Sounds like you have literally been raiding my bookshelves.

One of my foci during my masters degree was 19th century Russian literature. I have an abiding affinity for Dostoyevsky

The thing I find most disheartening about the announcement is the involvement of Peter Jackson’s creative team.

I really like Jackson’s films, but I really wish that we could get more variety in the approaches being put on screen.

I was recently asked what I think about Stephen Colbert’s announcement that he is going to make a Tolkien movie.

Honestly, I don’t mind having more adaptations of LotR available in popular media.

Okay, I think I may have figured something out (and I am probably pretty late to this realization): the people who comment on news stories with hateful comments are the same people who wanted to be good at riffing on movies like MST3K because they thought it would make them cool.

Only now, they feel like they get validation because bots and bottom-feeders just like any kind of hate in a comment section.

So it just gets worse and worse.

Okay, I think I may have figured something out (and I am probably pretty late to this realization): the people who comment on news stories with hateful comments are the same people who wanted to be good at riffing on movies like MST3K because they thought it would make them cool.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

You posted this three hours ago on Facebook. Have you made any progress since then?

Instead of posting outrage, post updates on what you are doing on the ground to organize your fellow senators to act, please.

Many congratulations!

A screen shot of the Tolkien Society’s YouTube page, showing thumbnails of a video list.

✨Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 videos are up on YouTube✨

If you missed the seminar or want to revisit some of the talks, head over to the Society’s YouTube page to relive the magic ✨

The deadline to submit a paper or presentation is by the end of the day today! Don’t miss out, I would love to see you there! #westmoot #tolkien #tolkiensociety

Congratulations!

Awesome, can’t wait for the interview!

Have you talked to Amon Hen to see if they want someone to review it? (I don’t know if they do it with an art book, but it’s worth a shot, I think)

Honestly, have been trying to find decent audio of it but I can’t

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Very honored to have a chapter (on ecology and worldbuilding) in this anthology.

The cat's out of the bag!!
My work is appearing in this very important incoming volume!!! It's been so hard keeping it secret for the last couple of years!!

Can we talk about it now??? It's been a highlight of my budding career to be asked to co-author a chapter with @joelmerriner.bsky.social. I'm sooo excited to read everyone's contributions, especially @mercuryreads.bsky.social ✨

I’m honoured to have a chapter in this volume on visualization, both on Tolkien’s visualizations as he composed his stories and on ways that viewers can imaginatively engage with his invented worlds through illustrations. I can’t wait to read the whole book!

Absolutely thrilled to be a part of this! Stay tuned for my chapter on the Medical Humanities 🎉

Honoured to be asked to co-write a chapter for this with the brilliant @mariebreta.bsky.social. 😄

Thrilled to have had the opportunity to write the chapter on Digital Humanities and I’m looking forward so much to reading the other chapters.

@dimitrafimi.bsky.social and @lukebshelton.bsky.social were excellent editors!

I'm beyond honored to have written the chapter on Theological Criticism for what will be a phenomenal book. Mazel Tov to @lukebshelton.bsky.social, @dimitrafimi.bsky.social, and my brilliant fellow-conributors. A huge step in a mammoth undertaking!

I have a chapter about politics in this book. It was a fun excuse to catch up on the Tolkien scholarship and think about how to synthesize it all

So happy to share that @dimitrafimi.bsky.social and I have submitted this project to the publisher.

I am very excited for the pieces in this volume to get into circulation because our authors worked diligently and put together some amazing chapters!

So happy to share that @dimitrafimi.bsky.social and I have submitted this project to the publisher.

I am very excited for the pieces in this volume to get into circulation because our authors worked diligently and put together some amazing chapters!

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Horrific. Trump’s federal agents shot and killed another person.

Republicans in control of Congress could put a stop to this chaos.

Enough. Get ICE out of Minnesota, stop funding this violence, and end the assault on our communities.

Picture of a crowd of hundreds participating in the general strike in Minneapolis, Minnesota, today.

Photo posted on FB of the crowd in Minneapolis today. It refreshed before I could get the name of the original poster.

Proud of this city!