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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 13/04/2026

Red Cross worker distributes snacks and juice to volunteers who just gave blood:

JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 17/09/2025

taking immediate psychic damage by checking my phone and flooding my brain with all the terrible things going on in the world the instant my eyes open in the morning:

Pippin in pain holding the palantír and lying on the floor

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 09/09/2025

me looking through my hoodies the instant the first hint of Fall arrives:

Lucy uncovering the wardrobe that leads to Narnia

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 01/07/2025

BREAKING: Big, Beautiful Battering Ram GROND passes the Great Gate of Minas Tirith!

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 30/06/2025

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well, I gazed into the Mirror of Galadriel and I saw things that were…things that are…and some things…that have not yet come to pass.

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 26/06/2025

Read the account of this tragedy here: jrrjokien.substack.com/p/man-betray...

Man Betrayed When Now Former Friend Invited Him To Marathon of Theatrical Versions of LOTR

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 25/06/2025

Bilbo, Thorin, and the other Dwarves arriving at the Lonely Mountain looking for Smaug:

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 10/06/2025

when the worship leader goes back to the bridge again when you thought the song was done:

Frodo saying to Sam, "We've been here before. We're going in circles."

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 28/05/2025

What's a book cover (or covers) that's burned itself into your brain? Definitely these Narnia covers, but also the 1983 The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings paperback covers. They are...well, they're something else.

The 1983 paperback set of The Hobbit and LOTR

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 27/05/2025

FRODO: Where were you Gandalf? GANDALF: I was...delayed. FRODO:

K-2SO saying "I find that answer vague and unconvincing."

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 22/05/2025

Bilbo to the guests at his eleventy-first birthday party after putting on the One Ring:

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 15/05/2025

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

the various logos of HBO Max, beginning with HBO Max (2022), then Max (2023), Max (2024), Max (2025), and returning to HBO Max (2025)

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 13/05/2025

when you open a shared doc and someone else is viewing the doc at the same time:

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 08/05/2025

white smoke rises from Isengard! a new white wizard has been chosen as Gandalf succeeds the former white wizard, Saruman

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 08/05/2025

white smoke rises. a pope has been chosen this vote

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 06/05/2025

when you ask the DM a question about the campaign and all they say is "you'll have to wait and see"

Frodo saying "All right, then. Keep your secrets"

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 02/05/2025

what it feels like to "per my last email" someone:

Gandalf telling the Balrog "You shall not pass!"

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 01/05/2025

Zuck: The average American has three friends. Me and my three friends:

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 24/04/2025

me after sending precisely one (1) email:

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 11/04/2025

BILBO: Happy Friday! GANDALF: What do you mean? Do you wish me a happy Friday, or mean that it is a happy Friday whether I want it or not; or that you feel happy this Friday; or that it is a Friday to be happy on? BILBO: All of them at once, I suppose.

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 09/04/2025

WHERE WAS GONDOR WHEN THE DOW JONES FELL??

King Théoden asking Aragorn where Gondor was

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 03/04/2025

"just going to check my portfolio real qui—"

Pippin holding the palantir and screaming as the red light from the eye of Sauron blazes forth

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 18/02/2025

here you go: "Nothing but respect for MY Odysseus!"

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 11/02/2025

Boromir: one does not simply walk into Mordor Frodo and Sam:

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 17/01/2025

From today's newsletter: The Pony, the Ranger, and the Hobbit Read the rest here: 🔗 www.jrrjokien.com/p/the-pony-t...

FRODO: excuse me, that man in the corner, who is he?

A picture of Strider

THE INKEEPER, BARLIMAN BUTTERBUR: He's one of them rangers.

FRODO: Is he—quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a ranger.

BUTTERBUR: Safe? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 11/01/2025

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

Gandalf the White saying, "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth"

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 09/01/2025

New on Patreon: would you like a review copy of any of my e-books? All Patreon members (free or paid!) have an opportunity to get one or more! Details here: www.patreon.com/posts/review...