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• Gateway
  June 25th, 3:36am UTC at Portfolio

• Throne
  June 25th, 3:36am UTC at Portfolio

• Stone of Knowledge
  June 23rd, 8:27pm UTC at Portfolio

• Today in Middle-earth, June 22
  June 22nd, 6:00am UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by grammaboodawg

• Was Galadriel Married to Celebrimbor?
  June 20th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• Some News and Rumors about Amazon’s LoTROnPrime Project
  June 18th, 3:19am UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• What Was Beregond’s Fate?
  June 13th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• Convolution
  June 13th, 5:34am UTC at Portfolio

• Could Saruman Have Reincarnated Himself the Way Sauron Did?
  June 10th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• 2019.05 - STORMY WEATHER: Storm
  May 31st, 7:34pm UTC at Portfolio

• Where Can You Learn about the History of Arda?
  May 30th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• The Great Hall of Poets
  May 30th, 10:18am UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by Kelvarhin

• 2019.05 - STORMY WEATHER: Wandering in the Storm
  May 30th, 9:06am UTC at Portfolio

• Today in Middle-earth, May 30
  May 30th, 6:00am UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by grammaboodawg

• 2019.05 - STORMY WEATHER: Coming Storm
  May 29th, 1:38pm UTC at Portfolio

• 2019.05 - STORMY WEATHER: Approaching storm
  May 28th, 4:15am UTC at Portfolio

• 2019.05 - STORMY WEATHER: Storm at Sea
  May 28th, 4:15am UTC at Portfolio

• Was the Seat On Amon Hen Inherently Magical?
  May 20th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• Newsweek’s Special Edition: J.R.R. Tolkien – The Genius Behind Middle-earth
  May 19th, 3:58pm UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by grammaboodawg

• Did Amandil Ever Reach Valinor?
  May 16th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• Was J.R.R. Tolkien Wrong about the Meaning of Nasc?
  May 13th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• Impressions From A Casual Ringer: ‘Tolkien’ Movie Reignites Childhood Magic
  May 11th, 2:14am UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by Cliff Quickbeam Broadway

• Review: ‘Tolkien’ film both rewarding and frustrating
  May 10th, 10:37am UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by MrCere

• Richard Taylor and Weta Workshop send TORn some 20th anniversary love
  May 9th, 2:29pm UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by greendragon

• A Bitter Tolkien Fan’s take on ‘Tolkien’
  May 9th, 2:02am UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by Calisuri

• TORn’s second breakfast with Dome Karukoski, director of TOLKIEN
  May 7th, 4:31pm UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by greendragon

• Tolkien movie opening Friday, let’s MeetUp
  May 5th, 7:43am UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by Garfeimao

• 2019.04 - FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: Fire on the Mountain
  May 3rd, 6:34pm UTC at Portfolio

• 1st Film Review: TOLKIEN a Gorgeous Blend of Language, Love, Loss
  May 3rd, 4:06am UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by Cliff Quickbeam Broadway

• First Fan Reactions to TOLKIEN Movie!
  May 1st, 10:42pm UTC at TheOneRing.Net News by Cliff Quickbeam Broadway

• How Does Death Work in Middle-earth?
  April 25th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• Tolkien Fans Gathering for Meetups Week of May 10, 2019
  April 22nd, 1:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Xenite.Org Administrator

• Who were the Druedain, Haradrim, and Easterlings?
  April 22nd, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• What Color was Gollum?
  April 11th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• Will Amazon Create a New Canonical History for Middle-earth?
  April 8th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• Where did the Uruk-hai live prior to the War of the Ring?
  March 28th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• What Could Gil-galad and Elendil Have Done If They Captured Sauron?
  March 25th, 12:30pm UTC at Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez

