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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Cruising The Archive of Our Own: Mapping Perversions in Tolkien Tagging
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“Cruising The Archive of Our Own” (paragraphs 1-3):
When I started this project in 2018, I focused on “F/F,” “female slash fiction” or “femslash,” stories about erotic/romantic/sexual relationships betwe...
Recommended: Tom Emanuel's PhD Thesis
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Queer and Back Again
The Tale We've Fallen Into
Twenty-five years after I read The Lord of the Rings for the first time, in the spring of 2001, the PhD thesis I wrote about it is now freely availab...
Tolkien Society Tolkien's Invented Languages
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Tolkien Society Seminar 2026: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
Deadline for proposals: 31st July 2026 (Submit Proposal Here)
{NOTE: No indication about time deadline, i.e. what time in their timezone, so...
Asexuality and Aromanticism in Tolkien's Legendarium
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Volume 24, Issue 1: Asexuality and Aromanticism in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Editors: Clare Moore and Rory Queripel
Introduction: Asexuality and Aromanticism in Tolkien’s Works by Clare Moore and...
Pope Leo, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Peter Thiel
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A number of Tolkien fans/academics I know immediately noticed that Pope Leo’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, quotes from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf’s advice given at at “The Last Debate”...
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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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