Tolkien Trewsday: Year Three
With Week 105 Tolkien Trewsday entered its third year. To reflect this the “Story so far…” (calendar) and “Introducing Tolkien Trewsday” posters have had a refresh (see below), though still with the Trees of Valinor as a focal point. This page will become the hub for keeping you informed about what is coming up for Tolkien Trewsday.
The refreshed logo has two versions. The version above and this version below. You'll see both on advertising and elsewhere.
Tolkien Trewsday is a positive-action community event on social media centred around a weekly theme chosen via a steerage group and also from community suggestions.
A handy help sheet is provided below to explain all you need to know about Tolkien Trewsday and this is posted each week on a starter thread, usually just before midnight UK going from Monday into Tuesday. Entries are not restricted to just Tuesday, participants can add content with the hashtag #TolkienTrewsday whenever convenient to them.
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📜 Alt text for the helpsheet:
Trewsday is the Hobbit name for Tuesday! Tolkien Trewsday is a community event across several online spaces: Twitter, BlueSky and now the Tolkien Society Facebook group.
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.
📆 Tolkien Trewsday Year Three: The Calendar
"The Story so far..." schedule sheet #8 (click for full-size):
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📜 Week 105 – The Artist - 25 February 2025 - Celebrating the birthday of Tolkien artist Roger Garland (28 February 1950)
🔔 Special Event for March 2025: Tolkien Reading Day
March brings Tolkien Reading Day on the 25th March organised by the Tolkien Society since 2003. You can read more here. The Tolkien Trewsday themes for this month are focused on the lead-up to and the week of Tolkien Reading Day, giving the community as wide an opportunity as possible to participate and the chance to talk about their favourite Tolkien books or adaptions. Please note audio books are counted as reading and all interests are valid here.
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📜 Week 106 - The Great Tales – 4 March 2025 - Includes: the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, the Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, the Fall of Gondolin, the Nature of Middle-earth, the Fall of Númenor, the History of Middle-earth, etc
📜 Week 107 - The Hobbit and the Adventures of Tom Bombadil – 11 March 2025
📜 Week 108 - The Lord of the Rings – 18 March 2025
📜 Week 109 – Tolkien Reading Day – 25 March 2025 - this includes all previous March weeks and Tolkien's non-Middle-earth and academic work, plus works about Tolkien, his life and work.
📜 Week 110 - Fools and comedy - 1 April 2025 - celebrating April Fool's Day.
➤📆 Week 111 - Beer - 8 April 2025 - It's New Beer's Eve (6th April), remembering the end of Prohibition in the USA.
📆 Week 112 - Books & Libraries - 15 April 2025 - National Librarian Day (US) on 16th April.
📆 Week 113 - Chance - 22 April 2025 - Highlighting Take a Chance Day (23rd April).
📆 Week 114 - Tyrants - 29 April 2025 - Dipping into the end of Allan Whincup's Tolkien Art Challenge on BlueSky here, his day 29 theme is "Great Goblin". The Tolkien Trewsday steerage group also suggested Melkor/Sauron as a theme in April.
📌 Send theme suggestions to me over on Twitter here or BlueSky here via a reply or a DM.
📌 More Tolkien Trewsday themes soon!
May, June and July 2025 themes being confirmed! August is already pre-planned for a special event!
📜 Tolkien Trewsday Archive
Weeks 01 to 104 can be found here on the "Introducing Tolkien Trewsday" blog page.
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