Writing from Ithilien
RobinTolkien scholarship (conferences, publishing, bibliographies!); addicted to discursive footnotes and exploring the fuzzy boundaries between analysis and reader response; childless cat lady (go Queen Berúthiel, and queer feminist, autist, atheist.
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AI Issues
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Decided if I’m going to keep posting about AI issues (which I am), I need an image! (Search term: surveillance).
Personal example #1:
So I got the following email this morning (sender name, AI name...
Éowyn: The Expanded Edition
Éowyn, The Lord of the Rings, The Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring, and Hild the cat! My Funko Pop, my books, my cat (well, I’m her human), and my photograph.
So during the last six months, I’ve been pulling together the bits and p...
AI Enshittification on Substack
I do not (and will never) use any AI to write anything (not even a grocery list).
I am never going to use an AI to determine whether or not something was written by or with the assistance of AI (here on Substack or anywhere else).
I do...
The Middle Ages in the Modern World
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Call for Papers: The Middle Ages in the Modern World
The 6th international MAMO conference will explore the ways in which the Middle Ages have been imagined, invoked, forged, refashioned, used and abus...
2027 International Congress on Medieval Studies (Hybrid)
Tolkien at Kalamazoo is sponsoring five sessions and co-sponsoring four additional sessions for the 2027 International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICM) at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). The conference is a hybrid one and is...
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Life-long sff fan, retired English prof now independent scholar. I began this Substack to promote virtual and hybrid conferences relating to Tolkien scholars. But I am now exploring ideas for my own projects and sharing what others are writing.
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