Tolkien journals, blogs, societies, and podcasts
8 Aug, 2025
(edited)
2025-8-8 3:54:09 PM UTC
2025-8-8 3:54:09 PM UTC
When Covid appeared and many people were stuck at home, I began posting on Reddit a list of useful blogs, societies, open-access journals, and Podcasts that Tolkien collectors and researchers might find useful. For this update I decided to host it here at TCG.
Two channels where regular updates on Tolkien happenings can be found are The Roving Ranger which is of course provided by Marcel R. Bülles aka the Tolkienist aka Olwe and Tolkien Gleanings. Both are excellent for updates on all sorts of Tolkien news.
Open access and free journals
The Mythopoeic Society hosts a number of excellent journals related to Tolkien and the Inklings and the larger literary community.
The Tolkien Journal which proceeded Mythlore ran for 18 issues and all can be found here.
Mythlore is the journal of The Mythopoeic Society and it has many articles and related Tolkien material.
Mythcon proceedings booklet from their gatherings.
Mythic Circle Journal publishes original sci-fi and fantasy.
Mythellany is concocted by people like you who love reading about beasts, armour, princes, and then, (hopefully) writing about them.
Mythril was the first publication of the society.
The first five issues of Parma Eldalamberon have been posted online. Many thanks to Janet Brennan Croft via Rory at the TS Discord server for this information.
Marquette has a project to digitize and post fanzines related to Tolkien.
Miruvor is the Journal of the Oxford Tolkien Society.Although inactive as of 2016, all back issues of the journal are freely available to download[1]
Anor is the Journal of the Cambridge Tolkien Society. Their society costs £4 a year or £10 for a lifetime membership and their publications are available freely.
Journal of Tolkien Research is a peer-reviewed electronic journal.
The North East Tolkien SocietyInactive but the New York (North-East) Society has a few issues of the journal still available on their sidebar[2]
Tolkien was published in The Gryphon University Newspaper (Leeds) and Leeds have archived many of their publications. Publications of note include Dec 1922 ('The Clarke's Compleinte'), Jan 1923 ('Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden'), and June 1926 ('Light on Lindentree').
Journals about the Inklings, related authors, or subjects
Inklings Forever A selection of the proceedings of each Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends are gathered into a publication called Inklings Forever. Each issue is available as a complete journal or individual articles.
North Wind, the Journal of George MacDonald Studies has many interesting topics. Tolkien was influenced by MacDonald and his work will be of interest to some Tolkien readers and scholars alike. Orts is the Newsletter.
The Charles Williams Society offers the Quarterly for download. Not too much Tolkien among the articles but lots of general Inklings information.
A favourite of mine although not linked to Tolkien is the T. S. Eliot website that houses an ever increasing body of letters and texts. Most of the letters have been emitted from his published volumes but are still in many cases fascinating.
The Owen Barfield website has a great collection of articles and resources that any fan of the Inklings should know about.
Fafnir is the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research and has a couple of dozen of its journals archived online.
Not a journal but a brilliant website with an extensive archive of sagas with downloads in multiple languages.
Paid Journals
The Tolkien Society is the official society and their yearly subscription of £30 for a digital membership offers incredible value for money. All of their journals are archived online and available to download as part of a single years subscription.Mallorn is available for free after two years via EBSCO and JSTOR and the British Library[3]
The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship is a special interest group of the Mythopoeic Society and publish a number of journals with primary Tolkien material as well as excellent scholarship relating to Tolkien's invented languages.Vinyar Tengwar is available via Amazon's Print on Demand service in five volumes.[4] Also note that among the information contained at the website is Carl Hostetter's Nature of Middle-earth Addenda and Corrigenda PDF document.
Minas Tirith Evening Star is the journal of the American Tolkien Society. It is a paid journal but a few articles can be freely downloaded.The website has a username/password login pop up but clicking cancel twice bypasses this and some sample issues are available to read.[5]
The Journal of Inklings Studies is a paid journal but its reviews and a few articles are open-access.The journal articles from IS are periodically offered for download for free before returning to the more usual subscription or institutional access[6]
Beyond Bree is the Tolkien Special Interest Group of the American MENSA society. They have a journal starting at as little as $12 for a one year digital subscription.
