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Every year the #Tolkien community celebrates #TolkienReadingDay on 25 March, the date on which the Ring was destroyed and Sauron defeated.

This year's theme is "Unlikely Heroes" - what will to be reading? #BookSky

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„He said he wanted a ring. Nobody asked follow-up questions.“

Starting “The Tower and the Ruin” by Michael D.C. Drout soon. If I emerge speaking in footnotes and vaguely mourning Númenor, don’t worry…it’s deliberate.

I think I’d ask Elrond:

After everything you’ve seen—watching kingdoms rise and fall, losing your brother to mortality, enduring the fading of your people, and sending your daughter to an uncertain fate—was there ever a moment when you wished you had chosen mortality yourself?

…if there are elections in the coming weeks where you are: go out and vote - for democracy #vote #democracy #Théodenhasapoint #wirsinddiebrandmauer

Probably not obscure enough, but a rediscovery: This thing about Feanor asking for a single strand from Galdriels hair and being refused three times. I forgot about that and recently reread it. I just love this because it’s adding so much depth to that scene with Gimli.

I‘ve got that one, and I love it…illustrations and all

Reminder that being evil makes you stupid:

“But certainly [Sauron] had already become evil, and therefore stupid…” - Morgoth’s Ring

The writer and Tolkien scholar Melanie Rawls, an African American woman in a blue button-up shirt, glasses with thick black rims, and a dapper fedora.

The article "The Feminine Principle in Tolkien" by Melanie Rawls, published in Mythlore 38 (Spring 1984). Above the title and author, a pen-and-ink drawing depicts three powerful women from Tolkien's mythology.

For Black History Month, did you know that one of our foundational Tolkien scholars is a Black woman? Melanie Rawls wrote "The Feminine Principle in Tolkien" (1984), among THE seminal works on women and Tolkien. She's written on JRRT and Ursula Le Guin among others and is a fantasist herself.

New space, same love for Tolkien. Sharing my writing and thoughts on Middle-earth here. Starting off with the logo for my story—more to come!