Very stoked and proud of the next issue of Mallorn that should be arriving at people’s doors in the next coming weeks! Thanks to all who contributed art and scholarship! If you want an issue like this one, you can join the Tolkien Society and meet some awesome people www.tolkiensociety.org/join/

New Tolkien Pop! post about facing the darkness in KPop Demon Hunters, Stranger Things, and The Lord of the Rings: open.substack.com/pub/tolkienp...

I know I’m way behind, but I finally watched KPop Demon Hunters and I, personally, prefer Soda Pop over Golden 🤷🏻‍♂️

“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks”

I’ve been returning to physical media lately because the digital-sphere doesn’t really let you own anything. Here are some of my recent pickups from purchases and gifts: the South Park game (plus a Kenny figure from 1998!), my first record player and vinyl ever, and a tape cassette player 🤘🏼

This podcast episode is from a livestream that @trippfuller.bsky.social curated with Dr. Craig A. Boyd for Homebrewed Christianity, where Craig gave a lecture on Tolkien’s problem with those hungry for power and how he probably would have hated Trump: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Why shouldn’t I watch the extended editions again?

You can call me Samwise…because I know my letters

“It is enough for me to have seen the Lady of the Galadhrim, and to have heard her gentle words”

New episode of the podcast with Crystal of Literary Flour, where we talk about bringing baked goods and literature together and her journey as a fan of literature and business owner: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

It comes in pints?

Finally got my Tolkien Pop! shirt in the mail!

My friend Taylor Thomas saw my trash Canva edit and made me an original reworking that you can now get as a shirt and sticker! He’s designed some other things for @rethinkingfaith.bsky.social and is an amazing artist. You can pick up some merch here: byte-geist-shop.fourthwall.com/products/tol...

Was playing around with some new graphics for Tolkien Pop! I know with AI, it’s hard to tell what is or isn’t AI, but this was just done with some editing on Canva and some collage style configuration. Wanted to bring together my love for punk and Tolkien. What do y’all think?

Just a reminder that Christianity is a Middle Eastern religion

Halloween: I am an autumn…and a hobbbit in all but size

I saw someone do this and thought it was fun. Here are my top ten favorite video games of all time!

It burns us!

Here’s a Halloween Special episode of the Tolkien Pop! podcast with my sister Hannah, where we talk #horror in Peter Jackson’s #LOTR trilogy and #Tolkien podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

New Tolkien Pop! Podcast episode, where I talk with Dr. Giuseppe Pezzini about his new book Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

You can read my chapter “The Decline of Omnipotence in Pop Culture” for free here along with @thomasjayoord.bsky.social’s response. There is a link to the book of essays it’s a part of if you’re interested in alternative theologies to those of more classical types! c4ort.com/essays/the-d...

Had the honor of contributing to this volume from @ctr4process.bsky.social There is a free virtual book launch tonight at 4:30 CST if you’d like to hear more about it! processandfaith.org/event/specia...

It’s our pal @clarelmoore.bsky.social! Can’t wait to check this out! ✨

Anotha one: New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @clarelmoore.bsky.social who is a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow, researching disability in Tolkien’s legendarium. She gives insight into feminist and disability thought in Tolkien’s works: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with Matthew Distefano from Quoir and the Heretic Happy Hour podcast to talk Tolkien and the release of his new book, Letters from the Shire: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Keep Tolkien’s name out yo F*CKIN’ MOUTH

Spent my Hobbit Day making second breakfast, Beorn’s honey cakes, and reading some new Tolkien scholarship! Cheers, everyone!

You can stick a name tag with the name “Jesus” written on it on Rambo and, sure, the name of Jesus is invoked, but that still doesn’t make Rambo Jesus. It just makes Rambo an imposter and those who worship him dishonest

Bills were 1st and 20 and the Dolphins give them a 19-yard completion for Josh Allen—worst defense in the League, good lord #BUFvsMIA

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @willnrose.bsky.social and others from @systematicgeek.bsky.social where we talk #Tolkien, fandom, and what it means to be a good fan in the world! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Very stoked to read this one

RIP to our boy

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @leahrobinson.bsky.social where we talk C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, and Bad Theology. What does it mean to be a good fan, thinkers, and person overall? Listen to find out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Check out this recent title from McFarland in which I contributed a chapter on Eucatastrophe in Avatar: The Last Airbender 😎 mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theo...

My wife and I currently have an arrangement for where she’s agreed to read LOTR is if I go through ACOTAR. I recently finished chapter 54 and 55 of Mist and Fury and, I say this with the utmost compliment, y’all are WILDIN

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @teachingwithmagic.bsky.social We talk Tolkien, pop culture, education, and how they can be brought together! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I grew up on these streets

Literally had someone ask me this today in response to a point about Israel deliberately starving Palestinian babies death. Despicable callousness. Beyond inhumane. There’s nothing to say to such cruel people. Let’s instead continue to raise our voices & actions relentlessly to end this genocide.

I’ve gotten a podcast going for Tolkien Pop! And I have an awesome conversation with Ryan Does from Across the Bifrost: The Mighty Thor poscast about Thor, Tolkien, and the Eddas. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I love South Park and the latest season opener was a BANGER. I also have one of the few peer reviewed articles on Tolkien and South Park that you can read for free here: academia.edu/resource/wor...

This is vomit-inducing. Another eyewitness account of the literal starving and murdering of innocent men, women, and children Free Palestine 🇵🇸

About halfway through The Worm Ouroboros. Probably the most beautiful prose I’ve read in fantasy and in the running for most beautiful in fiction in general, for me

Here is the latest episode of the Tolkien Pop! podcast where my friend Andrew Nicewander and I talk about Tolkien, religious trauma, deconstruction, and hope for a better religious future. Listenable here or anywhere you get your podcasts! tolkienpop.substack.com/p/andrew-nic...

Frodo and Sam when they see the Eagles coming to save them:

Tomorrow I’ll be speaking at Hendersonville Church of the Nazarene for their summer series on Tolkien, Fantasy, and Art! You can watch online for free as well: youtube.com/@hendersonvi...

Trying to work on putting out some more audio content & I have an amazing interview with Dr. Robin Anne Reid on Atheism, Agnosticism, Animism, and Tolkien. I hope you enjoy & you can listen here or wherever you can listen to podcasts! open.substack.com/pub/tolkienp...

Just take the damn picture!

A trillion dollar tax burden on American citizens to fund Trump’s gestapo and friends’ pockets while we have to figure out how to fund education and pay for healthcare—without any additional tax cuts for us. Republican politicians worship a king and it ain’t Jesus

I am ready to partaaayyyyy

Now available for pre-order: Queer Approaches to Tolkien. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/quee...