• This is Happening
  March 1st, 1:41pm UTC at Scriptorius Rex by Jeff Draper

• Why I Wrote "Blue Moon of Cthulhu"
  March 20th, 8:43am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "Parables Before Jesus"
  January 26th, 9:12am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "Stand At The Crossroads"
  January 19th, 8:32am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Lectures on Tolkien and Rowling
  December 18th, 4:16am UTC at Tolkien Studies Blog by Michael Martinez

• Why I Wrote "A Song Of The One"
  June 14th, 7:55am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "The Last Days Of The Kingdom Of Judah"
  June 6th, 7:05am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "Between Two Fires"
  May 31st, 1:14pm UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Little-known Lewis letters
  May 28th, 1:21pm UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• Why I Wrote "The Drowning Land: An Atlantean Alphabet"
  May 10th, 8:01am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "Mars Hill: Paul V. The Philosophers"
  April 10th, 8:30am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "Hopewell Dreamquest"
  March 30th, 8:26am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "Assassin Of Acheron And Other Stories"
  March 9th, 7:10am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "Madness Of The Glyphs"
  March 2nd, 7:58am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Why I Wrote "Happiness In The Psalms"
  January 20th, 10:02am UTC at Alfred D. Byrd's Blog by Alfred D. Byrd

• Watch Middle-earth Talk Episode 52 from Tolkien Moot XII
  July 28th, 5:03am UTC at Tolkien Studies Blog by Michael Martinez

• Decennial conference
  March 24th, 12:37pm UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• Tolkien Studies Volume 12
  December 29th, 11:55am UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• A new review of my book — from a surprising reviewer!
  November 4th, 7:16pm UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• Scattered leaves
  October 21st, 4:53pm UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• Art: Celegorm & Huan
  October 1st, 7:44am UTC at The Silmarillion by Alassë

• Art: Nienna & Irmo
  September 9th, 3:56am UTC at The Silmarillion by Alassë

• A standalone edition of The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun — in Serbian!
  August 31st, 6:49pm UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• Art: Morwen & Túrin
  August 31st, 1:37am UTC at The Silmarillion by Alassë

• Horcruxes: analogues and sources
  August 20th, 12:15pm UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• Tolkien Calendar 2016: Illustrated by Tove Jansson
  July 28th, 12:00am UTC at Tolkien Library News

• The Amateur Lord of the Rings
  July 27th, 12:00am UTC at Tolkien Library News

• Watch Middle-earth Talk Episode 51 from Tolkien Moot XI
  July 22nd, 6:15am UTC at Tolkien Studies Blog by Michael Martinez

• J.R.R. Tolkien a writer of note
  July 17th, 12:00am UTC at Tolkien Library News

• Why Tolkien's books are so popular Among the Students
  July 17th, 12:00am UTC at Tolkien Library News

• The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien,The Story of Kullervo
  July 16th, 12:00am UTC at Tolkien Library News

• The Hobbit in tengwar!
  June 25th, 9:42pm UTC at The Silmarillion by Sirielle Ontalómë

• Rare The History of Middle Earth, all 3 Limited Deluxe Editions in Publishers Slipcase
  June 11th, 12:00am UTC at Tolkien Library News

• Tolkien and L.W. Forster
  June 10th, 6:29pm UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• News and updates
  June 9th, 3:12pm UTC at Lingwë - Musings of a Fish by Jason Fisher

• Signed copy of the Hobbit sells for record at auction
  June 6th, 12:00am UTC at Tolkien Library News

• post
  June 4th, 8:05pm UTC at The Silmarillion by Sirielle Ontalómë

• On the shores of the shoreless sea
  May 3rd, 12:00am UTC at Tolkien Library News

Tolkien Blogs

The following blogs are aggregated into the recent posts on this site:

