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On a fine summer day in a former age, Robert Quilter Gilson of the #TCBS made a watercolour of a Norfolk beach scene. I find it one of the most affecting of the pictures preserved in the little sketchbooks of this friend of #Tolkien. More: https://t.co/pextuO4t0J #Remembrance

Whenever I look in detail at the day-to-day events of the Second World War, so full of sorrow and horror, I'm always struck by the births of people who will go on to make the world a better place. #remembrancesunday #remembranceday

Tolkien and the Great War is currently on sale happy Wednesday you’re welcome 🫡 https://t.co/4jaoA2Pu68

Where the veil between seasons and legends is thin. Wayland's Smithy longbarrow is cradled by a blazing ring of autumn foliage. The very definition of a timeless landscape. 🍁 #History #Mythology

John Garth, Tolkien at Exeter College:

So I sat down to read C.S. Lewis’s All My Road Before Me, his 1922–1927 diary. It promises a deep dive into the period when he met Tolkien. But five pages in, I had to put the book down. I had been attacked by a Screwtapian demon of distraction… https://t.co/Zq9OCQiwnD #cslewis

Some interesting notes about Tolkien's research requests in preparation for his "On Fairy-Stories" Andrew Lang lecture in @JohnGarthWriter's new Inklings Studies article

Additionally, @JohnGarthWriter's article discovering the original manuscript of Tolkien's lecture "On Fairy-stories" is freely available to read here:

I've identified the manuscript #Tolkien used for his landmark 1939 lecture On Fairy-stories – previously thought lost. See my featured article, available online, in the latest issue of the Journal of Inklings Studies! https://t.co/zk1FuECJim

To mark the publication of Tolkien's Bovadium Fragments, join me as I explore the background to his satire on the motor-car and Oxford… #tolkien #oxford #bovadium https://t.co/u9riSlYhyo

Apt review of John Gribbin's In Search of Schrödinger's Cat.

I also got the amazing privilege of sitting down to have conversations with some of these folks: https://t.co/UAd2ic8kvl

As #Tolkien became professor of Anglo-Saxon in Oxford century ago, the city’s Morris Motors became Britain’s biggest car maker. There's a certain inevitability he would flourish a poison pen on the topic. I review THE BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS in today's Times.

During the month of October @PrincetonUPress has @JohnGarthWriter's excellent book "The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien" available for 70% off! If you don't have it already, this is a great opportunity.

Did you know J.R.R. Tolkien was an air raid warden in the Second World War while writing The Lord of the Rings? Now a previously unseen archive image reveals the date he joined. I have thoughts on why… https://t.co/TSQc5R1ZHT #Tolkien #WW2 #Oxford #LotR

Happy Hobbit Day everyone! On this day in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien gave us The Hobbit, our doorway into Middle-earth. Inside he hid a gift to his favourite aunt. My latest blog post will put you in the picture! https://t.co/6uA62H85Cr #Tolkien #HobbitDay #Hobbit

Tolkien hid all kinds of personal jokes and messages in his stories and – it turns out – in his pictures. Here's a newly discovered one in his famous image of Hobbiton. https://t.co/6uA62H7xMT #Tolkien #Hobbit #Hobbiton #inspiration #Nottinghamshire @BBCNottingham @GedlingEye

Moria Medley: Yrch Blues Hey Balrog Get Back (I Am the Servant of the Flame of Anor)

Mean Mr Mustard of Rohan (credited to þe Béotles)

What do you think the #Beatles might have sung if they'd made their #LotR movie? I'll start… Carry That Weight Shelob’s You Elanor Gamgee I Am The Man Who Wrote The Oxford English Dictionary Etymology For The Word “Walrus” [No AI was used in this image.]