John Garth
@JohnGarthWriter
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Writer, speaker, award-winner. Books in 18 languages on Tolkien’s life and work. Contact me via https://t.co/rhWKa51cqi. Support my work via Steady: https://t.co/ONmfKXJjnJ
England, United Kingdom
Joined September 2009
Want to read more of my award-winning work on #Tolkien? Join the good people helping me #crowdfund to write. We hit our first target so here's a new one – plus a new mid-price membership. And you could make a fellow fan happy with a #gift membership.
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RT @SketchesbyBoze: tech companies keep drawing their names from Lord of the Rings (Palantir, which spies on people; Anduril, which makes k…
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I've ditched #Microsoft's entirely unwelcome and intrusive #AI #Copilot by switching my subscription to 365 Family Classic (£20 cheaper). I don't need AI to write, thanks. And if I'd had AI all along, I'd never have learned the skills I love. AI is not an aid, it's a poison.
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RT @PeterMGilliver: I have. If you care about music scholarship, please consider doing likewise, and sharing this.
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RT @jacqueboatman: “…I believe that in creating his mythology, Tolkien salvaged from the wreck of history much that it is good still to hav…
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RT @SketchesbyBoze: I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake u…
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RT @AnneLouiseAvery: Bloomsbury, 1933, and each week my father & his pals were going to meetings & marches to try to do something, anything…
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RT @unherd: Do you really want an AI assistant on your Word document criticising every letter you type? Read @questingvole on the latest…
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Word 365: "'Upgraded' to features I neither need nor want, colossally wasteful of computing power and damaging to the environment, at best experimental or unpredictable, and dependent on stealing copyright material from artists and writers. I'm charged £25 more a year for this."
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RT @SmallholdingH: With #StormÉowyn currently battering Ireland and Great Britain, another #Tolkien connection this morning is an enjoyable…
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Today is the birthday of Francis Morgan, the man #Tolkien called ‘my second father’. On my Steady crowdfunding page I've posted a previously unseen photo plus an extract from my preface to @JosManuelFerrn1's biography of Fr Francis.
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RT @CameronBorgQeen: My #Mairon paper is published (link in 🧵). It was presented at Tolkien@UVM and GIFCon in 2023 and at Oxonmoot in 2024.…
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RT @iconawrites: The issue with people “letting AI do the reading for them” is that a society that does not read is a society that can’t th…
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RT @BlogTolkien: To the Professor! Happy birthday to J.R.R. #Tolkien who, on 25 January 1973, sent a letter and this photo to a fan, Patric…
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RT @TolkienWonder: In celebration of Tolkien's Birthday -- here are three of my favorite books to read to get to know the Professor and his…
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RT @charlotte_m_z: 2/2.... In case you're wondering, he is the war poet William Noel Hodgson (right). The other is Tolkien.
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RT @charlotte_m_z: Two boys, born #OnThisDay in 1892 and 1893, both gifted writers. Both won scholarships to Oxford, both served on the Som…
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