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Clare Moore @clarelmoore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

THIS MONDAY 👇🏻

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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An incredibly moving and powerful performance of #Parsifal at @royaloperahouse.bsky.social with stellar cast including Brindley Sherratt, Stanislas DeBarbeyrac and Ekaterina Gubanova conducted powerfully by Jakub Hrusa bravi tutti 👏👏👏👏

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 03/10/2026

TOLKIEN GUIDE 20TH ANNIVERSARY 🎉💐 Join in the celebrations online on YouTube and the website where you can win things today as well 😊 Tolkienguide.com It's my pleasure and my honour to have been invited to talk about my work, the Tolkien newsletter, Roving Ranger,...

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have some fun with the Latin on the Bayeux Tapestry here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjW... It's dead easy.... and gives an extra dimension to the pics!

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The Bayeux Tapestry: Britain’s lost Latin masterpiece

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 03/10/2026

This seems to be the opportunity to do one of my "link the skeets" posts... On the TolkienGuide 20th Anniversary today, of course! 😅 bsky.app/profile/digi...

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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 03/10/2026

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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brilliant livestream yesterday celebrating the 20th Anniversary of @tolkienguide.com with a great line up of panels and talks by #Tolkien scholars congrats TolkienGuide team for putting this on. www.youtube.com/live/67yEiBy...

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TolkienGuide 20th Anniversary Livestream Party (part 2)!

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Dr Grace Khuri @gracekhuri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I will be taking part in the TolkienGuide 20th Anniversary livestream (along with fellow members of the Oxford Tolkien Network). Many wonderful Tolkien scholars will be taking part, so do have a listen tomorrow (Saturday) if you have some free time. 🙂 www.tolkienguide.com/TG20 #Tolkien

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TolkienGuide 20th Anniversary

J. R. R. Tolkien Collecting guides, forums, articles, and news. A database of Tolkien related collectibles, rare items, ephemera. A community of like-minded collectors who share ideas, trade, and st...

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why is noone talking about the LATIN of the Bayeux Tapestry. We explain why it is so interesting here on Instant Classics: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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The Bayeux Tapestry: Britain’s Lost Latin masterpiece

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tolkien based the Elves’ title “Fair Folk” on the Welsh Tylwyth Teg, “the Beautiful Kindred”. My new “slow” Lord of the Rings re-read explores Gildor’s company, myth, fairylore and Tolkien’s Welsh imagination. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🧝🏻‍♀️ Free opening; full essay for subscribers: dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/the-slow-l...

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Moriel 🏳️‍⚧️ @moriel.chaosfem.tw.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

**_Daily Elvish_** **Today's date** _Narquelië 1 (min), 2026 (enquë yuquain yuquain ), Eärenya_ Sun-fading [October] 1 (one), 2026 (six twenty twenty), Sea-day [Thursday] Today is the start of the month of _Narquelië_ , which means Sun-fading according to […] [Original post on chaosfem.tw]

Today's date in Quenya, the high elven language of J R R Tolkien, that says Narquelië min, enquë yuquain yuquain, Eärenya. It means "October one, twenty twenty six, Thursdayday" It is written in both the Roman alphabet and in the tengwar, the Elvish script.

The words túra, antúra, aritúra, túrë, antúrë, and aritúrë meaning great, greater, greatest, great (plural), greater (plural) and greatest (plural) respectively. They are written in both the Roman alphabet and in the tengwar, the Elvish script.

The letter hyarmen, the thirtythird letter of the tengwar, which is used for the letter combination HY, and later for H by itself.

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Dr Grace Khuri @gracekhuri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This kind of historical #WorldWarI research with a mythic spin was an outgrowth of my doctoral thesis project findings (relating to #Tolkien and his mythology -- the earliest version of the #Silmarillion). Tolkien worked in a mythically-minded culture, even during #WorldWarI.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 30/09/2026

Another edition of the all things Tolkien newsletter, the Roving Ranger, has just been sent to its subscribers. Any shares are highly welcome! More on the memorial; a lovely family story; new day of the week for the RR; and tons more... steady.page/en/thetolkie...

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The Two-hundred and second Roving Ranger

The Roving Ranger #202 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A few glimpses from yesterday’s visit to Benmore Botanic Garden, close to Dunoon. Autumn colours, impressive giant redwoods, a Victorian fernery and so much more. 🍂

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 27/09/2026

A little something I've been thinking about for a while and finally started working on... jtauber.github.io/asterisk/ Feedback welcome!

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Asterisk

A workbench for comparative philology.

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Dr Grace Khuri @gracekhuri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The previous joke was a Heimskringla reference, btw. Below is a rather elegant late 19th century edition (translated by Samuel Laing, 1889). Rather fine golden dragon ship too. The book is full of (often outlandish) stories about legendary and medieval Norwegian kings. #medievalsky

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Dr Grace Khuri @gracekhuri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Michael G.R. #Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien's grandson) will give his second talk for the Oxford Tolkien Network (on Oct. 30). He will be speaking about (what he told me) was his favorite of his grandfather's works: the #Silmarillion which he called an 'elegy'. tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/michae...

