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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Plenty of "Bows" and arrows on display if you zoom in on Joan Wyatt's painting of The Balrog. His face reminds me of one of thos Chinese Dragons used in street celebrations. #LOTR #Tolkien #TolkienTrewsday @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not sure Mrs W would approve but I quite fancy reclining on an Arwen @thetolkienist.com #LOTR #Tolkien

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aqcuired another poster. Had never seen this before. 1974 Hobbit art by Rob Brown and Ken Sanders. Pen and ink drawing. Created using cross hatching. I think that's the term, maybe somebody artistic will know the correct term @joelmerriner.bsky.social #Tolkien #TheHobbit

1974 Hobbit poster by Rob Brown & Ken Sanders

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Journey's End. Sam Says Farewell by Joan Wyatt. Find this painting really captures the mood of the moment. #Tolkien #TolkienTrewsday @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Journey's End by Tudor Mint. Here's Bilbo writing There and Back Again in front of his fireplace. If you look closely you can see Sting and his Mithril shirt on the table #Tolkien #TolkienTrewsday #TheHobbit @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"I am in fact a Hobbit" Various depictions of Gollum on film. From the #RalphBakshi #LOTR, Soviet #TheHobbit, Rankin Bass Hobbit & #PeterJackson Lord of the Rings @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Amongst other film stars, I met 2 Frodos today #Tolkien #LOTR

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tolkien in Oxford was a #BBC documentary first aired in 1968. Still avaialable on the BBC archive and well worth a watch. His hat reminds me of Sam's "he had put on his head a tall shapeless felt bag, which he called a hat" "Dreaming Spires" #TolkienTrewsday @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For 40+ years I've been a fan of the books, audio adaptations, films, art, merchanise, games ............. #Tolkien #LOTR #TheHobbit #TolkienTrewsday "Tolkien's Fans" @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"All dead, all rotten. Elves and Men and Orcs. The Dead Marshes" #LOTR Tolkien wrote in letter 226 "Dead Marshes owed something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme" Joan Wyatt's eerie painting of The Dead Marshes #TolkienTrewsday Death #Tolkien @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dear Lobelia, having a terrific time in the Goblin caves. Wish you were here! You need to send postcards when you going on a Hobbit's holiday, There and Back Again #Tolkien #TheHobbit #LOTR

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"But the Silmarils in the crown on Morgoth's head blasted forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame" Always found this image of Morgoth quite disconcerting Great bit of art of Luthien as Thuringwethil before Morgoth by Lidia Postma @timbolton.bsky.social #TolkienTrewsday #Silmarillion #Tolkien

Luthien before Morgoth art by Lidia Postma

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hadn't realised til today that he was the brother of Ambrose Coghill who starred in my favourite M R James adaptation Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You alongside Michael Hordern who of course played Gandalf in the BBC radio adaptation

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Recent charity shop purchase. Luthien pin badge

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Possibly my favourite White Dwarf cover & maybe my favourite image of Orcs. Here we have Saruman's Orcs bearing the symbol of the White Hand, probably at Helm's Deep. Art by Angus Fieldhouse. Heraldry & Symbols for #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien #LOTR @timbolton.bsky.social

White Dwarf cover art by Angus Fieldhouse

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Youngest started her final year at school before heading to uni this week. Didn't get taught #TheHobbit at school but did anyone get these editions in class? I borrowed the brown 1979 edition from the school library repeatedly #Tolkien #FeelingOld

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Have the calendar and the jigsaw

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We should bear that in mind. A Grizzly episode in Numenorean history

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Way of the Wild for #TolkienTrewsday Top experts in ways of the wild, The Rangers, are having a lovely sight seeing trip through the mountains with some spooky pals. Paths of the Dead by Joan Wyatt from A Middle-earth Album #Tolkien #LOTR @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Picked up this for a couple of quid and currently listening on the old turntable. Music of Middle-earth by Enzio Kosta. Never heard of it before. Cover is #PaulineBaynes Middle-earth map #LOTR #Tolkien

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Plenty of Hidden Realms to be found in this #TheHobbit postcard sent from Sweden. Even a little Gollum hidden away in his cave. Illustration by Hans Arnold, a children's book illustrator. Wonder if Mrs Evans or the sender was a #Tolkien fan? #TolkienTrewsday

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Picked up a couple of cheap bits of original #Tolkien art. Following Glorfindel & Leaving Rivendell by Eleanor Clayforth. Not familiar with the artist but quite like the style. Think they are pen & ink @joelmerriner.bsky.social ? Frames need a bit of tlc #LOTR

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror welled up in Bilbo's heart" Riddles in the Dark from #TheHobbit serialised in Princess and Girl magazine illustrated by Ferguson Dewar #Tolkien Pity #TolkienTrewsday @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Tonight's bedtime listening. First time audio of a favourite #Tolkien book of mine. #UnfinishedTales read by Timothy and Samuel West