Tolkien Studies is one of the most important yearly journals dedicated to the study of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Blogs, websites, and wikis
The Tolkienist blog from Marcel R. Bülles aka Olwe has news on all sorts of Tolkien stuff and look out for the 'Not a Tolkien Quote' posts. A lot of fun and dispels those pesky quotes by Tolkien that are in fact not Tolkien quotes at all.
Thoughts on Tolkien our own Tuor son of Huor blog.
The Tolkien Estate is the official home of the Tolkien Estate where various articles, letter samples and video/audio material can be found.
Website of Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull and Too Many Books and Never Enough are the websites of Findegil. The former gives details on their publications and various useful information, especially their Addenda & Corrigenda which covers all of their publications to date.
Sacnoth's Scriptorium is the blog of John D. Rateliff.
John Garth's website has a lot of articles on Tolkien with a keen focus on his wartime years and his friends from the TCBS.
Alas, not me is the blog of Tom Hillman.
Aronzo Cilli's Tolkien Library website. His book Tolkien's Library was the winner of the Tolkien Society 2020 Book of the Year award.
Anna Smol's website 'A Single Leaf' contains articles on Tolkien and medieval studies connected to hum.
Douglas A. Anderson's website A Shiver in the Archive contains various articles and information on JRRT. Doug is the author of the Annotated Hobbit among other related books.
Wormwoodiana is devoted to fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature. It was begun by Douglas A. Anderson and Mark Valentine, and joined by friends including James Doig and Jim Rockhill, to present relevant news and information.
Southfarthing Mathom is a small reading group but I follow them for their meeting notes that often include some interesting topics.
Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog from Michael Martinez offers various articles on Tolkien's writings including a Q&A where people can send in their queries to be answered.
The Frodo Franchise is inactive but still has a lot of details on the movies and the actors from them.
Michael Tolkien's website contains various details about his Grandfather including quotes from Carpenter's Letter #315 (J.R.R. Tolkien to Michael George Tolkien, 1 January 1970) that were not published as part of the letter.
The Fellowship of the King is a literary website focussing on spiritual studies.
The Flame Imperishable is a blog about Tolkien, St. Thomas, and other purveyors of the Philosophia Perennis.
The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature offers the annual lecture on fantasy, sci-fi, and other speculative fiction, held at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Brian Sibley's website details his work on JRRT.
A Phuulish Fellow is the blog of Daniel Stride.
Tolkien, Nesbit, and Ransome offers some brief articles on Tolkien. The website is down and has not been updated in more than ten years but the pages are archived through the Wayback Machine.
The Tolkniety website is primarily in Polish but with some English pages (Google translate copes pretty well for the Polish pages) and deals with Tolkien's European family tree going back many hundreds of years.
parma-kenta is no longer updated and is dormant but the site still has many interesting and useful pages. Tolkien Transactions was published as an update to what was going on in all things Tolkien and those updates are still full of useful links.
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts An interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media
The Horn of Rohan Redux is the occasional blog from The Mythopoeic Society.
Philoloblog has not been active in some years but has interesting articles linked to Tolkien.
Tolkien in Leeds has details on his time in Leeds and the surrounding area and focuses on his academic life during that period.
Verlyn Flieger is one of the most important Tolkien scholars and has published many books on the subject.
The Northwest Tolkien Society website is dormant but contains some interesting posts.
Tolkien and Fantasy muses on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature.
Dr. Wotan's Musings is the blog of Dr. Andrew Higgins.
Eldamo - An Elvish Lexicon is a collection of documents is a lexicon of Tolkien’s invented languages.
The Oddest Inklings An exploration of the works of poet Charles Williams (1886-1945)
Dimitra Fimi academic and writer. Her books Tolkien, Race and Cultural History and J.R.R. Tolkien: A Secret Vice, edited with Andrew Higgins are both popular works among readers.
TolkienGuide I hope that you all know this place
Also don't forget our Guide to Tolkien's Letters and the recent Guide to Tolkien Calendars.