• Musings and Considerations

• Speculative Faith

• storago.com

• Scriptorius Rex

• Portfolio

• Weekly Silmarillion Excerpts

• Lingwë - Musings of a Fish

• Michael Martinez

• Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog

• Aiya Iluvatar

• The Silmarillion

• www.theonering.com

• Ted Nasmith

• lordofthekingdom.com

• Diary of a Tolkien Fiend

• the-hobbit-movie.com

• Kanteker's Craft

• Tolkien Geek

• tolkiendil.openstyles.net

• Tolkien Library News

• MiddleEarthBlog

• TheOneRing.Net News

• Tolkien Studies Blog

• Alfred D. Byrd's Blog

• Lord of the Rings and Narnia

• The Stars of Elbereth

• LOTR Librarian

• Lord Fingolfin's Silmarillion

• morgoth

• Tolkien Corner

• The Hobbit

• The Hobbit Blog

• www.thehobbitblog.com

• Jacob Oliver Levine

• Zebby Feeds

Tolkien Links

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Tolkien in the News

"Tolkien OR LOTR OR "Middle earth" OR "Lord of the Rings" OR Hobbit" - Google News

• Your Guide To THE LORD OF THE RINGS Myers-Briggs Personality Types
  Posted at Book Riot

• 5 Lord Of The Rings Movie Facts You Probably Don't Know
  Posted at Cinema Blend

• Lord of the Rings: Who's Tom Bombadil (& Why Was He Cut From The Movies)?
  Posted at Screen Rant

• Martin Freeman almost rejected Bilbo Baggins role in The Hobbit
  Posted at NEWS.com.au

• Amazon eyeing 2021 debut for Lord of the Rings show?
  Posted at Winter is Coming

• Will the 'Lord of the Rings' TV Show Be As Popular As 'Game of Thrones'?
  Posted at Showbiz Cheat Sheet

• Why Is There No Religion In 'The Lord of the Rings'?
  Posted at National Catholic Register

• Russell Crowe Talks About Passing On The Lord Of The Rings
  Posted at GameSpot

• Martin Freeman almost rejected Hobbit role
  Posted at RTE.ie

• Why Russell Crowe said ‘no’ to playing Aragorn in Lord of the Rings
  Posted at PerthNow

• Lord Of The Rings: The 10 Best Deleted Scenes They Added To The Extended Edition, Ranked
  Posted at Screen Rant

• 5 Reasons Why The Hobbit Trilogy Wasn't As Good As The Lord Of The Rings (And 5 Why It Was Better)
  Posted at Screen Rant

• Martin Freeman nearly rejected Hobbit role over fears it would harm personal life
  Posted at Mirror Online

• Russell Crowe Reveals Why He Turned Down The Lord of the Rings
  Posted at Comicbook.com

• 10 Times Game of Thrones Stole From Lord Of The Rings
  Posted at Screen Rant

• Lord of the Rings TV Show: Story & Time Period Explained
  Posted at Screen Rant

• ‘Fellowship! The Musical’ brings back all the ‘Lord of the Rings’ characters — but this time, they’re funny
  Posted at Los Angeles Times

• Deal to bring Lord of the Rings TV series to Edinburgh's new Leith studio 'as good as done'
  Posted at Edinburgh Live

• Sponsored: How Lord of the Rings Online cranked up store conversions
  Posted at Gamasutra

• JRR Tolkien would have spoken out against Islam taking over England
  Posted at Lifesite

• How Tolkien gets the joy of philology right
  Posted at SYFY WIRE

• LOTR Star Sean Astin Almost Directed a FANTASTIC FOUR Movie and He Wanted Christina Aguilera as Sue Storm
  Posted at GeekTyrant

• Lord Of The Rings: 10 Scenes We Wished The Movies Had Shown
  Posted at Screen Rant

• Tolkien and friends: Surely the genesis of the fellowship of the ring?
  Posted at The Age

• Let's Evaluate Palantir's Berkeley Dust-Up Through Tolkien's Lens
  Posted at The Federalist

• Why 'The Lord of the Rings' TV Show Is Set Up to Fail: Where Amazon Went Wrong
  Posted at Showbiz Cheat Sheet

• With ‘LOTR’ in Hand, Daedalic Entertainment Envisions a Bright Future
  Posted at Variety

