Episode 58: Lesser-trod Paths with Clare Moore

May 3, 2023 / jude

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Episode 58: Lesser-trod Paths with Clare Moore

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Clare Moore can be found on Twitter: @claremoore914

YouTube presentation: “Clare Moore – ‘The Problem of Pain: Portraying Physical Disability in Tolkien’s Fantasy’” Originally presented at The Tolkien Society Summer Seminar, July 3, 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSj_Z5jy9w (Accessed Feb 24, 2023)

A List of Clare’s publications on “Tolkienists.org” website:

https://tolkienists.org/clare-moore/ (Accessed Feb 24, 2023)

Sources mentioned this episode:

Ria Cheyne: Disability, Literature, Genre: Representations and Affect in Contemporary Fiction

Open Source JStore link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvsn3pp7 (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Irina Metzler’s lecture: Tolkien and Disability (From the Tolkien Society Summer Seminar in 2016)

From the Tolkien Society’s YouTube: https://youtu.be/epx1d4fzmmw (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Lois Bragg, disability studies scholar:

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Lois-Bragg-2052429775 (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Dr. Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien scholar:

http://dimitrafimi.com/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Her book Clare mentioned: Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, November 2008): https://dimitrafimi.com/books/tolkien-race-and-cultural-history-2/

Dr. Verlyn Flieger, Tolkien scholar:

https://english.umd.edu/directory/verlyn-flieger (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Victoria Holtz Wodzak: Tolkien’s Gimpy Heroes

From Mythlore, 10-15-2018, Volume 37, Number 1: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol37/iss1/7/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Victoria Holtz Wodzak: Tolkien Sidelined: Constructing the Non-Combatant in The Children of Hurin

From Mythlore, 4-15-2015, Volume 33, Number 2: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiThreKudL-AhUqI0QIHVEcAGIQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdc.swosu.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1021%26context%3Dmythlore&usg=AOvVaw3sRCH2eSTO5sKMrbdmkkDa (Accessed April 30, 2023)

John Garth’s essay: The Chronology of Creation: How J.R.R. Tolkien Misremembered the Beginnings of his Mythology

Found in the book: “The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien” edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine

Author’s website: https://johngarth.co.uk/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Megan Whalen Turner: The Queen’s Thief series

Author’s website: http://meganwhalenturner.org/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Intisar Khanani: The Dauntless Path series

Author’s website: https://booksbyintisar.com/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)

Episode 57: Fairy Fan Fiction

April 5, 2023 / jude

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Episode 57: Fairy Fan Fiction

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Citations

Rateliff, J. D. (2007). The History of The Hobbit (Vols. 1-‐2). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Tolkien, J. (1937). The Hobbit. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Tolkien, J. (1986). The Shaping of Middle-‐Earth. (C. Tolkien, Ed.) Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Garth, John. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth. HarperCollins, 2011.

Episode 56: Bandaids Can’t Fix Arda

March 1, 2023 / jude

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Episode 56: Bandaids Can’t Fix Arda

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Tolkien Society, Oxonmoot 2023 registration:

From their website: “Early Bird offer: enter the coupon code WIZARD2023 at the time of booking to receive £10 off your registration price. This coupon is valid until midnight on 28 February 2023 (UK time).” https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonmoot-2023/

Citations

J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, “Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: Appendix D.
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion,
J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Númenórean Catastrophe & End of ‘Physical’ Arda” (edited by Michaël Devaux with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien and Carl F. Hostetter), in J.R.R. Tolkien, l’effigie des Elfes, La Feuille de la Compagnie
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King
Verlyn Flieger, Splintered Light (Revised Edition), 19. “Filled with Clear Light”, pp. 160-1
J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 131, (undated, written late 1951), p. 149
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth’s Ring, “Part Four. Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth”
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth

Episode 55: The (THREE?!) Kinslayings

February 1, 2023 / jude

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Episode 55: The (THREE?!) Kinslayings

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Tolkien Society, Oxonmoot 2023 registration:

Clark, David. Kin-slaying in the “Poetic Edda”: The End of the World? Viking and Medieval Scandinavia Vol. 3 (2007), pp. 21-41

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45019134 (Accessed January 2, 2023)

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Apple Books edition.

Tolkien Gateway entry for Fëanor

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/F%C3%ABanor (Accessd Jan 2, 2023)

Tolkien Gateway entry for Kinslaying at Alqualondë

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Kinslaying_at_Alqualond%C3%AB (Accessd Jan 2, 2023)

Tolkien Gateway entry for Second Kinslaying

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Second_Kinslaying (Accessd Jan 2, 2023)

Tolkien Gateway entry for Third Kinslaying

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Third_Kinslaying

(Accessd Jan 2, 2023)

Episode 54: Lesser-trod Paths with Wizard Way Kris

January 4, 2023 / jude

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Episode 54: Lesser-trod Paths with Wizard Way Kris

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Citations

Athraplay RPG actual-play podcast info and audition form:

http://www.tinyurl.com/athraplay

How to find Wizardwaykris-

Website: https://elf-boi.com/

WizardWay Merch (Spring): https://wizardwaykris.creator-spring.com/

TikTok: @wizardwaykris

You Tube: Wizard Way Kris https://www.youtube.com/c/wizardwaykris

Twitter: @WizardWayKris

Instagram: @wizardwaykris

“You all are welcome here” merch: https://www.donmarshall72sstore.com/

Dawn Walls-Thumma’s website: http://dawnfelagund.com/

Episode 53: Interview with Dr. Sarah Schaefer and Dr. William Fliss, co-curators of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript

December 7, 2022 / jude

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Episode 53: Interview with Dr. Sarah Schaefer and Dr. William Fliss, co-curators of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript

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Thanks to our guests, Dr. Sarah C. Schaefer and Dr. William M. Fliss, the co-curator’s of “J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript” at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University.

Exhibition dates: August 19 – December 23, 2022

Exhibition website: https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/tolkien.php

Dr. Sarah C. Schaefer

Assistant Professor, Modern Art, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Find Sarah on Twitter: @sarahcschaefer

Website: https://www.sarahcschaefer.com/

Check out her book!: “Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination” published by Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gustave-dor-and-the-modern-biblical-imagination-9780190075811?cc=us&lang=en&

Dr. William M. Fliss

Archivist, Special Collections and University Archives, Raynor Memorial Libraries, Marquette University, Milwaukee

Curator of the J. R. R. Tolkien collection at Marquette’s Raynor Memorial Library: https://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/tolkien.php

Connect with Bill on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TolkienMarquette

Check out The J.R.R. Tolkien Fandom Oral History Collection and schedule your interview with Bill!: https://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/Mss/JRRT/fandomoh.php

Exhibition catalog:

“J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript”

https://shophaggerty.com/product/j-r-r-tolkien-the-art-of-the-manuscript-catalog-softcover-second-edition/