The Mathom-house has articles and news on Tolkien.Although inactive, it still has useful resources[7]
The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog
Fellowship and Fairydust is a literary magazine inspiring faith and creativity and exploring the arts through a spiritual lens.
Jason Fisher's blog: Lingwe - Musings of a Fish
Giovanni Carmine Costabile’s blog: The Green Girdle
Stephen Winter’s blog: Wisdom from the Lord of the Rings
Andrew Higgins's Substack: Elvish Musings
Putri Prihatini’s blog: The Lore Master: Blog Tolkien Indonesia
Miriam Ellis's blog
The Wade Center's blog: Off the Shelf
Khamûl's blog: Silmarillion Minutiae
Christopher Stites (Wonder of Tolkien) Substack: This Beautiful Ache
The Digital Tolkien Project will be known to many here for all of the amazing work they do.
The Associazione Italiana Studi Tolkieniani while not an English site, it has great articles and news stories on Tolkien
Bree Crossroads by Katie McKenna is back and on substack.
Mathoms by Thoughts on Tolkien From our own Tuor son of Huor "For those who might be interested, I’ve started a monthly newsletter called “Mathoms” with updates and recommendations related to my Tolkien reading. I include a little section called “The Hoard” in which I will share updates on additions to my Tolkien collection."
Tea With Tolkien is a welcoming and positive online community celebrating the life, writings, and Catholic faith of J.R.R. Tolkien. We invite you to pull up a cozy chair and join us as we dive deeper into the The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and beyond. Tea With Tolkien won the 2026 Tolkien Society award for best online content.
General blogs with links to J.R.R. Tolkien
Dennis Wilson Wise is an academic writer with an interest in Tolkien, fantasy literature, Sci-fi and various other studies. He also has a blog Stratofanatic's EmporiumHis website is inactive but the blog is still active[8]
Wormtalk and Slugspeak website of Michael Drout.Inactive since 2020[9]
The Ruminate is a place to report news, calls for papers, and other things of interest to the Late Antique, Patristic, Early Medieval, and Book Arts folk and to just chat about things medieval.
Green Book of the White Downs offers posts on all sorts of Tolkien and adjacent subjects.
ArtworkThere are obviously hundreds of very decent artists so I have not attempted to list them. You all have your favourites and feel free to post links in the comments if the fancy takes you.[10]
A few worthy mentions include Tolkien Art Index Ted Nasmith John Howe Donato Arts, and Miriam Ellis.
ArdaCraft is building the largest and most detailed recreation of Middle-earth.
AUDIO
The Tale of Ears website is an incredible resource dedicated to audio readings and more of Tolkien's works. I had the pleasure of watching David Walker's talk at this years Oxonmoot and have since connected with him via email about his website. Well worth a visit to see the sheer amount of Tolkien book recordings and the list is growing regularly. As many of you know well, I work with Paul Corfield Godfrey and Volante Opera ProductionsI include the shop link here for convenience but in a footnote. This page is not about advertising our products. It should be noted that I do not receive any financial benefits for my work with Paul and Volante and as one of the three 'Officers' of his Musical Trust, I speak with permission on his professional behalf, but I do so voluntarily.[11] on Paul's operatic cycles and many detail about his, including musical and textual analysis can be seen at Paul's website.
A Long-Expected Soundscape is an Immersive Audio Soundscape journey through J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. You can also use it as an accompaniment for reading the books or sync it with the official audiobook to get an incredible immersive audio experience.
PodcastsThese Podcasts will be available on various platforms. This small list leads in most cases to the official websites.[12]
Tolkien Talk excellent Tolkien content, primarily in Portuguese from Cesar Machado 🇧🇷 & Inês Cardoso Anacleto 🇵🇹
In Deep Geek talks about all sorts of things from Tolkien to GRR Martin and everything in between that is fantasy related.
The Tolkien Heads
The Prancing Pony Podcast and Today's Tolkien Times
The Tolkien Road
Tolkien at Oxford and Oxford University Podcasts explore Tolkien's relationship with Oxford, his education, his teaching, home life and obviously his writing.
