Parma-kenta: Tolkien Transactions

I follow a lot of web-sites, blogs and discussion boards with more or less regular Tolkien-related material, and I have long been sharing the best of this with my fellow posters in the Tolkien Usenet groups, rec.arts.books.tolkien and alt.fan.tolkien. (If you do not have a dedicated newsreader set up that can handle the above links, the groups are also available from Google groups: rec.arts.books.tolkien and alt.fan.tolkien.) Some time in the spring of 2010, this sharing found a more stable form in the series of posts that I call the Tolkien Transactions.

The Tolkien Transactions is an on-line review journal of on-line Tolkien content. Admission is strictly controlled and all content must comply with the three criteria of selection:

I must have seen it
It must be Tolkien-related
I must deem it interesting (or amusing) enough to include it

These criteria are brutally enforced ;-)

The issues that have been made so far are:

Issue	Date	Parmar-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LXVII — February 2016	2016-03-04	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LXVI — January 2016	2016-02-03	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LXV — December 2015	2016-01-02	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LXIV — November 2015	2015-12-13	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LXIII — October 2015	2015-11-07	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LXII — September 2015	2015-10-04	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LXI — August 2015	2015-09-01	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LX — July 2015	2015-08-01	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LIX — June 2015	2015-07-08	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LVIII — May 2015	2015-06-14	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LVII — April 2015	2015-05-17	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LVI — March 2015	2015-04-06	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LV — February 2015	2015-03-01	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LIV — January 2015	2015-02-01	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LIII — December 2014	2015-01-02	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
Tolkien Transactions LII — November 2014	201X-12-06	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society
More than a delay ... At this point, being extremely busy at other things forced me to take a break for a few months, missing the transactions for three months, August through October 2014	2014-10-13	Parma-kenta
Tolkien Transactions LI — July 2014	2014-08-22	Parma-kenta	Tolkien Society

Issue	Date	Blog	News	Google Groups
At this point, I ceased posting my transactions to the newsgroups, and instead posted only to my own Parma-kenta blog and the Tolkien Society website, where I had been honoured to be invited to post, starting from the previous issue (number 50). The main reason for this decision was merely that it was becoming increasingly cumbersome to produce the transactions in several formats, and in this way I could move on to only produce it in HTML.
Tolkien Transactions L — June 2014	201X-MM-DD	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions IL — May 2014	2014-06-09	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XLVIII — April 2014	2014-05-18	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XLVII — March 2014	2014-04-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XLVI — February 2014	2014-03-13	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XLV — January 2014	2014-02-09	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XLIV — December 2013	2014-01-03	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XLIII — November 2013	2013-12-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XLII — October 2013	2013-11-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XLI — September 2013	2013-10-06	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XL — August 2013	2013-09-05	Parma-kenta	News	Free Webuse.net
Tolkien Transactions XXXIX — July 2013	2013-08-03	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXXVIII — June 2013	2013-07-04	Parma-kenta	News	Cannot be found on Google Groups
Tolkien Transactions XXXVII — May 2013	2013-06-03	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXXVI — April 2013	2013-05-02	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXXV — March 2013	2013-04-07	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXXIV — February 2013	2013-03-02	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXXIII — January 2013	2013-02-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXXII — December 2012	2013-01-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXXI — November 2012	2012-12-02	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXX — October 2012	2012-11-02	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXIX — September 2012	2012-10-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXVIII — August 2012	2012-09-02	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXVII — July 2012	2012-08-03	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXVI — June 2012	2012-07-02	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXV — May 2012	2012-06-04	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXIV — April 2012	2012-05-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXIII — March 2012	2012-04-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXII — February 2012	2012-03-09	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XXI — January 2012	2012-02-02	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XX — December 2011	2012-01-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XIX — November 2011	2011-12-05	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XVIII — October 2011	2011-11-05	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XVII — September 2011	2011-10-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XVI — August 2011	2011-09-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XV — July 2011	2011-08-01	Parma-kenta	News	--
Tolkien Transactions XIV — June 2011	2011-07-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XIII — May 2011	2011-06-07	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XII — April 2011	2011-05-18	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions XI — March 2011	2011-04-04	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions X — February 2011	2011-03-06	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions IX — January 2011	2011-02-08	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions VIII — December 2010	2011-01-03	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions VII — November 2010 Then, encouraged by a post by Steve Hayes, ‘19 Reasons You Should Blog And Not Just Tweet’, I created my own blog, the Parma-kenta, which I now use to also host the Tolkien Transactions	2010-12-01	Parma-kenta	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions VI — October 2010 Larry Swain very kindly offered to host the Tolkien Transactions on his blog, The Ruminate and did so with this issue¹	2010-10-31	The Ruminate	News	Google
Tolkien Transactions V — September 2010	2010-10-03		News	Google
Tolkien Transactions IV — August 2010	2010-08-31		News	Google
Tolkien Transactions III — June–July 2010	2010-08-001		News	Google
Tolkien Transactions II — May 2010	2010-05-29		News	Google
Tolkien Transactions — April 2010	2010-05-07		News	Google
Earlier stuff
News from the 'net — January–March 2010	2010-04-04		News	Google
New Links	2009-10-23		News	Google

Note 1:^ I do feel a little uncomfortable about taking Larry up on his very kind offer for only one issue and then start my own blog. Mea culpa! Back

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