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Grendel’s Mother Talks Back
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Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2025
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Some glimpses into Westmoot 2025
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Shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Best Article Award!
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cfp: Tolkien and War
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Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’
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My recent talk: Dreaming the Middle Ages: The Case of Grendel’s Mother
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Beowulf as children’s lit: 2 recent publications
Anna Smol’s “Beowulf and Boyology,” explores the conflation of medieval stories and childhood in late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her review of a collection of essays titled “Beowulf as Children’s Literature,” highlights the volume as a valuable resource for studying medieval adaptations for young readers.
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A link to my latest post on Tolkien & Alliterative Verse
Please follow along at tolkienalliterative.ca if you’re interested in the alliterative poems Tolkien wrote. My research assistants and I are building a bibliography of Tolkien’s alliterative verse, some online guides to alliterative metre, and links to some of Tolkien’s notes on the topic. You’ll also find an occasional blog post on what’s new in this…
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Upcoming deadlines: CfPs in Tolkien studies
We’re still enjoying summer weather here in Nova Scotia, but let’s face it, fall is just around the corner, and with it, some deadlines for Tolkien scholars interested in presenting their research at conferences in the coming year. If you don’t intend to propose anything, you still might want to browse the topics that people…
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Anna Smol: A Single Leaf 