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

The Lord of the Rings 60th anniversary boxed set, The one volume Lord of the Rings illustrated by the Author edition, Unfinished tales special edition, The Letters of JRR Tolkien 2nd edition, Myths and Legends Boxed Set 2, and (not shown) The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien.

The last five Tolkien book prizes laid out on a table. The Lord of the Rings 60th anniversary boxed set, The one volume Lord of the Rings illustrated by the Author edition, Unfinished tales special edition, The Letters of JRR Tolkien 2nd edition, Myths and Legends Boxed Set 2, and (not shown) The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien.

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

Two sets of the deluxe Great Tales of Middle-earth, The Hobbit Deluxe, The Silmarillion Deluxe illustrated by the Author, and The Fall of Númenor deluxe.

Five deluxe slipcased Tolkien editions laid out - two sets of the deluxe Great Tales of Middle-earth, The Hobbit Deluxe, The Silmarillion Deluxe illustrated by the Author, and The Fall of Númenor deluxe.

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

The facsimile 1st Hobbit, The Annotated Hobbit, The Hobbit Sketchbook, The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook, and The Bovadium Fragments.

Five more Tolkien books laid out on a table showing their covers, in front of other prize books. Shown are the facsimile 1st Hobbit, The Annotated Hobbit, The Hobbit Sketchbook, The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook, and The Bovadium Fragments.

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

The forthcoming Tove Jansson Hobbit is awesome of course! Also The Art of the Hobbit, The Maps of Middle-earth, Doomed To Die, and Pictures by JRR Tolkien.

The covers of five books laid out in front of the prize pool - The Art of the Hobbit, The Tove Jansson Hobbit being published later this month, The Maps of Middle-earth, Doomed To Die, and Pictures by JRR Tolkien

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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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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 15/09/2026

Happy Silmarillion publishing birthday, 49 years ago today. Which means next year will be the 50th anniversary. Maybe we should celebrate that too! Pre-order your 2027 Beyond Bree Silmarillion Calendar today. beyondbree.org Featuring "Ancalagon the Black" by @khorazir.bsky.social

Draft cover image for the 2027 Beyond Bree Silmarillion Calendar, featuring Anke Eissmann's "Ancalagon the Black" new artwork, showing a massive black dragon breathing fire towards a white swan-shaped ship sailing the air, surrounded by birds.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 23/08/2026

I looked up the review in Amon Hen 35 (p. 12). According to that, the "Publishers said that the copyright did not stretch to stage productions and that all they could do was a reading" so yours still counts as the first stage production!

.... Congratulations to Neil Koenig and the Bristol Revunions for their production of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son as a dramatised reading, a Fringe event at the Edinburgh Festival. When we went to this performance, two actors dressed in brown cloaks with hoods read from scripts the parts of Torhthelm and Tidwald searching for Beorhtnoth on the battle field and carrying the body back for burial.
Afterwards we talked to Nell, the producer, and the two actors who had taken the parts that day, Robin Burch (Torhthelm) and Alan Colhoun (Tidwald). Robin is a student at the Old Vic School, Bristol, and Neil and Alan are both In the Drama Dept, at Bristol University. Neil, a Tolkien enthusiast, had been wanting to do Beorhtnoth for years. His original idea had been to produce it as a play, but unfortunately the Publishers said that the copyright did not stretch to stage productions and that all they could do was a reading. For this reason he had modified his plans to a reading with such props and sound effects as were in the spirit of a reading. Therefore we heard an owl hooting, footsteps and a scuffle, and the monks singing a requiem at the end, as non-inclusion of these would have made the references to them in the poem sound a bit silly; but there were no dead bodies strewn over the stage, or a cart for the body as they would have liked, and above a ll, no acting.
All three agreed that it had been a valuable experience and they had enjoyed overcoming the various difficulties involved, e .g . bringing the taped sound effects in at the right time, finding a requiem of roughly the right period, and simply fitting in the necessary rehearsal time. Neil said it would work better as a completely audio production (he had heard of the Radio 3 tape), being a presentation of points of view rather than a plot. He also thought it would make a good film, and would love to produce such a film himself....

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 23/08/2026

I have a program book from 1978 where Homecoming was performed with the permission of George Allen & Unwin. Missed that one, don’t want to miss this one!

