
A Single Leaf Blog
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A Single Leaf Blog covers articles on Tolkien studies, medievalism, old English, and university teaching - and sometimes all of those things all rolled up together.
I'm Dr. Anna Smol, my blog posts aim to inform researchers in Tolkien studies as well as fans who are interested in exploring Tolkien's works and/or medieval literature.
A Single Leaf Blog
1M ago
The Westmoot 2025 conference will be held in Kansas City from May 9-11, the first time the Tolkien Society will sponsor an event in North America ..read more
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2M ago
How do you say Bandersnatch in Old English? On Tolkien's translation of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" into Old English. In Collected Poems of J.R. R. Tolkien edited by Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond, with commentary by Arden Smith ..read more
A Single Leaf Blog
3M ago
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference program and links for registration. Free, online, Nov 23-24, 2024 ..read more
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3M ago
CFP: Tolkien and War. 21st Annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont hybrid conference. April 5, 2025; proposals due Feb. 2 ..read more
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3M ago
Links to two articles available for free download on J.R.R. Tolkien's play, "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth" and a video recording of a conference presentation on Tolkien as a playwright. These essays discuss manuscript revisions, ideas about drama, and allusions to medieval poetry ..read more
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3M ago
This call for papers comes from Cami Agan and Clare Moore who will be editing a collection to honour the work of Leslie Donovan and Janet Brennan Croft who, almost ten years ago, published Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien. We invite submissions for an anthology focused on women ..read more
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4M ago
My recent talk: "Dreaming the Middle Ages: The Case of Grendel's Mother." Keynote for the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, Oct. 4, 2024 ..read more
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4M ago
First impressions of the three-volume Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien ..read more
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10M ago
On April 13th, the 20th Annual Tolkien conference will be held at the University of Vermont as a hybrid event. This has always been a small, friendly meeting run by Dr. Chris Vaccaro, and now offers an online option for speakers and attendees who can’t be there in person.
Every year the conference has a special theme (although not all of the papers necessarily deal with it). This year’s focus is Psychologies of Middle-earth, with keynote speaker Dr. Sara Brown giving a paper titled ““Restless and uneasy . . . thin and stretched”: The Ring, The Ringbearers, and the Bodies in Psychological Cris ..read more
A Single Leaf Blog
1y ago
The Mythopoeic Society is sponsoring another online seminar, this one “centered around queerness in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, or other mythopoeic work.” See https://mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2024.htm for more information and the registration forms.
Below you’ll find the two-day program on February 17 – 18, with plenty of Tolkien presentations on offer. The keynote will be delivered by Taylor Driggers, author of the recently published Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature. You can read more on the Midwinter Seminar site ..read more