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#TolkienTrewsday - Landscapes and Landmarks *cracks knuckles* 😁

One of my main interests in Tolkien's world is the way that plants, ecologies, landscapes, and people work together. I keep meaning to write more about it and then Not Doing That but it's constantly in my mind. 🧵

I really am having a fun time at this online conference with @mythsoc.bsky.social

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A snap image of two paragraphs from a PolitiFact study. It reads, "Collectively, 58 posts expressing support for the [ad] campaign or opposing the "Nazi" criticism [of Sweeney] gained more than 198,100 shares, 1.8 million likes and 87.1 million views. In the same time frame, we saw four X posts meeting the criteria that criticized the [ad] campaign, with 12,400 shares, 287,000 likes and 11 million views in total. That means there's nearly one post criticizing the ad for every 15 posts defending it."

15/1. That's the ratio between high profile X accounts on the right & left that are sounding off about #SydneySweeney.

The right is so desperate to make "fetch" happen.
@politifact.bsky.social #AmericanEagle #Sweeney

Congrats to Lyra Keran Zhang for winning the Alexei Kondratiev Award her paper
‘Desirable Lady’ or ‘She Who Desires’: Examining Aredhel’s Agency in Tolkien’s Legendarium!

Congratulations to our 2024 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies winners!
Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (editors)
The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien

Congratulations to our 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature winners!
Minsoo Kang, The Melancholy of Untold History (William Morrow, 2024)

This has been such a fun conference to be even a small part of! Thanks to @mythsoc.bsky.social for putting together such a great event!

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I don't know exactly when it's due to come out, but @roryq.bsky.social and @clarelmoore.bsky.social are working on it!

It has just been a fun day @mythsoc.bsky.social! I need to try to get to an in-person conference again soon, because it is such a joy to interact with such smart and creative people!

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What a first day for #oms4! Thank you to everyone who joined and to our incredible speakers! And be sure to be back tomorrow for more incredible talks on women in Mythopoeic fantasy ❤️

Have not been able to attend MythCon @mythsoc.bsky.social in anyway since 2019, but finally able to attend the Midsummer Online Seminar!! Interesting talks to start the day!!

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An important set of points. Liberal #guardrails didn't hold, & our capitulating institutions are now being occupied in a far-right "war of position." Meanwhile, the #democratic establishment doesn't even know what that phrase means anymore.

What a #oms4 keynote! What a partnership @banzailibrarian.bsky.social and Leslie A. Donovan that produced Perilous and Fair. So grateful for all your hard work that brought that book to life!!

So glad you could join! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the papers here, since I was glued to Zoom and Discord all weekend. 😅

I loved Christopher Vaccaro’s @chrisvaccaro.bsky.social presentation, “From Hildeburh to Héra: Recuperating Women’s Presence in Beowulf, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and Kenji Kamiyama’s The War of the Rohirrim”!
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Fantastic roundtable with Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie Donovan, Cami Agan, Kristine Larsen, Melanie Rawls, Robin Reid, and Una McCormack: “Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy: What Lies Ahead?”
Fascinating insights on the fear that stems from critical examination of beloved works.

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Loved Alicia Fox-Lenz, Grace Moone, & Leah Hagan’s “She Chose Her Fate: The Genderqueer Women of Tolkien and Freedom Beyond the Patriarchal Binary”. An exploration of Galadriel, Éowyn and Lúthien- their nuanced forms of power, gender identity, and agency! Thanks @queerlodgings.bsky.social!

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Sara Brown @aranelparmadil.bsky.social just presented ““Her hair was held a marvel unmatched”: The Significance of Long, Blonde Hair in Tolkien’s Imagination” oh omg it was EXCELLENT! Such an engaging exploration of the ways Tolkien used hair imagery in his female characters. Thank you, Sara!

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Fantastic keynote! So cool to hear about their backgrounds, how the collection came about, and the undeniable impact it has made on the landscape on Tolkien scholarship.

They emphasized that ✨your voice matters in Tolkien scholarship✨!

Thank you so much, Leslie and Janet!

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Thank you @mythsoc.bsky.social for a wonderful conference! Thank you to the amazing co-chairs Cami Agan, Clare Moore, and Robin Anne Reid and Steward Tim Lenz for all your hard work to make this happen! Thank you to all the presenters for your inspiring work! I learned so much from you all!

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A small sculpture of Éowyn next to a cup of tea in a Rohan mug on a messy desk.

It’s time for the Online MidSummer Seminar 2025 “More Perilous and Fair: Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy” from the Mythopoeic Society @mythsoc.bsky.social!

Éowyn and I are SO excited!!!

www.mythsoc.org/oms/oms-04.htm

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#oms4 is officially off! The opening keynote with Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donavan, the editors of Perilous and Fair, starts in 10 minutes!!!

We did not give one in the emails. 😅 Oops!

I can think of like a half dozrn folks I know, including a few scholars, that fall somewhere on the ace spectrum!

Have you heard there's a special issue of Journal of Tolkien Research being done on aro/ace readings?

@aranelparmadil.bsky.social

@fuzzdecay.bsky.social @queerlodgings.bsky.social @lunargem.bsky.social

HEY are there any really good Tolkien scholars (I’m talking in the academic sense) on here

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It's giving

I'd argue the people that are clearly starting their campaigns in 2025 for the 2028 election should also touch fucking grass.