387 – We Can Work it Out

Join The Man of the West and The Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we near the halfway point of our 10-part series on Aldarion and Erendis from Unfinished Tales.

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Stef Midlock, Jude Vais, Sara Brown, and Kristine Larsen share a selfie after their session at Oxonmoot 2025!

The wonderful audience at our session!

Sara Brown and Kristine Larsen before the session at Oxonmoot 2025!

Stef Midlock, Jude Vais, Sara Brown, and Kristine Larsen share a group shot after their session at Oxonmoot 2025!

It was so fun! Thank you to our guests @aranelparmadil.bsky.social and @jrrtastrochick.bsky.social, you were both spectacular and hilarious!

Thank you to the @tolkiensociety.org for having us back! 💚

Thank you to all the wonderful folks who came and tuned in online! We appreciate you!

#oxonmoot

Selfie style group photo of Stef, Jude, Sara Brown and Kristine Larsen at Oxonmoot 2025

Group photo of Stef, Jude, Sara Brown and Kristine Larsen in front of our slides at Oxonmoot 2025

Photo of the room with our wonderful attendees at Oxonmoot.

This month we discuss Oxonmoot and our session “Tolkien’s Try-hard Troublemakers” with Dr. Kristine Larsen and @aranelparmadil.bsky.social. Thank you Kris and Sara for joining us!

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For the slides, check out the episode on YouTube: youtu.be/i--2o37rayM

Thank you ☺️

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

With @shaungunner.bsky.social, Brian Sibley, Jay Johnstone, and @aranelparmadil.bsky.social, making fools of ourselves in “Just a minute in Middle-earth” at #Oxonmoot!
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Today is the day!

Folks attending #Oxonmoot in person or online, come join us at 11:00 am BST for “Athrabeth Podcast Live: Tolkien's Try-hard Troublemakers” with the extremely cool @aranelparmadil.bsky.social and @jrrtastrochick.bsky.social!

See you soon @tolkiensociety.org!

The rock god that is James Dean Bradfield 💗

The One hundred and forty-sixth Roving Ranger The Roving Ranger #146 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.

Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.

Including:

Parma Eldalamberon 12; Tolkien Fest; Sarehole Mill; New York Tolkien Conference; Tolkien Thing; Finnish Summer Moot; Lasse Lanta; Verlyn Flieger's Latest; Horn & the Sword; Old Noakes and more...

Omg 💀

For #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday on 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃: everyone should read the amazing text by @aranelparmadil.bsky.social “𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥”: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦!

Note: It won the TS award for the best article in 2023.

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Thanks Mina!

congressman brandon gill saying "civilized people don't eat like this" about zohran mamdani eating some rice with his hands

i know he's just finding excuses to be racist but it's still funny to be like this when we live in the country of the chili cheese fry, the walking taco, the fried oreo, the loaded potato skin, etc. there's nothing more american than lighting up a big messy pile of starchy goop with your hands

If you haven’t registered yet for Moothub to attend Mythmoot online, there’s still time.

To register you just sign up via Blackberry at this link:
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Mythmoot XII June 19-22, 2025 - Signum University Mythmoot XII, Signum's annual speculative literature conference, is June 19-22, 2025 at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA.

Here is the link to the event page on our website
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Let’s spread the word and get folks into our virtual space for Mythmoot!

If you haven’t registered yet for Moothub to attend Mythmoot online, there’s still time.

To register you just sign up via Blackberry at this link:
blackberry.signumuniversity.org/moots/mythmo...

I’m really looking forward to Signum University Mythmoot next weekend! I will be giving my keynote on Friday, as well as doing a special lunchtime session from the event just for the online folks, which will be a Q&A, AMA, and general chat with whoever attends the zoom session.

Hey - I'm so sorry I missed this message. There's a new book coming out at the end of this year on queer readings of Tolkien, which will really help. Otherwise, go on The Journal of Tolkien Research (it's open, free access) and do a search for those terms. I know there's some good stuff in there.

Ooh thanks!

Thank you!

Up now on JTR: 'Tolkien & Psychology'. Papers by @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @cameronbourquein.bsky.social, @drfairylelie.bsky.social, Mareike Huber, Kris Larsen, Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen & Bo Kampmann Walther, Ali Mirzabayati, Dawn Walls-Thumma, & me! scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

Pope Chocolate IV. I’m ok with that!

I’m so sorry for this news, Diane. 🫂

Wonderful! I’m glad it resonated with you.

Thanks both!

*bows. You’re welcome 😁

The Eagles are coming!

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I've been inactive on here for a few weeks and missed sharing this when it first went live. Go give the most recent Athrabeth episode a listen. @aranelparmadil.bsky.social does a fantastic job breaking down feminist scholarship on Tolkien, past, present, and (hopefully) future!