Program book for Bristol Revunions 1978 page for - The
Homecoming
of Beorhtnoth,
Beorhthelm's Son
by j.r.r. tolkien
Aug. 21-Sep. 9 (excl. Aug. 29 and Sep. 5). 12.30 p.m. £0.50p.
The Battle of Maldon is one of the great Anglo-Saxon narrative poems-it recounts the events of 991, when the English, led by Beorhtnoth, Duke of Essex, having trapped the numerically superior Viking raiders, allowed them to cross a causeway to join battle. This act of courage led to the massacre of the English. Traditionally, the critics have taken the poem to celebrate the heroism of Beorhtnoth and his followers.
J.R.R. Tolkien saw the poem rather differently, as his sequel to it, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorh thelm's Son shows. The Anglo-Saxon word for the heroic spirit is 'ofermod'-Tolkien points out in an essay of the same name attached to the play that this can as easily mean overweening pride or hubris. This fact is brought out in Homecoming in the dialogue between the two retainers of Beorhtnoth, sent out by the monks of Ely after the battle to recover their master's body. In marvellously alliterative verse, Tolkien presents us first with the simple heroic view, represented for us by Torthelm, the young minstrel, best summed up in the famous lines taken from Maldon itself:-
"Will shall be the stemer, heart the bolder, Spirit the greater as our strength lessens. "
But Torthelm's companion, old Tidwald, takes the view that Beorhtnoth was "needlessly noble" , and in his matter of fact fashion,
brings home to us the cruel realities and devastation of war, an ever-present theme in Tolkien's work.
This production is presented by kind permission of George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd. For cast please see separate sheet.
Director: Neil Koenig

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 15/07/2026

I also love Elyanna Choi’s “The Nine Walkers” featured for August in the 2021 Beyond Bree calendar. 🤩 www.tolkienguide.com/guide/calend...

The nine members of the Fellowship pose for a photo op. The various characters looks and outfits span cultures and peoples from around our world.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 04/07/2026

RULES FOR MY BLUESKY ACCOUNT NUMBER ONE

A cartoon tiger holding a sign, from a zoo in China. The English translation printed on the sign says “Be carefully slippery!”

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 29/06/2026

Some lovely merch I bought from @mgcoco.bsky.social when we met at Westmoot last month. Highly recommended! 😁

Postcard, art print, stickers and bookmark that are Tolkien inspired.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 19/06/2026

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 07/04/2026

Looks like my fav 90’s ska band #Artemis2 has released their reunion album!

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 01/04/2026

Let me know if you need more!

The "Meaning" of Leaf by Niggle
Bertrand Alliot p 165

The Autobiographical Tolkien
Heidi Steimel p. 191

Leaf by Tolkien? Allegory and Biography in Tolkien's Literary Theory and Practice Fabian Geier p 209

Redefining the Romantic Hero: a Reading of Smith of Wootton Major in the Light of Ludwig Tieck's
Der Runenberg
Martin Simonson p 233

Smith of Wootton Major, "The Sea-Bell" and Lothlórien: Tolkien and the Perils of Faërie
Maria Raffaella Benvenuto p 251

A Star Above the Mast: Tolkien, Faërie and the Great Escape
Anna E. Slack p 263

Journeys in the Dark
Margaret Hiley p 279

Smith of Wootton Major Considered as a Religious Text
Martin Sternberg p 293

Metaphysics of Myth: The Platonic Ontology of
"Mythopoeia"
Frank Weinreich p 325

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 15/03/2026

search your camera roll for hell

Comic strip in your panels. An ant is lifted off the ground, and yells “oh my gosh, the rapture is happening! enjoy hell, losers!”

The view zooms out and we see a bored person running the vacuum.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 03/03/2026

Sorry for the immensely crappy phone camera. Nice moon though

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 27/02/2026

Looks to be a difference in metadata (category)

1. Pokémon
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3. Pokémon
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4. Letterboxd
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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 22/02/2026

The 1957 enquiry to Tolkien about LOTR film rights came from Al Brodax - who would go on to be the producer for the Beatles film Yellow Submarine a decade later, after a long career in animated film and TV works. I wonder what we would have gotten if Al had gotten those rights?

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 01/02/2026

The sketch under the calendar grid for the month is "Éowyn and Faramir on the City Wall" by Christine Lowentrout, also from the 1985 Beyond Bree calendar.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 01/02/2026

It's time to show the February art from the 2026 Beyond Bree calendar! The main piece is titled "Boromir Ndangen" ("Boromir Slain"), by Patrick Wynne - from the first BB calendar in 1985. Pat is well known in Tolkien circles as one of the editors of Parma Eldalamberon. Order at beyondbree.org

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 28/01/2026

Loved the infrastructure. Also the view

• Has view: Yes
• View description: Water
• Has water view: Yes
• Water view: Water

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 25/01/2026

Reminds me of the BnF library in Paris having custom patron cards (furthest on right) during the Tolkien exhibition 😁

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 21/01/2026

And the answer is..... All are true! I was doing some research on one of the first Tolkien related fanzines and a few hints and cross references exposed me to a newszine titled Skyrack, whose editor liked Tolkien and reported some news tidbits in various issues. 1/🧵

Cover headline for Skyrack #20, 20th June 1960, showing two line-drawn gentlemen with suits, propellor beanies and confused looks on their faces.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 16/01/2026

Those three were part of a set made especially for the Bodleian Maker of Middle-earth exhibition! Sorry for the glare, my set is still in plastic.