Tolkien About It
Tolkien Experience Project
Corey Olsen and his Mythgard University have produced hundreds of episodes and can be found through his website TolkienProfessor and Mythgard
Speak Friend and EnterLast updated December 2023 but has 34 episodes[13]
Sith Lord of the Rings discusses Star Wars, Tolkien and much more.Has not posted since 2022.[14]
Amon Sûl: Exploring the Tolkien Legendarium with the Christian Faith Join host Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick and his guest co-hosts as they explore the life, works and Middle-earth legendarium of author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Nerd of the Rings is probably the biggest content creator in the Tolkien community with more than 1.2m subscribers on YouTube.
Girl Next Gondor is not a Podcast I know but thank you to DMRoberts for the suggestion.
Brewing Books James talks about Fantasy and includes items from his collection.
The Entmoot Podcast Co-hosts Kenny Talarico and Sam Lieberman discuss the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and what they tell us about politics, philosophy, religion, and life.
Words Do Things Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words ... can really hurt you. Join Dr. Sørina Higgins and guests think about the powers and limits of language. Are words magical? Can they actually effect change? Why do people weaponize them? Can we shift our use of public rhetoric? What have great authors believed about the relationship between writing and the divine? How can you become a more powerful and effective writer?
Athrabeth is a monthly podcast that invites you down the lesser trod paths of Tolkien's Legendarium. Each episode we pick a single chapter, essay, fragment, or topic, and do a deep dive, exploring it as both fans and scholars.
I have not done anything with general forums and social media so feel free to suggest any interesting places that should be listed here.
Two channels where regular updates on Tolkien happenings can be found are The Roving Ranger which is of course provided by Marcel R. Bülles aka the Tolkienist aka Olwe and Tolkien Gleanings. Both are excellent for updates on all sorts of Tolkien news.
Open access and free journals
The Mythopoeic Society hosts a number of excellent journals related to Tolkien and the Inklings and the larger literary community.
The Tolkien Journal which proceeded Mythlore ran for 18 issues and all can be found here.
Mythlore is the journal of The Mythopoeic Society and it has many articles and related Tolkien material.
Mythcon proceedings booklet from their gatherings.
Mythic Circle Journal publishes original sci-fi and fantasy.
Mythellany is concocted by people like you who love reading about beasts, armour, princes, and then, (hopefully) writing about them.
Mythril was the first publication of the society.
The first five issues of Parma Eldalamberon have been posted online. Many thanks to Janet Brennan Croft via Rory at the TS Discord server for this information.
Marquette has a project to digitize and post fanzines related to Tolkien.
Miruvor is the Journal of the Oxford Tolkien Society.Although inactive as of 2016, all back issues of the journal are freely available to download[1]
Anor is the Journal of the Cambridge Tolkien Society. Their society costs £4 a year or £10 for a lifetime membership and their publications are available freely.
Journal of Tolkien Research is a peer-reviewed electronic journal.
The North East Tolkien SocietyInactive but the New York (North-East) Society has a few issues of the journal still available on their sidebar[2]
Tolkien was published in The Gryphon University Newspaper (Leeds) and Leeds have archived many of their publications. Publications of note include Dec 1922 ('The Clarke's Compleinte'), Jan 1923 ('Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden'), and June 1926 ('Light on Lindentree').
Journals about the Inklings, related authors, or subjects
Inklings Forever A selection of the proceedings of each Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends are gathered into a publication called Inklings Forever. Each issue is available as a complete journal or individual articles.
North Wind, the Journal of George MacDonald Studies has many interesting topics. Tolkien was influenced by MacDonald and his work will be of interest to some Tolkien readers and scholars alike. Orts is the Newsletter.
The Charles Williams Society offers the Quarterly for download. Not too much Tolkien among the articles but lots of general Inklings information.
A favourite of mine although not linked to Tolkien is the T. S. Eliot website that houses an ever increasing body of letters and texts. Most of the letters have been emitted from his published volumes but are still in many cases fascinating.
The Owen Barfield website has a great collection of articles and resources that any fan of the Inklings should know about.
Fafnir is the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research and has a couple of dozen of its journals archived online.
Not a journal but a brilliant website with an extensive archive of sagas with downloads in multiple languages.
