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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m excited to be talking with the Queer Lodgings team this weekend! Hope you can join us.

Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’m excited to be joining @bookpeople.com in Austin and representing the PPP for Lord of the Rings Day on January 25! If you’re in or near Austin, I hope to see you there!

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Greater Austin Book Festival is this Saturday, April 26! Central Library branch of the Austin Public Library, 710 W. Cesar Chavez St. on Sat, April 26 from 10a-5p. FREE to enter! #GABFest2025 #greateraustinbookfest #Tolkien #atx

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

GABFest 2025 is less then 2 wks away, Sat April 26! Author meet/greets, book sales/signing, panels & more! FREE to enter! I’ll be on a panel about world building, and selling and signing copies of Why We Love Middle-earth. Hope to see you there! #GABFest2025 #greateraustinbookfest #Tolkien #atx

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Join me at GABFest 2025, all day Saturday April 26! Author meet/greets, book sales/signing, panels & more! FREE to enter! I’ll be on a panel about world building, and selling and signing copies of Why We Love Middle-earth. Hope to see you there! #GABFest2025 #greateraustinbookfest #Tolkien #atx

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 25/03/2025

Today is #TolkienReadingDay! Founded by the Society and held on the date the Ring was destroyed, Tolkien Reading Day is an opportunity to read your favourite #Tolkien passages. This year's theme is "Fellowship and Community". But what will you be reading? www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/03/toda...

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Today is Tolkien Reading Day!

Today is The Tolkien Society's international Tolkien Reading Day! The theme this year is Fellowship and Community. Share a video, or let us know what you're reading in the comments below or by using #...

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Happy #TolkienReadingDay! I had the pleasure of rejoining @prancingponypod.bsky.social for the 10th annual TRD episode, and joined a stellar lineup of readers for A Long Expected Soundscape’s TRD Special on YouTube on Sunday. What are you reading, and why?

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Looking forward to watching this! If you’re outside Europe, see further down the thread. #Tolkien

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Emily Austin @emilyaustindesign.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Everything in my shop is 20% off thru December 4, so I thought this week I’d share some of my favorite items. First up, this poster illustration of the Prancing Pony Inn, a collaboration with @shawnemarchese.bsky.social & Alan Sisto—I am very proud of it! emilyaustindesign.etsy.com/listing/1613...

Image shows a photo of my illustration of the Prancing Pony Inn as laid out in physical poster format. See next image for description of the artwork itself!

Under a deep velvety night sky, four hobbits ride up towards the Prancing Pony Inn with its famous green sign. It’s a stone building with a thatched roof and ivy climbing the walls. Golden light spills out of the windows and front door. On the hills above, the shadow of a Nazgûl is just visible overlooking the scene.

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This was my other favorite talk of the day. What a weekend it’s been! Thank you @tolkiensociety.org ! #ChristopherTolkienCentenaryConference #Tolkien

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Too many great talks today at #ChristopherTolkienCentenaryConference to mention them all! Just heard this one by James Tauber @digitaltolkien.com and I’m inspired to go on some new research adventures. #Tolkien

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Perhaps my favorite talk of #ChristopherTolkienCentenaryConference so far. It was incredible to hear how Parma Eldalamberon became the venue for Tolkien’s linguistic papers. #TolkienSociety #Tolkien

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A toast to Christopher Tolkien on what would have been his 100th birthday, for his lifelong dedication to his father‘s literary legacy and for bringing so much more Middle-earth to light for fans around the world. His importance to us fans cannot be overstated. Eglerio! Praise him with great praise!

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#TolkienTrewsday: “Christopher” In the preface to The Fall of Gondolin (2018), Christopher Tolkien wrote these words. As a tribute to him, please join me in recognizing how masterfully he achieved this “underlying purpose” and acknowledging the debt we owe him as fans of Middle-earth.

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Luke Shelton, PhD @lukebshelton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This Thursday marks the100th birthday of Christopher Tolkien (JRR’s third child, and longtime literary executor and editor). As a result, this week’s #TolkienTrewsday theme is “Christopher.” I remembered this open letter I wrote to Christopher on his 95th birthday: luke-shelton.com/2019/11/21/a...

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An Open Letter to Christopher Tolkien on His 95th Birthday

An open letter to Christopher Tolkien: Dear sir, I wanted to share something with you on this day of special magnificence, your ninety-fifth birthday. For more than a year, I have asked for fans of…

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Luke Shelton, PhD @lukebshelton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I think I have reached enough followers to start asking questions (a lot of my research is about the reception of #Tolkien’s works, so I love asking about it)! When did you first read anything by Tolkien (or watch/play/listen to an adaptation if that came first)? Reskeet for more answers!

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I can’t wait for this (absolutely free) event. The lineup of Tolkien scholars is spectacular beyond words. I hope to see you there!

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 20/11/2023

Join us for a fun and wide-ranging chat with Tom Hillman - @alas-not-me.bsky.social - author of the just released book _Pity, Power and Tolkien's Ring_. Not only do we chat about his new book, but about The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and lots of other topics. youtu.be/7s8F0706QwQ

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Tom Hillman new book - Pity, Power and Tolkien's Ring (and more!)

Join us for a fun and wide-ranging chat with Tom Hillman - author of the just released book _Pity, Power and Tolkien's Ring_. Not only do we chat about hi...

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

My new favorite passage in Tolkien’s expanded Letters, from No. 36a to Michael Tolkien, March 1, 1939. The “infernal lecture” he had not yet written would turn out to be “On Fairy-stories,” and was presented in Scotland *seven days later.*

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Had a great discussion with Joseph-Beth Books about Why We Love Middle-earth! fb.watch/nU55ajd3Rj/?...

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Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Out of the Great Sea to Bluesky I am come! In this place will I abide… but my kids will inevitably end up on TikTok.

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