Tolkien Maker of Middle-earth button badge set of four. Smaug, Raft-elves, dustjacket and Rivendell art as small rounded corner square metal pinback badges.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 15/01/2026

Video proving the app (when not logged in at all!) is actively listening on the mic and sending significant traffic on the network

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 15/01/2026

Hey @discord.com why is the iPhone app actively listening on my microphone whenever the app is open? I am not on any voice channels. As soon as I background the app it stops using the mic. Voice is set to “push to talk” only

iPhone control center shows that the discord app is listening on my microphone

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 14/01/2026

Another fun beanbag! Also a minor mobile layout issue - the ** are off the screen by default (had to zoom out to find them)

Screenshot of the website showing layout issue

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 04/01/2026

I agree! Also appears that Aragorn has an opinion, now that I look closely at his finger 😉

Aragorn looks skeptically at something off to your left

Aragorn is giving someone the middle finger, subtly, while holding an anachronistically bound book

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 01/01/2026

Each month of the Beyond Bree calendar also features a secondary piece along with the grid. January 2026 features "Thief!" by George Dunn, previously appearing in the 1994 calendar and the July 2001 issue of Beyond Bree. 4/4

A stylized pencil sketch of a rocky cave, with Gollum visible shaking his fist and calling out something in anger.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 01/01/2026

The art for January 2026 is "Before the rising of the sun Eärendil slew Ancalagon the Black", by Nancy Martsch. Nancy started the Beyond Bree newsletter in 1981, and has been publishing it monthly since then without fail. This piece previously appeared in the 2020 and 1988 calendars. 3/4

A swan shaped boat is flying through the air with stormclouds in the background. A huge black dragon is wrapped around it and breathing fire, which has set the mainsail aflame. A small figure stands on the ship, in shining white armor and holding a spear and a shield. Small dragons and eagles can be seen in the distance.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 01/01/2026

The cover features brand new art from Ruth Lacon, made specially for this calendar. If you look closely you can find Niggle, the Inklings, a Hobbit drinking a pint, Barliman Butterbur, a Ringwraith, Gandalf in the archives, Nancy working on a Beyond Bree issue, Tom Bombadil, Strider and more! 2/4

Detail shot of Ruth Lacon's "Beyond" artwork, showing Niggle, an Inklings meeting, a Hobbit, Barliman Butterbur, and a Ringwraith

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 01/01/2026

Each month I am going to share with you a bit about the art in the Beyond Bree 2026 Calendar, as I am very proud of it, and the artists who are featured. For January, I will also talk about the fantastic cover art. This calendar is still available for ordering from beyondbree.org 1/4 🧵

Cover of the 2026 Beyond Bree Calendar, on a dark red background with white text. The image says "Beyond Bree" in a medieval tapestry style, with lots of scrollwork and small characters featured throughout.

January 2026 Beyond Bree calendar main art - "Before the rising of the sun Eärendil slew Ancalagon the Black" by Nancy Martsch

Grid sketch art for January 2026 Beyond Bree Calendar - "Thief!" by George Dunn

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 18/12/2025

How about Sam and Gollum salt and pepper shakers?

A sad looking crouching gollum with his hands over his ears, and Samwise cuddling with s tree stump. I have no idea where the salt and pepper comes out

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 16/12/2025

The 2026 Beyond Bree calendar still has some copies available for ordering - if you are in the USA, you might be able to get these by Christmas! Features fantastic art from the likes of Ted Nasmith, Tim Kirk, Ron Ploeg, Tom Loback, Emily Austin, Anke Eissmann, and many more. www.beyondbree.org

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 07/12/2025

If you don’t search for something explicitly, or subscribe to a channel, you aren’t shown anything at all. No recommendations etc. this is my YouTube home screen for example.

You tube homepage screenshot that just says “YouTube
Search YouTube
Your watch history is off
You can change your setting at any time to get the latest videos tailored to you. Learn more
Update setting”

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 30/11/2025

Put together this puzzle from @serenamalyon.bsky.social art “The Elven City” this weekend. Really challenging but a lot of fun!

1000 piece puzzle of The Elven City by artist Serena Malyon. Lots of subtle blue tones showing Lothlorien at night.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 15/10/2025

The 2026 Beyond Bree Calendar is at the printer and will be shipping soon. Quite proud of this "best of" calendar with art from tons of awesome artists from 45(!) years of Beyond Bree newsletters and prior calendars. Get yours today! www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

"Beyond Bree" text in illustrated manuscript layout with lots of little scenes and vignettes wrapped around the letters and floral decorations. Blue text with mainly glod, blue and red detail work.

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 07/10/2025

There’s Ted and Alan of course, but here’s one by Barthelemy Aupetit that I really like www.artstation.com/artwork/3qJ2LD

Gondolin by Barthelemy Aupetit. Panoramic view from below the city showing towers and walls above waterfalls, with snow capped mountains in the distance

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Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com · 20/09/2025

Minor FYI -The template doesn’t handle wide tables very well yet on mobile

Screenshot of the linked page, with the last column of the table hanging off the right edge of the screen

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