• When my father met Gandalf: Tolkien’s time as an external examiner at UCG
  Posted at The Irish Times

• Tolkien
  Posted at Channel 24

• Tolkien movie review: Innocuous but uninspiring biopic
  Posted at NEWS.com.au

• Lord Of The Rings: Scouring Of The Shire Explained (& Why The Movie Cut It)
  Posted at Screen Rant

• New Zealand to Revise, Not Repeal, Anti-Union Law in Coda to 2010 "Hobbit Crisis"
  Posted at Hollywood Reporter

• Lord of the Rings star to give Dorset theatres a boost
  Posted at Dorset Echo

• Russell Crowe turned down Lord of the Rings, missed out on $100 million
  Posted at NEWS.com.au

• The movies Men In Black: International and Tolkien are disappointing
  Posted at The Canberra Times

• The Conversion and Persecution of JRR Tolkien's Mother
  Posted at National Catholic Register

• What happened to the wacky, 9-dome West Linn Hobbit Home? See for yourself
  Posted at OregonLive

• Is Amazon's $1 billion Lord of the Rings prequel already doomed?
  Posted at Telegraph.co.uk

• Priest son of Lord Of The Rings author JRR Tolkien 'told scouts to strip and abused altar boy'
  Posted at Birmingham Live

• Tolkien's heirs were right to disapprove of plodding biopic: he deserves better
  Posted at The Age

• Two-bed £20,000 house for sale in area that inspired Tolkien when writing The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings
  Posted at The Sun

• EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment Earth Reveals Beetlejuice and Lord of the Rings Push Puppets
  Posted at sdccblog.com

• Chimacum park is the setting for school's 'Hobbit' production
  Posted at Peninsula Daily News

• The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game Announced, Coming to Game Pass
  Posted at TrueAchievements

• Report: AdreN to join Hobbit and mou to create new CS:GO team
  Posted at Dot Esports

• Wax and Wane: Just What Happened to Brandon Sanderson?
  Posted at Patheos

• See inside Hobbit House, retrofitted plane and floating mansion on Portland Weird Homes Tour
  Posted at OregonLive

• Karen Haber Reviews A Middle-earth Traveler by John Howe
  Posted at Locus Online

• Screen Sounds: The music of Lord of the Rings
  Posted at ABC News

• tolkien poem #3
  Posted at Illinois Times

• Russell Crowe Reveals the Reason He Turned Down 'Lord of the Rings' – Watch!
  Posted at Just Jared

• Meet the bishop who weaves Gospel verses, art, and Tolkien into his ministry
  Posted at Catholic News Agency

• Tolkien Review: The early years of greatness
  Posted at The Catholic Weekly

• Brandon Sanderson Likens Amazon's Wheel Of Time Series to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
  Posted at Gizmodo

• Game of Thrones: Jon Snow fate SEALED from Book One and COPIED from Lord of The Rings
  Posted at Express.co.uk

• Tolkien: A subtle, delicate biopic of The Lord of the Rings author
  Posted at Stuff.co.nz

• Ian McKellen to Return to Broadway for an Evening of Tolkien, Shakespeare, and Others
  Posted at Playbill.com

• ‘LOTR’ and ‘The Godfather’: Lucas and Justus open up on movies, music and favorite presidents
  Posted at fox4kc.com

• Look: 2 Chainz Shares Epic Moment W/ NBA Icon Bill Russell - "Lord Of The Rings"
  Posted at SOHH

• Fictional dialogue shows Catholic, Protestant beliefs on Eucharist
  Posted at Catholic Sentinel

• Watch: Hilary Barry chats with Nicholas Hoult, star of film Tolkien
  Posted at TVNZ

• Collective bargaining rights restored for film industry workers, 'Hobbit Law' not being scrapped
  Posted at TVNZ

• The best mobile data network in Bloemfontein – And we stayed at the Hobbit Hotel
  Posted at MyBroadband

