📢 #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

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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

FROM ONE REVISION TO THE NEXT

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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...

I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare: “the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”

We want your paper submissions! Come talk to a room full of nerds about your specific Tolkien obsession!

Nothing but good wishes to the young man working at Lidl who, upon seeing that my reusable grocery bags are all National Book Festival bags, asked me my favorite author and when I said Tolkien and then when I asked who he would recommend said Lovecraft 😝

This exhibit looks AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said the foundations would shake. We’re shaking them. Justice won’t wait. Freedom won’t ask. So we rise. We resist. We walk out. January 20 @ 2 PM local time. Walk out for a Free America. #FreeAmerica #FreeAmericaWalkout

Okay but I actually wanted just like a little bit more hockey in that show?

quote with your purple art! 💜 #melian #silm #silmarillion #art #tolkien #lordoftherings #lotr #silmart #GoldenAtreidesArt

Good morning, I am once again reminding you all that we are going to keep pushing and we are going to win:

Nominations are now open for the #Tolkien Society Awards 2026! Please submit your nominations in any of the 4 categories: Best Article, Best Artwork, Best Book, and Best Online Content. We will then draw up a shortlist for members to pick the winners. www.tolkiensociety.org/2026/01/nomi...

Someone on here knows someone who knows someone who has a cousin and can help a sister out 👇🏻

Send us your activity ideas for Westmoot! What do you want to do? What keeps us nerds busy?

📢 Robert Plant ha desvelado en ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ que Tolkien fue clave en su forma de escribir para Led Zeppelin. 🌄 El cantante conecta la Tierra Media con los paisajes de su infancia en las Midlands y Gales. www.sociedadtolkien.org/blog/2026/01...

Visa for Australia approved and 3 weeks until 🇺🇸🛫🌎🛬🇦🇺🦘🐨👧🏼🧒🏼

You won’t want to miss this! Join us at @westmoot.org to hear the incomparable @aranelparmadil.bsky.social!!!

Cleaning up my Advent wreath involves more glitter than my German Catholic grandparents could have ever anticipated, God rest their souls

Emailing a draft of a thesis chapter to my supervisors and I accidentally typed “Beset, Clare” instead of “Best, Clare” which feels more accurate actually

One reunion to rule them all. The Lord Of The Rings fellowship celebrates 25 years of cinema’s greatest fantasy saga in Empire’s world-exclusive reunion issue – featuring brand-new interviews, cast photos, and more. On sale Thursday 15 January. READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

#Westmoot26 invites proposals for papers related to the life & works of JRR Tolkien! The theme of 2026 is Hope/Eucatastrophe. All proposals are welcomed and will be considered. Please submit your proposal at our webpage by March 1. #tolkien #westmoot #intothewest

YA sci-fi and fantasy writers, a children's fiction competition with a 10,000 GBP prize & publishing contract - deadline June 2026. For a "completed full-length novel for readers aged 7-18" written in English. #writingcommunity #SFF #YA #YoungAdult www.chickenhousebooks.com/submissions/

Being back at work is the worst but they opened a Maman by my office so I bought a $9 coffee

Protect the best coast ❤️