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Talks on Tolkien II: Dimitra Fimi on Tolkien & Childhood Studies
This week’s talk by Dimitra Fimi applies concepts from childhood studies to Tolkien’s fiction. She begins by pointing out that the concept of childhood is a social construction that varies in different cultures and times, and then goes on to examine Tolkien’s ideas about childhood in “Laws and Customs of the Eldar,” The Children of…
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“something has gone crack”; Tolkien on Rob Gilson & the TCBS, 100 years ago today.
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Talks on Tolkien II: Patrick Curry on Enchantment & Hypermodernity
This week, I turn to the work of Patrick Curry, best known to Tolkien readers as the author of Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity (revised edition Houghton Mifflin, 2004) and Deep Roots in a Time of Frost: Essays on Tolkien (Walking Tree 2014); his publications also include works such as Ecological Ethics: An Introduction…
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Anna Smol: A Single Leaf 