Paid Journals
The Tolkien Society is the official society and their yearly subscription of £30 for a digital membership offers incredible value for money. All of their journals are archived online and available to download as part of a single years subscription.Mallorn is available for free after two years via EBSCO and JSTOR and the British Library[3]
The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship is a special interest group of the Mythopoeic Society and publish a number of journals with primary Tolkien material as well as excellent scholarship relating to Tolkien's invented languages.Vinyar Tengwar is available via Amazon's Print on Demand service in five volumes.[4] Also note that among the information contained at the website is Carl Hostetter's Nature of Middle-earth Addenda and Corrigenda PDF document.
Minas Tirith Evening Star is the journal of the American Tolkien Society. It is a paid journal but a few articles can be freely downloaded.The website has a username/password login pop up but clicking cancel twice bypasses this and some sample issues are available to read.[5]
The Journal of Inklings Studies is a paid journal but its reviews and a few articles are open-access.The journal articles from IS are periodically offered for download for free before returning to the more usual subscription or institutional access[6]
Beyond Bree is the Tolkien Special Interest Group of the American MENSA society. They have a journal starting at as little as $12 for a one year digital subscription.
Tolkien Studies is one of the most important yearly journals dedicated to the study of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Blogs, websites, and wikis
The Tolkienist blog from Marcel R. Bülles aka Olwe has news on all sorts of Tolkien stuff and look out for the 'Not a Tolkien Quote' posts. A lot of fun and dispels those pesky quotes by Tolkien that are in fact not Tolkien quotes at all.
Thoughts on Tolkien our own Tuor son of Huor blog.
The Tolkien Estate is the official home of the Tolkien Estate where various articles, letter samples and video/audio material can be found.
Website of Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull and Too Many Books and Never Enough are the websites of Findegil. The former gives details on their publications and various useful information, especially their Addenda & Corrigenda which covers all of their publications to date.
Sacnoth's Scriptorium is the blog of John D. Rateliff.
John Garth's website has a lot of articles on Tolkien with a keen focus on his wartime years and his friends from the TCBS.
Alas, not me is the blog of Tom Hillman.
Aronzo Cilli's Tolkien Library website. His book Tolkien's Library was the winner of the Tolkien Society 2020 Book of the Year award.
Anna Smol's website 'A Single Leaf' contains articles on Tolkien and medieval studies connected to hum.
Douglas A. Anderson's website A Shiver in the Archive contains various articles and information on JRRT. Doug is the author of the Annotated Hobbit among other related books.
Wormwoodiana is devoted to fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature. It was begun by Douglas A. Anderson and Mark Valentine, and joined by friends including James Doig and Jim Rockhill, to present relevant news and information.
Southfarthing Mathom is a small reading group but I follow them for their meeting notes that often include some interesting topics.
Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog from Michael Martinez offers various articles on Tolkien's writings including a Q&A where people can send in their queries to be answered.
The Frodo Franchise is inactive but still has a lot of details on the movies and the actors from them.
Michael Tolkien's website contains various details about his Grandfather including quotes from Carpenter's Letter #315 (J.R.R. Tolkien to Michael George Tolkien, 1 January 1970) that were not published as part of the letter.
The Fellowship of the King is a literary website focussing on spiritual studies.
The Flame Imperishable is a blog about Tolkien, St. Thomas, and other purveyors of the Philosophia Perennis.
The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature offers the annual lecture on fantasy, sci-fi, and other speculative fiction, held at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Brian Sibley's website details his work on JRRT.
A Phuulish Fellow is the blog of Daniel Stride.
Tolkien, Nesbit, and Ransome offers some brief articles on Tolkien. The website is down and has not been updated in more than ten years but the pages are archived through the Wayback Machine.
The Tolkniety website is primarily in Polish but with some English pages (Google translate copes pretty well for the Polish pages) and deals with Tolkien's European family tree going back many hundreds of years.
parma-kenta is no longer updated and is dormant but the site still has many interesting and useful pages. Tolkien Transactions was published as an update to what was going on in all things Tolkien and those updates are still full of useful links.
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts An interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media
The Horn of Rohan Redux is the occasional blog from The Mythopoeic Society.
Philoloblog has not been active in some years but has interesting articles linked to Tolkien.
