Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Meriadoc 💍 (He/Him)

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Old digital draft of an ink wash painting I wanted to do of Rivendell. I got anxious every time I restarted this, but I should just push myself to finally do it even if is not perfect 😅 #TolkienTrewsday #art

Photo of a wooden table with a watercolour pad, watercolours, brushes, a glass with water and a mountain-bike tyre pencilcase. The pad shows a half-finished icy landscape in blue hues.

Working on the first of six new watercolours for a book about the history of the Elves to be published by Legendaria Ediciones.

#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

My favourite SILMARILLION chapter?

Of BELERIAND and its REALMS. 🤩😁😇💪

#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday topic: Realms:Elves:

How brave were the Wood-elves that they lived in Mirkwood, filled with giant spiders and things far worse? I love to know that their endurance was rewarded by seeing the huge forest become Greenwood once more. Imagine feasting with them then!

5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Tuesday

#TolkienTuesday / #TolkienTrewsday

#LibraryTuesday

#TuesdayBookBlog

#CrimeLitTuesday

Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week

Any that have been missed?

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Watercolour painting of Rivendell

#TolkienTrewsday Week 158: Realms: Elves

"And the house of Elrond was a refuge for the weary and the oppressed, and a treasury of good counsel and wise lore."

A colored illustration of Rivendell based on a painting by J.R.R. Tolkien.

#TolkienTrewsday Week 158: Realms: Elves

“His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley.”

Welcome to Rivendell!

🍂🧝‍♀️🧵 8/ @brianitguy.bsky.social talks about the Elven covers of MERP here:
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Northern Mirkwood MERP Gail B McIntosh cover

Lorien MERP Angus McBride cover

Rivendell MERP Angus McBride cover

Back in the day when I played MERP. Some of my old books. Lots of adventures in Mirkwood, not so much in Lorien. Cover art by Angus McBride & Gail B McIntosh. Realms: Elves #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien #LOTR #MERP @timbolton.bsky.social

🧙‍♂️🧵 7/ Now it’s over to you, the #Tolkien community! Post away! I hope #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday gets people chatting, meeting new friends and discovering more about J.R.R. Tolkien! This is your event! 🗨️

🧙‍♂️🧵 6/ Thank you post for last week:
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The first poster of the March 2026 themes displayed in the Tolkien Trewsday calendar format along with a screenshot of “Caras Galadhon, Lothlórien” from The Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG. Elvish flets (platform houses) encircle the white mallorn trees of the Golden Woods at various heights. The area is awash with unearthly brightness, coming from the lights and the yellow leaves.

🧙‍♂️🧵 5/ 🔥 THIS MONTH 🔥 📢 #TolkienTrewsday March 2026 themes:

⭕ Week 158 (03/03/26) Realms: Elves
⭕ Week 159 (10/03/26) Realms: Dwarves
⭕ Week 160 (17/03/26) Realms: Men
⭕ Week 161 (24/03/26) Realms: Hobbits
⭕ Week 162 (31/03/26) Realms: Orcs

#TolkienTuesday #Tolkien

🧙‍♂️🧵 4/ The French language edition of #TolkienTrewsday l'#ArbrediTolkien is organised by @bladorthin.bsky.social‬:
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🧙‍♂️🧵 3/ Who should join in? Everyone!
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Trewsday is the Hobbit name for Tuesday! Tolkien Trewsday is a community event across several online spaces: Twitter, BlueSky and now the Tolkien Society Discord server. Each week we form a fellowship to collectively post about a pre-selected theme about Tolkien (his works and his life) as well as adaptions, academic writing and creative stuff such as fanfic, fanart and cosplay. Themes are selected by myself (the organiser) and also via polls or guest hosts/curators. Together we will build a collective outpouring of creativity, knowledge and love for J.R.R. Tolkien. The inspiration for this comes from the highly successful #FolkloreThursday which engaged lovers of Folklore, academics, artists and more to share their love of folklore. We only ask that if you are joining in, please do so with courtesy and kindness in your posts/tweets. This is a positive-action community event, open to all and supportive of fan diversity. Intolerance, racism, bigotry have no place here. Thank you! A new year means a new design! In 2025 the Two Trees remain symbolic but now Telperion (Silver Tree) has a sword trunk and Laurelin (Gold Tree) has a staff trunk.