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Been collecting Rawcliffe #LOTR #TheHobbit figures for quite a few years now and finally got hold of The Vengence of Smaug. Here he is eyeing up Ruth Lacon's Lake Town with hiw jewelled eyes #Tolkien

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"They built a great watch-tower on Weathertop, Amon Sûl they called it. It was burned and broken, and nothing remains of it now but a tumbled ring, like a rough crown on the old hill's head" #LOTR #Tolkien #TolkienTrewsday The Tower and the Ruin. Jef Murray art @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My largest copy of Lord of The Rings. French edition by Famot with images from the #RalphBakshi movie in the centre pages amd love the small end of chapter images. John Howe #LOTR to give an idea of size #Tolkien

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A dance off you say? We have our own song

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Nahar maybe "Nahar and his master" by Catherine Chmiel

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The ponies in The Hobbit don't have much luck. Eaten by Goblins or some of them eaten by Smaug. Wonder if #Tolkien felt bad & gave Bill a large portion of luck? Horses for #TolkienTrewsday Art from animated film book & comic strip adaptation of #TheHobbit @timbolton.bsky.social

Art from comic trip adaptation of The Hobbit by Wenzel/Dixon

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Grishnákh and Uglúk at No1 in the charts? 2 singles from @ralphbakshi.bsky.social #LOTR. The main theme & B side on one is Following the Orcs. Love Howard Shore's music but a big fan of Leonard Rosenman's score for the animated film, Wonder if the 2 Orcs realeased a video for the single? #Tolkien

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Only own a few bits of original #Tolkien art. Here's Leslie Charlotte Benenson's Balrog. Known primarily as a sculptor, she did a number of scraperboard #LOTR pieces

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Now I go to Pelargir upon Anduin" I do, every time I head to bed as this is at the top of the stairs. The main harbour of Gondor, the city was built in S.A. 2350 "The Shire" Middle-earth panorama by #RogerGarland City for #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien #LOTR @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Happy Birthday to #RodneyMatthews 81 today & still painting. Have a number of posters/jigsaws of his #Tolkien art & last week ordered some of his old stock of greetings/postcards

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Most people are probably familiar with the Chris Achilleos "Host of Chaos" art which was both poster & cover for Games Workshop MERP edition. Probably less well known is "No Prisoners" which was art for 1991 Riders of Rohan PC game. Here's a postcard @joelmerriner.bsky.social #Tolkien #LOTR

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Leaf by Niggle is possibly my favourite non Middle-Earth Tolkien story. It's either that or Smith of Wooton Major. Anyway, Trinity Forum edition arrived this week. Like it #Tolkien #LeafbyNiggle

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Farewell good thief He said I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed Since I leave now all gold & silver, and go where it is of little worth I wish to part in friendship from you & I would take back my words & deeds at the Gate #TolkienTrewday Forgiveness

Michael Hague's illustration from the 1984 The Hobbit

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🎵Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, oh I do like to be beside the sea .......🎵 Except when I keep getting that recurring dream about a giant wave. #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien

Tolkien at Bournebouth by Lord Snowdon I believe

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Oi Tuor. I've left armour for you in that abandonned place. Now follow this guy I've washed up on the beach to a secret fancy city & tell the Elven King there to abandon it or they're all going to die Oh and while you're there marry his daughter. Sounds fishy but ok #TolkienTrewsday The Sea #Tolkien

Ulmo Lord of Waters by Roger Garland. My 1984 Calendar

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A Scottish opera singer born in Turrif Aberdeenshire 1945 Trained at Royal Academy of Music & sang as a soloist with Scottish Opera & frequently appeared in the productions of the Royal Opera. Elvin & Swann performed at Tolkien's Golden Wedding Anniversary Celebration at Merton College 23rd Mar 1966

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Japanese movie program for #RalphBakshi Lord of the Rings and a ticket with #MikePloog Nazgûl art. There's a Galadriel and Frodo stamp on the 1st page. Would love to see this on the big screen at some point #Tolkien #LOTR

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#TolkienTrewsday "Companions" This piece is called Faithful Companion - Sam fire starting. Produced by Clarecraft & based on the art of #PeterPracownik these all have names like My Precious, Ringbearer etc to avoid copyright. 6 in total but haven't managed to find Legolas yet @timbolton.bsky.social

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The deadliest weapon in the world is a Hobbit and his ring #Tolkien

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I often think of unanswered #Tolkien questions when reading & last night it was I wonder if Beorn's wife knew he was a skin changer before marrying him & when did her baby Grimbeorn begin the change? If not I'm guessing marriage may have been a bit of a shock to her Beorn by #MichaelHague #TheHobbit

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