Tolkien in Leeds has details on his time in Leeds and the surrounding area and focuses on his academic life during that period.
Verlyn Flieger is one of the most important Tolkien scholars and has published many books on the subject.
The Northwest Tolkien Society website is dormant but contains some interesting posts.
Tolkien and Fantasy muses on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature.
Dr. Wotan's Musings is the blog of Dr. Andrew Higgins.
Eldamo - An Elvish Lexicon is a collection of documents is a lexicon of Tolkien’s invented languages.
The Oddest Inklings An exploration of the works of poet Charles Williams (1886-1945)
Dimitra Fimi academic and writer. Her books Tolkien, Race and Cultural History and J.R.R. Tolkien: A Secret Vice, edited with Andrew Higgins are both popular works among readers.
TolkienGuide I hope that you all know this place
Also don't forget our Guide to Tolkien's Letters and the recent Guide to Tolkien Calendars.
The Mathom-house has articles and news on Tolkien.Although inactive, it still has useful resources[7]
The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog
Fellowship and Fairydust is a literary magazine inspiring faith and creativity and exploring the arts through a spiritual lens.
Jason Fisher's blog: Lingwe - Musings of a Fish
Giovanni Carmine Costabile’s blog: The Green Girdle
Stephen Winter’s blog: Wisdom from the Lord of the Rings
Andrew Higgins's Substack: Elvish Musings
Putri Prihatini’s blog: The Lore Master: Blog Tolkien Indonesia
Miriam Ellis's blog
The Wade Center's blog: Off the Shelf
Khamûl's blog: Silmarillion Minutiae
Christopher Stites (Wonder of Tolkien) Substack: This Beautiful Ache
The Digital Tolkien Project will be known to many here for all of the amazing work they do.
The Associazione Italiana Studi Tolkieniani while not an English site, it has great articles and news stories on Tolkien
Bree Crossroads by Katie McKenna is back and on substack.
Mathoms by Thoughts on Tolkien From our own Tuor son of Huor "For those who might be interested, I’ve started a monthly newsletter called “Mathoms” with updates and recommendations related to my Tolkien reading. I include a little section called “The Hoard” in which I will share updates on additions to my Tolkien collection."
Tea With Tolkien is a welcoming and positive online community celebrating the life, writings, and Catholic faith of J.R.R. Tolkien. We invite you to pull up a cozy chair and join us as we dive deeper into the The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and beyond. Tea With Tolkien won the 2026 Tolkien Society award for best online content.
General blogs with links to J.R.R. Tolkien
Dennis Wilson Wise is an academic writer with an interest in Tolkien, fantasy literature, Sci-fi and various other studies. He also has a blog Stratofanatic's EmporiumHis website is inactive but the blog is still active[8]
Wormtalk and Slugspeak website of Michael Drout.Inactive since 2020[9]
The Ruminate is a place to report news, calls for papers, and other things of interest to the Late Antique, Patristic, Early Medieval, and Book Arts folk and to just chat about things medieval.
Green Book of the White Downs offers posts on all sorts of Tolkien and adjacent subjects.
ArtworkThere are obviously hundreds of very decent artists so I have not attempted to list them. You all have your favourites and feel free to post links in the comments if the fancy takes you.[10]
A few worthy mentions include Tolkien Art Index Ted Nasmith John Howe Donato Arts, and Miriam Ellis.
ArdaCraft is building the largest and most detailed recreation of Middle-earth.
AUDIO
The Tale of Ears website is an incredible resource dedicated to audio readings and more of Tolkien's works. I had the pleasure of watching David Walker's talk at this years Oxonmoot and have since connected with him via email about his website. Well worth a visit to see the sheer amount of Tolkien book recordings and the list is growing regularly. As many of you know well, I work with Paul Corfield Godfrey and Volante Opera ProductionsI include the shop link here for convenience but in a footnote. This page is not about advertising our products. It should be noted that I do not receive any financial benefits for my work with Paul and Volante and as one of the three 'Officers' of his Musical Trust, I speak with permission on his professional behalf, but I do so voluntarily.[11] on Paul's operatic cycles and many detail about his, including musical and textual analysis can be seen at Paul's website.
