Tolkien Trewsday Week 19: First Age – Tuesday 4th July 2023

Week 19: First Age – Tuesday 4th July 2023
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien

Welcome to #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday.

The hub for this Twitter-based event can be found here.

Tolkien Trewsday (the Hobbit name for Tuesday!) invites the #Tolkien community to form a fellowship to collectively tweet about a pre-selected theme about Tolkien, his works and his life.

Each week a new theme will be selected, often via a poll or by a guest host/curator, and together we will build a collective outpouring of creativity, knowledge and love for J.R.R. Tolkien and the adaptions based on his works.

The inspiration for this comes from the highly successful #FolkloreThursday which engaged lovers of Folklore, academics, artists and more to use Twitter to discuss it.

We only ask that if you are joining in, please do so with courtesy and kindness in your tweets. This is a positive-action community event, open to all and supportive of fan diversity. Intolerance, racism, bigotry have no place here.

💬 This week’s theme
Week 19: First Age – Tuesday 4th July 2023

The First Age can include anything: the wars, the heroes and heroines, art, cosplay. The choice is yours!

How to contribute

We are keeping it very simple. All you need to do to join is tweet something about the current week’s theme and use the following hashtags in your tweet:
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien

Your tweet, besides following the theme, can be anything.

The Funeral of Théodred in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers” (Extended Edition)

Week 19: Migrations and monuments: the story of the First Age in Eriador and Rhovanion
A blog essay 

My main (overdue) entry for Tolkien Trewsday for the theme of “First Age” is a 15k-word blog essay examining the settlement in Eriador and Rhovanion during the First Age using Tolkien’s textual evidence. I’ll also focus on the monuments that specifically appear within those regions during this time period.

This essay is long and because of that I have separated it across a number of blog pages to lessen overload. I may be able to provide a PDF version of the essay on request, but will need time to create it.

You can find the introduction of that essay here. The chapters are:

📜 Contents
📜 Introduction
📜 Part 1] The Years of the Trees and Years of the Sun: Awakenings
📜 Part 2] Middle-earth’s first dweller: Tom Bombadil
📜 Part 3] Of starlight and the wide spaces of Middle-earth: The Unwilling Elves and those lost or turned aside on the long road
📜 Part 4] Awakening the Shepherds of the Forests
📜 Part 5] Dwarf-roads to the fortress delvings: the Dwarves in Eriador
📜 Part 6] “A Darkness lies behind us”: the westward migrations of Men
📜 Part 7] In their image: the faithful Drúedain and their watch-stones
📜 Part 8] “Their Wandering Days”– Pre-Shire Hobbits in Rhovanion
📜 Part 9] “Where dead men rest” –Barrow building of the First Age
📜 Part 10] “strife among themselves” – returning to Eriador and Rhovanion
📜 Part 11] “scattered in the lands” – Population of Eriador and Rhovanion by the end of the First Age
📜 Conclusion
📜 Addendum 1] “red flame” – a volcano crafted by evil
📜 Addendum 2] “Elf-haven” – Elves in the south
📜 Bibliography

I’ve also created a quick links navigation (for each page) below:

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“Migrations and monuments” quick links:

Contents | Introduction | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 |
Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Conclusion | Addendum 1 |
Addendum 2 | Bibliography
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