The one thing I haven’t seen addressed about the Odyssey movie. It talks about the loss of literacy as something tragic, and a culture which does not have literacy as barbarian. but the power of the poems prob. comes from originally being oral. That’s why Phemias is a rapper…

What happens when some of a young Tolkien's early Elvish (Gnomish) words aren't really what they seem? Reflections on some of the linguistic seeds of Tolkien's poignant and masterful mythology... #Tolkien #Silmarillion #Philology www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NH...

Lexical Palimpsests: Old English and Old Norse Loan Words in Tolkien's Gnomish Lexicon (1917)

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Haven‘t seen the film yet, but already need to make it about #Tolkien. My thoughts on some connections of #TheOdyssey and Tolkien in the first of two parts now online with @thetolkienist.com

Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉@thetolkienist.com · 3w ago

NEW GUEST POST 🎉 Thanks to Christian S. Trenk for this excellent post! "With Nolan’s 'Odyssey' hitting cinemas around the globe this month, one of the most influential texts of European cultural history is back in the spotlight – so why not make it about Tolkien & The Lord of the Rings?!...

If I were to imagine Middle-earth as a tapestry, it would be woven with every color. So too should be its adaptations. So too should be its fan communities. You are welcome here. 🫶

@haskoliislands.bsky.social scholar Justine Vignolles speaking on " #Trauma and #Intertextuality in Tolkien's #Silmarillion": comparisons of war experiences by #Tolkien and Medieval Icelandic characters, including important swords and rings.

Luke Sewell compares Tolkien's #Turin, Egger's #Nosferatu and the biblical #Samson in terms of dyscatastrophic storytelling - another #Tolkien paper at IMC Leeds this morning.

" #Belliphonic in Tolkien's Legendarium" was the topic of Ali Mirzabayati's presentation, considering how #Tolkien depicts the soundscape of battle in #Middle-earth.

Rafael Pascual of @universidadgranada.bsky.social considered "A Metrical Exception in Beowulf: Folklore and Comic Effect", building on and expanding the observations by #Tolkien on the matter.

Had great fun talking about the Dunlendings in The War of the Rohirrim yesterday at the #Tolkien in modern media round table at @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Frances Ringwood and Michèle duPlessis-Hay speak on „Woodlands in Britain, Medieval Poetry, and Tolkien‘s Middle-earth“, comparing various forests and their usage in #Tolkien and his precursors, incl. Aldarion as an eco-conscious lumberjack - another day at @imc-leeds.bsky.social.

The day in #TolkienAtLeeds ends with @erikjampa.bsky.social speaking on „Elvo-Indo-European and the End of the Third Age", exploring a plethora of linguistic inspirations for #Tolkien conceptualizing his Secondary World. He proposes (among others) why he called Middle-earth „roughly 6000 years old“.

„Medieval Timekeeping in Middle-earth and Valinor“ is the contribution of #TolkienAtLeeds co-organizer @jrrtastrochick.bsky.social. #Tolkien considered leapyears, necessarily (!) complicating date conversions into our world. What he didn't consider will be on #JournalofTolkienResearch next week.

@gingerprof.bsky.social continues #TolkienAtLeeds with „Shifting Narrative #Temporalities in Tolkien‘s First Age“, highlighting the various framing techniques and callbacks that create the illusion of multi-layered temporality in the #Silmarillion. #CamiForKeynoteAtBirmingham2027

#TolkienAtLeeds continues with an examination of #QueerTemporalities in Tolkien‘s Middle-earth: to Pippin, time management in Gondor is queer when a bell structures the day, rather than his individual hunger and six non-fixes #hobbit meals, argues Yvette Kisor. #SecondBreakfast #Tolkien

Amy Amendt-Raduege examines #time itself in the works of #Tolkien in „‚In No Time‘: Writing Time in Timeless Space“ next for #TolkienAtLeeds, retracing different understandings and perceptions of time, and their echoes in Middle-earth.

The inimitable @aranelparmadil.bsky.social of @signumuniversity.bsky.social traced „Humour and Language in Tolkien‘s Lesser-Known Poetry“, including copious amounts of singing, and proving the detailed philological application of #Tolkien in his own poetry. #TolkienAtLeeds

„Constructing and Absolving Temporality with #Tolkien Poetry-Songs“ is Lyra Keran Zhang‘s contribution to #TolkienAtLeeds: poetry-songs serve multiple functions, one of them is the contextualizing of/through ancient/epic history and myth.

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social scholar @mercuryreads.bsky.social reflects on #Tolkien and his characters #cruising Faerie, torn between artistic hobby and domestic duties, among others. From "you cannot always be torn in two" to "reunited in the end". #TolkienAtLeeds #LeafByNiggle

@annasmol.bsky.social examines „Multitemporal Drama in #Tolkien Fiction“, and how the #NotionClubPapers merge multiple worlds and times across Secondary (and Tertiary) Creations. A great start to Day Two of #TolkienAtLeeds. #Temporalities

In „Ecological (In)Fidelity in Middle-earth as Played by Aotearoa“, @roryq.bsky.social investigates how #Tolkien descriptions of nature in his works are an integral part of the narrative rather than plot distractions, and how well #PeterJackson adapted these at #TolkienAtLeeds.

Christopher Vaccaro (resplendent in pink!) continues #TolkienAtLeeds with chat #Tolkien knew about women-centric spaces and discourse in „Beguines, Nuns, and Entwives: Lesbian-identified Spaces in Middle-earth“ – entwives as a textual not-quite-Leerstelle, inhabited solely by women.

@ashiggins.bsky.social explores 'The Inner Consistency of Philological Reality' in Tolkien's invented languages at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. He reminds us that Tolkien was interested in more than just *narrative* consistency. #TolkienAtLeeds

Meine Kumpeline hat ihre Haustür gesegnet.

NEW TOLKIEN JUST OUT: delighted to see “JRR #Tolkien’s Soul’s Ward: A critical edition of his unpublished translation of the early Middle English homily Sawles Warde” edited by Andoni Cossio and Nelson Goering: academic.oup.com/res/advance-... Chuffed to have played a minor role in this 1/3

*nodding sagely, adjusting my glasses* but is it art?

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride month 🏳️‍🌈 Thrilled to announce that the special issue “Asexuality in Tolkien’s Legendarium” co-edited with @roryq.bsky.social is now published on the Journal of Tolkien Research: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

Not AI. Penguin Random House created an unburnable copy of the Handmaid's Tale. Printed on fire-resistant paper and bound with a flame retardant cover, the book was auctioned off. The still is from the promotional video where Atwood took a flamethrower to it. Fuck Gilead. #booksky

Don't forget - you can still submit abstracts on "Environment, the World around us, and the Connatural World in Tolkien’s Works" by 31st May! 💙📚 #envhum #envhist #Tolkien #lit #fantasy #CfP

Tolkien Seminar DTG@tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢 #CfP for the 22nd #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Environmental Education Centre in Augsburg and WTP 📜Environment, the World around us, and the Connatural World in Tolkien’s Works #envhum #ecocrit www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/55214/tolkie...

"Today, the human desire for fullness of life is at risk of being misled by […] technology that promises to free us from all weakness, and models of wellbeing that leave behind entire populations." Pope Leo only quotes Tolkien once in his encyclical but he's literally describing a Ring of Power.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