A Long-Expected Soundscape is an Immersive Audio Soundscape journey through J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. You can also use it as an accompaniment for reading the books or sync it with the official audiobook to get an incredible immersive audio experience.
PodcastsThese Podcasts will be available on various platforms. This small list leads in most cases to the official websites.[12]
Tolkien Talk excellent Tolkien content, primarily in Portuguese from Cesar Machado 🇧🇷 & Inês Cardoso Anacleto 🇵🇹
In Deep Geek talks about all sorts of things from Tolkien to GRR Martin and everything in between that is fantasy related.
The Tolkien Heads
The Prancing Pony Podcast and Today's Tolkien Times
The Tolkien Road
Tolkien at Oxford and Oxford University Podcasts explore Tolkien's relationship with Oxford, his education, his teaching, home life and obviously his writing.
Tolkien About It
Tolkien Experience Project
Corey Olsen and his Mythgard University have produced hundreds of episodes and can be found through his website TolkienProfessor and Mythgard
Speak Friend and EnterLast updated December 2023 but has 34 episodes[13]
Sith Lord of the Rings discusses Star Wars, Tolkien and much more.Has not posted since 2022.[14]
Amon Sûl: Exploring the Tolkien Legendarium with the Christian Faith Join host Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick and his guest co-hosts as they explore the life, works and Middle-earth legendarium of author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Nerd of the Rings is probably the biggest content creator in the Tolkien community with more than 1.2m subscribers on YouTube.
Girl Next Gondor is not a Podcast I know but thank you to DMRoberts for the suggestion.
Brewing Books James talks about Fantasy and includes items from his collection.
The Entmoot Podcast Co-hosts Kenny Talarico and Sam Lieberman discuss the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and what they tell us about politics, philosophy, religion, and life.
Words Do Things Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words ... can really hurt you. Join Dr. Sørina Higgins and guests think about the powers and limits of language. Are words magical? Can they actually effect change? Why do people weaponize them? Can we shift our use of public rhetoric? What have great authors believed about the relationship between writing and the divine? How can you become a more powerful and effective writer?
Athrabeth is a monthly podcast that invites you down the lesser trod paths of Tolkien's Legendarium. Each episode we pick a single chapter, essay, fragment, or topic, and do a deep dive, exploring it as both fans and scholars.
I have not done anything with general forums and social media so feel free to suggest any interesting places that should be listed here.
1 Although inactive as of 2016, all back issues of the journal are freely available to download ↩
2 Inactive but the New York (North-East) Society has a few issues of the journal still available on their sidebar ↩
3 Mallorn is available for free after two years via EBSCO and JSTOR and the British Library ↩
4 Vinyar Tengwar is available via Amazon's Print on Demand service in five volumes. ↩
5 The website has a username/password login pop up but clicking cancel twice bypasses this and some sample issues are available to read. ↩
6 The journal articles from IS are periodically offered for download for free before returning to the more usual subscription or institutional access ↩
7 Although inactive, it still has useful resources ↩
8 His website is inactive but the blog is still active ↩
9 Inactive since 2020 ↩
10 There are obviously hundreds of very decent artists so I have not attempted to list them. You all have your favourites and feel free to post links in the comments if the fancy takes you. ↩
11 I include the shop link here for convenience but in a footnote. This page is not about advertising our products. It should be noted that I do not receive any financial benefits for my work with Paul and Volante and as one of the three 'Officers' of his Musical Trust, I speak with permission on his professional behalf, but I do so voluntarily. ↩
12 These Podcasts will be available on various platforms. This small list leads in most cases to the official websites. ↩
13 Last updated December 2023 but has 34 episodes ↩
14 Has not posted since 2022. ↩
Olorin wrote:
What a wonderfully comprehensive go-to one stop collation. My book mountain is about to get bigger as a result of this one hell of a update from this sherpa's many trails. Thank you.
Thank you for the comment
but comprehensive is too kind as shown above from Tuor son of Huor who lists resources that I myself use. Thank you for the additions Tuor son of Huor and Foxrook, I hope you find plenty to read from the list.EDIT: Tuor's links added. Many thanks for those great additions.
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