Luke Shelton, PhD

The deadline to submit a paper or presentation is by the end of the day today! Don’t miss out, I would love to see you there! #westmoot #tolkien #tolkiensociety

Congratulations!

Awesome, can’t wait for the interview!

Have you talked to Amon Hen to see if they want someone to review it? (I don’t know if they do it with an art book, but it’s worth a shot, I think)

Honestly, have been trying to find decent audio of it but I can’t

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Very honored to have a chapter (on ecology and worldbuilding) in this anthology.

The cat's out of the bag!!
My work is appearing in this very important incoming volume!!! It's been so hard keeping it secret for the last couple of years!!

Can we talk about it now??? It's been a highlight of my budding career to be asked to co-author a chapter with @joelmerriner.bsky.social. I'm sooo excited to read everyone's contributions, especially @mercuryreads.bsky.social ✨

I’m honoured to have a chapter in this volume on visualization, both on Tolkien’s visualizations as he composed his stories and on ways that viewers can imaginatively engage with his invented worlds through illustrations. I can’t wait to read the whole book!

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

Honoured to be asked to co-write a chapter for this with the brilliant @mariebreta.bsky.social. 😄

Thrilled to have had the opportunity to write the chapter on Digital Humanities and I’m looking forward so much to reading the other chapters.

@dimitrafimi.bsky.social and @lukebshelton.bsky.social were excellent editors!

I'm beyond honored to have written the chapter on Theological Criticism for what will be a phenomenal book. Mazel Tov to @lukebshelton.bsky.social, @dimitrafimi.bsky.social, and my brilliant fellow-conributors. A huge step in a mammoth undertaking!

I have a chapter about politics in this book. It was a fun excuse to catch up on the Tolkien scholarship and think about how to synthesize it all

So happy to share that @dimitrafimi.bsky.social and I have submitted this project to the publisher.

I am very excited for the pieces in this volume to get into circulation because our authors worked diligently and put together some amazing chapters!

So happy to share that @dimitrafimi.bsky.social and I have submitted this project to the publisher.

I am very excited for the pieces in this volume to get into circulation because our authors worked diligently and put together some amazing chapters!

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Horrific. Trump’s federal agents shot and killed another person.

Republicans in control of Congress could put a stop to this chaos.

Enough. Get ICE out of Minnesota, stop funding this violence, and end the assault on our communities.

Picture of a crowd of hundreds participating in the general strike in Minneapolis, Minnesota, today.

Photo posted on FB of the crowd in Minneapolis today. It refreshed before I could get the name of the original poster.

Proud of this city!

Taken from a book whose title I won’t mention here…for reasons
5/5

• Expose what happened.
• Validate the target: show the positive aspects of whoever
or whatever is attacked.
• Interpret the events as unjust.
• Mobilise support. Avoid or discredit official channels.
• Resist intimidation and rewards.
4/5

What can be done in the face of these five methods that reduce
outrage from injustice? The answer: counter each one of them.
Here are the ways.
3/5

• Cover up the action.
• Devalue the target.
• Reinterpret what happened by lying, minimising, blaming and framing.
• Use official channels to give an appearance of justice.
• Intimidate or reward people involved
2/5

When a powerful group does something unjust, it can take action to reduce popular outrage.
1/5

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Taken from a book whose title I won’t mention here…for reasons
5/5

• Expose what happened.
• Validate the target: show the positive aspects of whoever
or whatever is attacked.
• Interpret the events as unjust.
• Mobilise support. Avoid or discredit official channels.
• Resist intimidation and rewards.
4/5

What can be done in the face of these five methods that reduce
outrage from injustice? The answer: counter each one of them.
Here are the ways.
3/5

• Cover up the action.
• Devalue the target.
• Reinterpret what happened by lying, minimising, blaming and framing.
• Use official channels to give an appearance of justice.
• Intimidate or reward people involved
2/5