The Lord of the Rings Lunar Read-along Blog
Welcome to the Lord of the Rings Lunar Read-along Blog
Presented by the creator and maintainer of the Shire Reckoning Project and The Lord of the Rings Lunar Read-along project. What is the The Lord of the Rings Lunar Read-along project? Essentially, it’s a way of re-reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in “real-time” (not recommended for first-time readers), according to the moon phases and at the same time-of-year as described in the story, with the help of The Lord of the Rings Appendix B, Hammond & Scull’s The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion, and my Shire Reckoning Project’s Middle-earth calendar simulations. With those simulations,…
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LotR Lunar Readalong Project Page Updated with Digital Tolkien Project Citation Links
Today I updated the LotR Lunar Readalong Project Scheme with Digital Tolkien Project Citation links! This is currently a work in progress, and not all entries have a link, and the bulk of those links were added by an automated script. So there may be some mistakes, but I hope this helps anyone following the Read-along who doesn’t have a copy of the books with the same page numbers as used in the Readalong project page, since the Digital Tolkien citation links provide some context around the linked snippets of text, showing the beginning and ending of the paragraph that…
In Celebration of Durin’s Day: My Interview with the Tolkien Society of Mexico
I was honored and flattered to be invited to an interview with the Tolkien Society of Mexico about my Shire Reckoning project, as part of their Durin’s Day celebrations, which they are observing today! It was an enjoyable interview for me, where they let me talk about as much as I wanted about anything related to their questions, and I am grateful for their interest in my project and kind words of support. Happy Durin’s Day! 🍻🌙🌅
Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar by Dr. Eleanor Parker
I recently watched the Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series video recording of Dr. Eleanor Parker’s talk titled “Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar”. While I was already familiar with some of the topics covered, there was still a lot I learned from this talk, including an interesting interpretation for the name of the Shire Calendar’s month of Rethe as ‘Storm-month’, according to Dr. Eleanor Parker’s reading of J.R.R. Tolkien’s notes in Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary! This appears to agree nicely with the corresponding month in the calendars of Gondor named Súlimë or Gwaeron, which has been translated as ‘Windy-month’. Today…
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