🧙‍♂️🧵 2/ Let’s begin! This week’s theme (Week 158) is “Realms: Elves”. Please use the following tags when you join in: #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien. You can tweet art, quotes, thoughts, blogs, academic work, reading recommendations, etc. 🗨️

Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2025/02/tolkien-trewsday-year-three.html

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📆 Week 158 (03/03/26): “Realms: Elves” 🌳

The core theme of “Realms” for March 2026 suggested by @bladorthin.bsky.social.

#TolkienTuesday #Tolkien

The French language edition of #TolkienTrewsday l'#ArbrediTolkien is organised by @bladorthin.bsky.social‬:
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Who is #TolkienTuesday for? Everyone!
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Banner image for Tolkien Trewsday and the Green Book of the White Downs. The top shows a stylised photograph of the chalk Ridgeway in Oxfordshire, between Wayland’s Smithy barrow and Uffington White Horse, with the text “The Green Book of the White Downs” and a puff of smoke separating the words. The bottom image shows a graphic of the Two Trees of Valinor with the words “#TolkienTrewsday, #TolkienTuesday and #Tolkien” between them on a blue background.

ℹ️ You can find more information about #TolkienTrewsday here:
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The first poster of the March 2026 themes displayed in the Tolkien Trewsday calendar format along with a screenshot of “Caras Galadhon, Lothlórien” from The Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG. Elvish flets (platform houses) encircle the white mallorn trees of the Golden Woods at various heights. The area is awash with unearthly brightness, coming from the lights and the yellow leaves.

🔥 THIS MONTH 🔥 📢 #TolkienTrewsday March 2026 themes:

⭕ Week 158 (03/03/26) Realms: Elves
⭕ Week 159 (10/03/26) Realms: Dwarves
⭕ Week 160 (17/03/26) Realms: Men
⭕ Week 161 (24/03/26) Realms: Hobbits
⭕ Week 162 (31/03/26) Realms: Orcs

#TolkienTuesday #Tolkien

Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2025/02/tolkien-trewsday-year-three.html

📆 #TolkienTrewsday Week 158 (03/03/26): “Realms: Elves”.

This month’s theme of “Realms” suggested by @bladorthin.bsky.social.

#TolkienTuesday #Tolkien

Picture of Waldreg from The Rings of Power with the following text: #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday "Had a bit of a thrill in here, Trewsday last."

Thank you all for the contributions to #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday this week, your support and love for #Tolkien is much appreciated!

Coming next Tuesday…

"[...] 1956-57 when I first encountered The Lord of the Rings. What I remember is that I read with no sense that I was engaging with a written text. [...] It was an all-enveloping experience, [...] - that I might have been dreaming." Verlyn Flieger on first reading LotR
#TolkienTrewsday

#TolkienTuesday

Smith of Wootton Major mini edition

These mini editions are great. Here's Smith of Wootton Major with annotations by Verlyn Flieger #Tolkien #TolkienTrewsday #VerlynFlieger

On this #TolkienTrewsday, I realize that my dream is to become a Tolkien artist known for drawing hobbits à la Kay Woollard and even Miriam Ellis.

A photo of a book titled There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien, by Verlyn Flieger. The cover depicts a painting of a large tree with swirling trunks in a thick forest.

The first page of an essay titled Making Choices: Moral Ambiguity in Tolkien's Major Fictions. This part rebuked the criticisms of Edwin Muir and Edmund Wilson's criticisms that said the heroes in The Lord of the Rings did not face serious temptations, considering the book as childish and not serious.

To honor Verlyn Flieger for #TolkienTrewsday, I admire her thorough, nuanced essays that are accessible to everyday readers like me. I love her essay on moral ambiguity in Tolkien's works AND how she straight up went to Edwin Muir's and Edmund Wilson's throats on the first page. Honestly, fair.

🧙‍♂️🧵 5/ Now it’s over to you, the #Tolkien community! Post away! I hope #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday gets people chatting, meeting new friends and discovering more about J.R.R. Tolkien! This is your event! 🗨️

🧙‍♂️🧵 4/ The French language edition of #TolkienTrewsday l'#ArbrediTolkien is organised by @bladorthin.bsky.social‬:
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