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Michael G. Tolkien on Eden, Fall, Exile and Beyond

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Dr Grace Khuri @gracekhuri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For a young #Tolkien one word or one name was like a firework in his developing imagination. #Silmarillion www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NH...

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Lexical Palimpsests: Old English and Old Norse Loan Words in Tolkien's Gnomish Lexicon (1917)

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I dont think younger people realize just how massively popular and culturally significant the Lord of the Rings books were in the 1970s in the USA. Millenials experienced but a fraction of this when the Peter Jackson trilogy released.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 18/09/2026

HarperCollins have provided us at @tolkienguide.com with 20 prizes for us to give away, one per hour for our 20 hour livestream celebrating 20 year anniversary for the website. Tune in whenever you feel like, and we will probably be running a random draw for something really cool!

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... On this episode of Instant Classics we talk to Daniel Mendelsohn about translating the Odyssey and having his Dad sit in on his classes!

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Classic Chats: Daniel Mendelsohn on translating the Odyssey

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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Really gripping and incredibly realistic scenario played out over four days #WarGame www.sky.com/watch/the-wa...

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wonderful #Tolkien news! Westminster Abbey has announced that J.R.R. Tolkien will be honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner. I've known about this project for some years + was privileged to be consulted during its development. Great to see it made public! www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/a...

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 21/09/2026

On 21 September 1937: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit was published. The book tells of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and his journey with thirteen dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon, Smaug. It's sold over 100 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time.

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com · 22/09/2026

Chäppi Börfdei, Frodo & Bilbo Baggins 🎂 🍰 🎉 🥳 Issue 201 of the all things Tolkien newsletter, the Roving Ranger, is out now. Any shares are most welcome! ☺️ Events, shows, scholarship, fandom, and JRRT soon in Westminster Abbey 🔜☕🍵🎉 steady.page/en/thetolkie...

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The Two-hundred and first Roving Ranger

The Roving Ranger #201 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.

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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 21/09/2026

Today is the 89th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. Here's a thread on interesting glimpses the book gave us into the legendarium Tolkien had at that stage already been working on for over twenty years but which readers at the time would have had no sense of.

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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Been really enjoying my 89th anniversary re-read of Tolkien’s The Hobbit with a re-read of Douglas A. Anderson’s excellent The Annotated Hobbit which includes the only complete version of ‘The Quest for Erebor’ A great way to explore Bilbo’s adventure with the dwarves. #tolkien #hobbit

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Graham Scheper @grahamscheper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My parents are always telling me to save up for unplanned expenses. By this I assume they mean “what if you walk into the used book store and find five new Loebs that you don’t have” Well, I didn’t save up for this, but I’m buying them anyway

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Clare Moore @clarelmoore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So excited to follow this journey, @aranelparmadil.bsky.social!

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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eglerio! Season 11 of the @prancingponypod.bsky.social has launched with a season long exploration of #Tolkien’s Beren and Luthien #tolkien podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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424 – Your Song

Podcast Episode · The Prancing Pony Podcast · 20 September · 1hr 54min

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Congratulations to Mellody & George on the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art! 18 years in the making, it is 5-stories high, filled with some of the greatest artwork, props & memorabilia you'll ever see. An instant Los Angeles LANDMARK Thanks (again), George!!!

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All you Odyssey readers who've been arguing about the meaning of polutropos in line 1, don't forget Chapman, the first English translator, puzzled about that in the 17th century -- as we reference in this episode of Instant Classics podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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How Homer’s Odyssey Conquered the English-speaking World

Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 17 September · 1hr

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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finished! this is a brilliant well researched book about Offa King of the Mercians (or perhaps the English) by @RoryNaismith with an excellent analysis of what we know about Offa especially through close analysis of charters and coins #Offa #OldEnglish #Books

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 18/09/2026

More information on our livestream celebration, including special guests, another drawing for site supporters, and scheduling, can be found here: www.tolkienguide.com/TG20

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TolkienGuide 20th Anniversary

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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 17/09/2026

This is such a good example of one of the main things we're trying to do at the Digital Tolkien Project: textual scholarship --> data --> visualization @kenhernden.bsky.social annotations.digitaltolkien.com/viewers/nazg...

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The Nazgûl, together and apart

Explore the nine riders’ paths in an interactive tube map based on Ken Hernden’s chronology. 22 September–20 October 3018.

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On Instant Classics this time, we look at what Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, William Shakespeare, Madeline Miller and more did with (and to) the Odyssey. Special guest appearance from our producer Jonty Claypole! www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0wT...

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How Homer’s Odyssey Conquered the English-speaking World

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Would we have Shakespeare (eg Tempest) without Homer's Odyssey. Well, that's too crude a question, of course. But we start to chew into it on this episode of Instant Classics. It's here to enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0wT...

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How Homer’s Odyssey Conquered the English-speaking World

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Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com · 18/09/2026

The new English edition is highly recommended.😍 www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

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