Johan Olin

#Tolkien enthusiast. Also co-designer of #Arda-based purist #tabletop #roleplayinggame #ArdaMarred (see @ArdaMarred)

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Currently making huge revisions to my and my brother's #Tolkien-based role-playing game @ArdaMarred. After some heavy brainstorming we got some good ideas and the new core mechanic feels strong. Hoping to play this summer, but let's see.

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

@tolkienthoughts If I want to become a Tolkien "expert", I don't think I have time to read other authors, except the ones he took inspiration from

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

The non-#Tolkien stuff has now been laid aside, and I have started reading the 3rd and final volume of The Collected Poems of J. R. R. #Tolkien.

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

@TolkienWonder Are you sure this is an actual photo of Tolkien? Do you have a source for it?

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

@TolkienSociety Without these movies, I don't think I'd have become the huge Tolkien fan that I became. But I am careful to point out that I read both LotR and The Silm before - but it was because these movies were released that I decided correctly to read the books before watching the movies

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

However, I will now stray off the path of Tolkien and venture out onto the writings of another author (sacrilege!), but I will find my way back to it in December or early next year.

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Have finally finished 2nd volume of The Collected Poems. Was hoping for more insights into poems that are directly connected to #Tolkien's M-e mythology and even poems of that sort that had never been printed before, but felt there was quite little of that

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

There were more examples of poems that started off as not being part of the mythology but were later adjusted to fit in, such as Errantry. Oh well, since it contains the latest poems chronologically, volume 3 should be the most interesting one...

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Have received The #Bovadium Fragments, but not sure when I will have time for it - still in the middle of The Collected Poems, and I might soon have to turn to some non-#Tolkien literature as well...

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Not sure how interested I am in the subject, but for the sake of completeness, I have now ordered The #Bovadium Fragments. #Tolkien

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Summer is still on! Though not for long here in the north... outdoors reading The Collected Poems of J.R.R. #Tolkien

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

@TolkienSociety I should have been there, it took place during my most active Tolkien years...

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

@TolkienSociety @bodleianlibs If I remember correctly I got the book.

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

But found it surprising some poems that ended up in Adventures of #TomBombadil didnt have connection to #Middleearth at first and were written 45 years before. #Tolkien altered placenames and revised them tiny bit and then they'd been "converted" and were ready for publication!

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Have now finished 1st volume of The Collected Poems. Admit didn't read through most carefully because am mainly interested in those that have directly to do with his #Middleearth mythology, and in this vol there were several that didnt even contain any fantasy elements whatsoever

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Reading #Tolkien warrants a Tolkienian view... not sure have I ever seen this many flowers at once.

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

A bit windy on #MayDay sitting outdoors reading #Tolkien, but I guess there will be more of it in the summer.

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Had to pay some extra since it got stuck in customs, but I have now fetched it. #Tolkien2019 #Tolkien

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Unfortunately I didn't attend this conference myself, but I have now preordered its proceedings. https://t.co/eTo2W6tgcT

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Er, someone hasn't read the book... https://t.co/pjvZ4KGTTL #LotR #Tolkien

[Johan Olin @Ardamir]

Unfortunately I didn't attend this conference myself, but I have now preordered its proceedings. https://t.co/eTo2W6tgcT