Honored to see my paper 📝 among the most popular! 🫶🏼 Tolkien's lovers, this one's for you: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol... #Tolkien #lotr #literature #PhD

🌟 The CFP of our upcoming winter issue is out: JACLR is looking forward to housing your work! ⛄🧣❄🧦🥶 Whether you’ve been pondering submission for a while or just heard about us recently, this is your chance to share your research, academic criticism or creative work with the world! 🌍🛜

Thrilled to share my latest article📝✨ in the Journal of Tolkien Research! Source: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol... #Tolkien #Lotr #PhD #literature

Interviewer: Have you a particular fondness for these comfortable homely things of life that the Shire embodies: the home and pipe and fire and bed - the homely virtues? Tolkien: Haven't you?

A new article on Tolkien and the conception of time within the Elven realms is forthcoming. #Tolkien #LOTR #PhD

Convencer a los académicos sobre Tolkien y lo celta: más lento (y difícil) que terminar una tesis ⏳🐢. ¿La solución? Aportar mi granito de arena 🌾✨ para desmontar estos mitos 🚫🗣️. Te lo cuento en este #HiloTesis 🧵👇 @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social @uvigo.bsky.social

“Frodo undertook his quest out of love – to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could; and also in complete humility, acknowledging that he was wholly inadequate to the task.” - Tolkien Letter 246

“I have..devoted myself mainly to those things that I personally like... I have tried to awake liking, to communicate delight in those things that I find enjoyable." - Tolkien (Valedictory Address to Oxford)

Happy birthday Tree and Leaf! Published on 28 May 1964, this small collection by J.R.R. #Tolkien includes the seminal essay "On Fairy-Stories" and the story "Leaf by Niggle". Later editions include "Mythopoeia" and "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son".

🔬 ¿Estás haciendo el doctorado o defendiste tu tesis en los últimos 12 meses? 📣 Participa en la 5ª edición del concurso #HiloTesis y cuenta tu investigación en forma de hilo en BlueSky. 🗓️ Del 3 al 17 de junio de 2025 🌐 + Info: www.crue.org/2025/05/quin... #RedDivulga ‪@filarramendi.bsky.social

Currently drafting a proposal on Tolkien’s treatment of Fangorn and Treebeard. #Tolkien #LOTR #PhD

Hoxe celebramos as #LetrasGalegas2025 coas cantareiras, que manteñen viva a tradición oral da nosa lingua 🎶 A lingua é memoria, ciencia e futuro! Sigamos soñando, creando e investigando en galego.🤍💙 #CienciaEnGalego #LinguaEVida

Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️ Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894) #lordoftherings #lotr #eowyn #lotrfanart #illustration #fantasyart #tolkien

REMEMBER 🎓 CFP – 48th AEDEAN Conference! Our upcoming conference will take place in Vitoria-Gasteiz, November 12-14, 2025, hosted by the University of the Basque Country @upvehu 📅 DEADLINE: 1 MAY. For more info, click here 🔗https://aedean.org & aedeangasteiz.com

Last day to send your proposals! Looking forward to reading what you’ve prepared for this seminar 😊 To send your abstract, click here: forms.gle/jb95ysvVt7ng29… 🔗

On 25 March in Middle-earth: in the year T.A. 3019, Frodo and Gollum reach the Cracks of Doom. Gollum steals the Ring and falls. Sauron is defeated! Cuio i Pheriain anann! Aglar'ni Pheriannath! Eglerio! Image: "At the Cracks of Doom" by Ted Nasmith #LOTR #TolkienReadingDay

Hot off the press...here it is! 🙌🏼 I love that Tolkien's classification of his work is so categorical in so many of his letters ✉️ #Tolkien #LOTR #PhD

You can access the available list of books to review in our CFP: www.ucm.es/siim/call-fo... Have a look and we look forward to reading your contributions!

Just finished on Tom Bombadil, now working on Celticism in Treebeard and the Ents🌳 #Tolkien #LOTR #PhD

My new paper titled "He Is the Master of Wood, Water, and Hill: Is Tom Bombadil the True Key Keeper of the Old Forest?" is now available at Journal of Tolkien Research 📚 Source: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

“And while Angband was besieged and its gates shut there were green things even among the pits and broken rocks before the doors of hell.” - The Silmarillion

The book with arguably the most shocking piece of graffiti is Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. A first edition copy from a lending library, was defaced by a grumpy reader: ‘More absolute trash was never written than in the present work' (Shelfmark: Bodleian Library Johnson f.2446 v.1). 😮

🤩 We are pleased to announce the CFP of the first special issue on Intersectional Girlhood(s), guest edited by Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara and Iria Seijas-Pérez from @uvigo.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline: September 1, 2025 🔗 Full CFP: t.co/eSxcrz4Tuu

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend…” - Faramir

Excited to unveil my latest article in Journal of Tolkien Research! 📝✨ Dive into the magic of Tom Bombadil as the Celtic druid of the forest, with Old Man Willow as its true guardian. 🌿🌲 Check it out here: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol... #Tolkien #LOTR #LoTR #PhD

✨Welcome to JACLR, Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research✨ JACLR has just joined the bluesky community, and we're over the moon🎉🎊 Follow us and stay tuned with all news that are coming soon💜 We look forward to seeing your work published with us! #JACLR #academicjournal #university

My latest essay ✒️📜 from the Aelfwine Awards 🏆 2024 challenge s the Celtic myths in Tolkien’s work. Read it here: www.sociedadtolkien.org/wp-content/u...

Finalist in the 2024 Aelfwine Awards, organized by the Spanish Tolkien Society, in the academic essay category. #Tolkien #LOTR

1 Dec on the #fantasyadvent: “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (1816), by E.T.A. Hoffmann. A Christmas classic! Full text: archive.org/details/nutc... LibriVox recording: librivox.org/nutcracker-a... @uofgfantasy.bsky.social 🎄🐁 🧁

Tolkien’s work resists strict categorization, inviting interpretation. Although he denied significant Celtic influences in Letter 16, he later seemed to revise this in Letter 125. "The Fellowship of the Ring" (1954) provides further evidence of such influences. #LOTR #Tolkien

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

"The Otherworld is nearby, perhaps indeed immediately present, but hidden and alien as well. It may lie beneath a single well or hill;...or be linked to points far distant from each other in the geography of mortals." -Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories #Tolkien #LOTR

Delighted to share my latest article on the mystical Celtic watery elements in Tolkien's Elven realms. Dive in and explore the enchanting landscapes! Source: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...