You forget you’re dyslexic until you have to read picture books out loud and suddenly Macca the Alpaca is advertising danger instead of averting danger 🫠

Fun! 5 authors by whom I’ve read at least 5 books: J.R.R. Tolkien Virginia Woolf Megan Whalen Turner Robert Macfarlane Elena Ferrante

Elrond beating Timothée and Leo for a BAFTA is beautiful to me ❤️🏆

Ophelia AND Cynthia Lennon?? Morfydd Clark is going to be a major part of my 2026 and 2028

Niche complaint but one of my podcasts interviews NT Wright and every time I have to listen to this man talk about the Bible I feel like the Lord is testing me 😂🫠

#Westmoot26 welcomes Tom Racine, a cartoonist & author from San Diego, as a special guest! His lifelong love of all things #Tolkien dates to reading “The Hobbit” & “Lord of the Rings” as a wee lad, & his book “Doomed to Die: An A-Z of Death in Tolkien” was published in 2025. #westmoot #intothewest

Me, a Protestant on Ash Wednesday, thinking once again that the Catholics get to have all the fun

To all the friends and friends of friends reaching out to say “you would hate this movie” (lol if you’ve been following my complaining you know which movie) keep it coming you’re right I would hate it and I will gladly listen to your rant about how stupid it was 💯

😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!) A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭 Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍

All the 🇦🇺 souvenirs made it home 🍷

Flying 🇦🇺 -> 🇺🇸 is an obstacle course of how many times must I go through security to get home

YEAH THEY DID!!!!!!!

Ahem.

Last day in 🇦🇺

Trying to catch 🇺🇸 Olympic updates in 🇦🇺 is proving trickier than I thought 😂

I drove by her house all the time when I lived in Maryland. She saved our birds, and a lot more ❤️

Some excellent points by @tolkienpop.substack.com in response to “Christian-only” readings of Tolkien’s work 👇🏻

Holding Tolkien nerds gently by the hand and saying “yes there are Christian things in the legendarium but there are other things too”

Lay down Your sweet and weary head Night is falling You have come to journey's end Sleep now Dream of the ones who came before They are calling From across the distant shore

I probably should not delight in scathing reviews as much as I am but I am pretty pleased that the reviews of Wuthering Heights get at a deeper issue in the film adaption that is a broader cultural problem: entertainment cannot come at the expense of critical thinking.

Very excited for this!

📢 #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’s 4 year old movie pick was Princess Diaries 2 and my big take away from this viewing was that Genovia has an Independence Day. Which means they were at some point an occupied country and then liberated and I would like to know that history. Who occupied Genovia?? ‘Fess up, European nations!

This was followed by her disbelief that I had seen the animated Robin Hood… my girl:

My nephew (2) can’t say “auntie” so I’m just Clare like we’re coworkers and he keeps yelling from the other end of the cubicles CLARE LOOK CLARE my dude what do you have the Q4 estimates???

Not my 4 year old niece shocked that I had seen Mary Poppins before

And that’s a wrap on Sydney 🎭

Today is about staying awake 😅☕️🇦🇺

A few favorites from the Dangerously Modern exhibit at the Art Gallery New South Wales

Westmoot, the #Tolkien Society's annual event in the USA, returns in May! The programme is filling up with talks, art, gaming and more. And special guests Sara Brown and Kristine Larsen will be joining us. Book now at www.tolkiensociety.org/events/westm...

Announcing the Gamers Guild at #Westmoot26! This year, Westmoot will feature a game room, which will be open through the event with both scheduled sessions and opportunities to drop in! #westmoot #intothewest #gaming

Made it 🇦🇺

I finished the 4 episodes of the new Bridgerton season but I was like 5 minutes into episode 1 when I realized I could just be watching Ever After and not be disappointed

SLAMS LATOP SHUT UNTIL AUSTRALIA

Forever my favorite Catherine O’Hara role, as cliche as it might seem. She was truly fantastic in everything.

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

Really enjoying this podcast! I just started a Northanger Abbey reread so I am primed for this content!

In the perpetual ebb and flow of PhD emotions, it seems to be going well rn and I’m trying to enjoy that 🤣

New albums from Dermot Kennedy and Noah Kahan this year and my sad girl spring is about to thrive with this soundtrack

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👀 You won’t want to miss this all-star keynote! 👀 We hope you’ll join us at Westmoot for fellowship, hope, and courage. Be a light in dark places!

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Thrilled @prancingponypod.bsky.social is covering one of my favorite off -the-beaten-path writings of the legendarium, Tal-Elmar: open.spotify.com/episode/6LXf...

Everyone deserves to be free. Today is Dr. Angela Davis's birthday and we're reminded in these trying times that freedom can't be won alone. Show up for yourself and your community even when things feel hard. We're stronger together.⁩

Can’t attend Westmoot in person but still want to present your paper? Now you can! Submit to present remotely 👇🏻

The Amon Govaethas smial will be at Westmoot! If you live in the DC/DMV area, we want to meet you!!

This looks like a fun virtual exploration of The Hobbit: www.rosenbach.org/programs/bib...