Tolkien by the Numbers
Sometimes Dawn Walls-Thumma, sometimes Dawn Felagund, focusing on Tolkien and fan studies using textual analysis and other quantitative methodologies, founder of the Silmarillion Writers' Guild.
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"The Rings of Power" Is a Ripple in the Tolkien Fanfic World
My latest column for Cultus Dispatches is up on the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild. Cultus Dispatches is our monthly fan studies column, named after Tolkien’s reference to his fans as “my deplorable cultus.” The focus of the column right now i...
Friday Data Night: Canon Pick-and-Mix
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