Queer and Back Again
Tom EmanuelQueering faith and fantasy in the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Oxford Tolkien Seminar
Hello, all!
Last month, on 6 June 2025, I was invited to Oxford University to give a lecture as part of their monthly Oxford Tolkien Seminar. The Oxford Tolkien Network has uploaded video of last term’s presentations to their YouTube chann...
Of pride, Pride, and Pentecost
Going back to the fourth century CE, Christian theologians have sometimes referred to the Fall of Adam and Eve as a felix culpa, a “happy fault.” This is because—so the logic goes—it created the necessary conditions for the redemption broug...
Fantastic Architecture
Apart from Oxford, I can think of few better places to study J.R.R. Tolkien than the University of Glasgow. For one thing, the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic is an ideal scholarly and collegial container for cutting-edge research into...
An Aspirational Cultus?
I have a new article out!
You can find “An Aspirational Cultus? Tolkien Fandom at the Borders of Belief” in the latest issue of Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature. The theoretical...
The Dream Is Over, Pt. 2
Lately I’ve been sharing some of my favorite pieces I’ve written about music for other venues in 2024. To wrap things up, here’s the second in a pair of essays about the Beatles’ breakup as seen from each side of the Lennon-McCartney partne...
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Minister. Theologian. Tolkien scholar. PhD on The Lord of the Rings and Post-Christianity @ University of Glasgow. Dad. He/him. All views my own.
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