• Birmingham Archdiocese 'ignored abuse to protect reputation'
  Posted at BBC News

• New 'Hobbit'-themed underground burrows set to open outside Calgary
  Posted at CTV News Calgary

• Check out this charming Toy Story cut Topher Grace made ahead of Toy Story 4
  Posted at GamesRadar

• 5 Fantasy Books Better Than The Movies (& 5 That Are Surprisingly Worse)
  Posted at Screen Rant

• Best National Parks and Hiking in New Zealand
  Posted at Fodor's Travel

• The Beatles Movies That Never Happened
  Posted at CinemaNerdz

• Inaugural Wisconsin Comic Con comes to Milwaukee
  Posted at urbanmilwaukee

• Lord of the Rings Amazon prequel series: Everything you need to know
  Posted at CNET

• ‘Tolkien’ Review: A Fellowship That Rings Obvious
  Posted at The New York Times

• Game of Thrones finale was a lesser Lord of the Rings ending
  Posted at Quartz

• Review: 'Tolkien' fails to open a window into the mind behind 'The Lord of the Rings'
  Posted at Los Angeles Times

• You Can Meet Milo Ventimiglia And Sebastian Stan In Houston This Fall
  Posted at Narcity

• Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings': Second Age Explained
  Posted at Hollywood Reporter

• 'Tolkien' is evidence that some people shouldn't get a biopic: Review
  Posted at Mashable

• An Exhibition Brings Tolkien's Vision Down to Earth
  Posted at Hyperallergic

• Review: 'Tolkien' Is A Tale Of Tweed And Trees
  Posted at NPR

• Ian McKellen coming to Broadway for one night only
  Posted at Newsday

• Amazon's Lord of the Rings Series Confirms Its Setting, in the Vaguest Sense Possible
  Posted at Gizmodo

• 'Tolkien': A Life Where Fantasy Met Reality
  Posted at Popular Mechanics

• What Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Maps Reveal About Its Middle-earth Prequel Series
  Posted at Vulture

• “All Is True” and “Tolkien,” Reviewed
  Posted at The New Yorker

• Teenage Tolkien's early glimpses of Middle Earth
  Posted at BBC News

• Nicholas Hoult On Becoming JRR Tolkien
  Posted at NPR

• The Final Treasure from the Tolkien Hoard
  Posted at lareviewofbooks

• Ian McKellen on Stage Tickets | Harold Pinter Theatre
  Posted at LondonTheatre.co.uk

• Game of Thrones: Jon Snow's track is similar to THIS character from The Lord of the Rings; Details inside
  Posted at PINKVILLA

• Tolkien fans, here's your chance to be part of author's oral history
  Posted at USA TODAY

• J.R.R. Tolkien's Estate Slams New Biopic Starring Nicholas Hoult as Lord of the Rings Author
  Posted at PEOPLE.com

• What to expect from Amazon's Lord of the Rings show and its Second Age setting
  Posted at Entertainment Weekly News

• What Tolkien Knew About Love
  Posted at The New York Times

• Elijah Wood On Amazon’s $1 Billion ‘Lord of the Rings’ Investment: ‘That’s Crazy to Me’
  Posted at IndieWire

• The Late Show Meets Middle-Earth: Stephen Colbert Hosts National In-Cinemas Preview Of 'Tolkien'
  Posted at Forbes

• FILM: GATEWAYS TO NEW YORK – the Swiss engineer behind New York's bridges
  Posted at Le News

• ‘Tolkien’ Paints Vivid Picture of Writer’s Life, but Ignores His Faith
  Posted at Daily Signal

• 'Tolkien' gives viewers a roadmap to the mysticism and magic of writer's Middle-earth sagas
  Posted at cleveland.com

• 'Lord of the Rings: Gollum' Video Game in the Works From German Studio Daedalic
  Posted at Hollywood Reporter

• The Catholic origins of The Lord of the Rings and other truths about JRR Tolkien
  Posted at denvercatholic.org