The JRR Tolkien newsletter "Beyond Bree" is producing a new Calendar for 2018. The theme is "Tolkien's Poetry": sing with the elves, men, hobbits and even trolls as the beloved poetry of Tolkien’s works is interpreted by an international range of artists from across the globe! Advance orders are being taken for the "Beyond Bree" [...]

UPDATE: The auction is now running, and many items have sold (Buy It Now) or have bids - if you are interested, check it out! There are many more pieces added after this post was made, so be sure to browse through the collection. https://www.facebook.com/ChangelingArtistCollective/photos/?tab=album&album_id=200247120389988--
I recently saw a facebook post about the Changeling [...]

It's calendar season, and here is a really wonderful one from German artist Jenny Dolfen. She works in watercolors, and there is definitely a strong thread of Tolkien running through her interests. You can see more of her background and artwork at her website, www.goldseven.de.
For the next few days, pre-orders are available through [...]

It is that time of year again, when Beyond Bree is announcing their Calendar for next year. Each year has a different theme, with 2017 being themed around travel. I especially like the Tomas Hijo artwork already shown below! I will be ordering myself a copy as usual.

Beyond Bree
is happy to announce [...]

The Tolkien Society is just about to publish the proceedings of the 2012 Tolkien Society Conference in two volumes, with a lot of very interesting materials available for the first time:
The first volume focuses primarily on Tolkien’s life, examining the influence of war, philosophy, and religion on his mythology. The second volume is much more [...]

Humble Bundle is an online charitable service that offers content from various ebook, audiobook and computer software companies at very low prices, with a portion of all sales going to charity. This week's book bundle includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings books, and two other secondary collections - Tolkien and the West [...]

In case you missed Doug's offer on his blog, he has extra hardcover copies of Tales Before Tolkien that he edited, and he is offering them for $13 postpaid (to USA, inquire for international shipping costs) for the month of January.
Here is the table of contents:
Introduction“The Elves” by Ludwig Tieck“The Golden Key” by George [...]

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first publication of The Lord of the Rings, The Tolkien Society is offering The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference for the discount price of £10 (plus shipping). At a whopping 835 pages in two oversized volumes, this publication contains nearly 100 articles from [...]

Recently I moved to a new house which has some built in bookshelves in my office space (some pictured right, please excuse the debris which still has not found appropriate homes scattered around the books). As I do not yet have the budget to design and build a personal library to perfection, I (and assumably [...]

Lulu.com is having a one-day flash sale with 30% off books and calendars from their print-on-demand catalog. I used the opportunity to finally pick up a full set of the issues 1-50 of Vinyar Tengwar from The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship. There are a lot of important articles in this journal, including many primary [...]