r/tolkienfans↗
Tolkien: LOTR, Hobbit, Silmarillion, etc.
Welcome to r/tolkienfans! This subreddit is a space for the Tolkien nerds of reddit to debate and discuss the whole Tolkien mythos. We emphasise serious discussion here over jokey/meme-based posts. That's not to say you have to be a LOTR scholar or Tolkien academic to post or enjoy this subreddit, but that we'd prefer mature topics of discussion here.
443k subscribers249 posts / mo in Sep 2026154 authors / mosince 2009
r/tolkienfans has 443k members (+7.5% over the last 12 months). It gets about 249 posts a month from 154 people. Top topics: TolkienFan Bereich, Middle-earth Mythology and Tolkien Reading Order.
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- TolkienFan Bereich6.4%
- Middle-earth Mythology6.1%
- Tolkien Reading Order6.0%
- Middle-earth Elves5.2%
- Middle-earth Rings3.9%
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- Tolkiengateway
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Substack
- Reactor
- The Tolkien Estate
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