2024 Holiday Shopping Ideas

First up, I've long been a fan of Jordan Rannells, and his soundscapes. He's just released "An Unexpected Soundscape", an immersive audio soundscape journey inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. You can also use it as an accompaniment for reading the books or sync it with the official audiobook to get an incredible immersive audio experience.

Link to the store: https://jordanrannells.com/shop/p/an-unexpected-soundscape
Discount Code: TCG25

Also, if you are quick, you might catch the Black Friday sale with 30% off all available soundscapes. Highly recommended!

Artist Jenny Dolfen is having a Black Friday sale on prints of her art.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/jenny.dolfen.5/
Black Friday discount code: 3GSGWT

Spineless Classics is having a Black Friday sale as well, with 30% off everything including framed posters. Use code BF30 at checkout.

This is the (licensed, official) poster which is also the entire text of The Hobbit. But you can get lots of different "books as posters", framed or not, in this sale.

https://spinelessclassics.com/en-us/products/the-hobbit-sp136

From Tuor son of Huor (thank you!)

Kent State University Press publishes lots of Tolkien books and has a 30% off sale (Code: ENJOY30) through 12/31. Here’s some of their Tolkien books:

https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/

Pity, Power, & Tolkien’s Ring by Thomas Hillman
Interrupted Music by Verlyn Flieger
Splintered Light by Verlyn Flieger
Green Suns & Faerie by Verlyn Flieger
There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale by Verlyn Flieger
Tolkien’s Cosmology by Sam McBride
A Sense of Tales Untold by Peter Grybauskas
The Sweet and the Bitter by Amy Amendt-Raduege
Arda Inhabited by Susan Jeffers
Tolkien, Enchantment, & Loss by John Rosegrant

Also from Tuor son of Huor (thanks again!)

Notre Dame University Press has a 50% off sale through 11/30 (Code: 14GIVEBKS )

Tolkien among the Moderns by Ralph Wood
An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism, edited by Lewis Nicholson

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Hopkins Press has a 40% off sale through 12/8, Code: HHOL24

The Fairy Way of Writing: Shakespeare to Tolkien by Kevin Pask

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Rowman Littlefield has a 35% off sale through 12/15, Code: 24JOYSALE

Light beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work
The Ring & The Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings
Arda Reconstructed by Douglas Kane
Theology & Tolkien: Constructive Theology
Theology & Tolkien: Practical Theology
Myth, Magic, & Power in Tolkien’s Middle-earth by James Siburt
Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium by Mark Doyle
The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns by Christopher Butynskyi

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University of California Press has a 30% off sale, Code: HOLIDAY30

The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood by Kristin Thompson

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University of Missouri Press, 40% off sale, Code: HOLIDAY24

The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History by Lee Oser

Reading Fictional Languages
Edited by Israel Noletto, Jessica Norledge, Peter Stockwell
Edinburgh University Press

On sale for 50% off right now

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/b ... -fictional-languages.html

Contains a chapter by James Tauber, and other interesting looking ones that also touch upon Tolkien's languages. I have ordered a copy myself now.

Don't forget to order a copy of the 2025 Beyond Bree calendar, if you are interested - these are limited in supply now. Featuring art from Emily Austin, Matěj Čadil, Anke Eissmann, Miriam Ellis, Ergo, Spiros Gelekas, Christopher Gilson, Octo Kwan, Ruth Lacon, Wenjin Lu, Ted Nasmith, Gordon Palmer, and Kip Rasmussen.

Available to order worldwide, find paypal instructions at https://www.beyondbree.org/