I'm now officially a graduate member of Oxford University and St Antony's College, pursuing a DPhil on @Tolkien and @WW2 with amazing crowdfunding help. Delighted with the welcome dinner company and looking forward to hard work ahead. Read more… steady.page/en/john-gart...

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For #TolkienTrewsday theme of "bows", I present the Beautiful Bare-chested Brown Bard aiming his arrow at green Smaug from the 1979 cover of Indonesian The Hobbit, drawn by Setyo Sudhiarto. Translated by A. Adiwiyoto, it used "orang bajang" for Dwarves instead of "kurcaci" like in the new version.

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Tonight, one of Tolkien's supreme moments of Faerian consolation on the slope of Weathertop, in which Strider consoles himself while consoling the hobbits with the ancient tale of how Beren and Lúthien Tinúviel became one another's sources of consolation in tree-tangled Middle-earth. Remarkable!

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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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Brilliant livestream yesterday celebrating the 20th Anniversary of @tolkienguide.com with a great line up of panels and talks by #Tolkien scholars congrats TolkienGuide team for putting this on. www.youtube.com/live/67yEiBy...

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