In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Robin Reid about feminist and queer Tolkien scholarship and fandom.
Robin Reid is a Tolkien scholar who was a professor of English at Texas A&M University until her retirement in 2020. She is currently working on a book that will be a feminist reception study of women and non-binary readers of Tolkien, with updates posted on her Substack here.
More Robin:
Women & Tolkien: Amazons, Valkyries, Feminists, and Slashers
J.R.R. Tolkien, Culture Warrior
Thrusts in the Dark: Slashers' Queer Practices
Sources/mentions:
Brown - “Éowyn it was, and Dernhelm also”
Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Craig - Queer Lodgings: Gender and Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings
Crowe - Power in Arda: Sources, Uses, and Misuses
Donovan - The Valkyrie Reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Fimi - Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes (YouTube)
Kisor/Vaccaro (ed) - Tolkien and Alterity
Merrick - The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms
Queripel - The Mariner (and his wife): Rethinking Aldarion's (A)sexuality
Rateliff - The Missing Women: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lifelong Support for Women's Higher Education
Smith - At Home and Abroad: Éowyn's Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings
Timmons - Hobbit Sex and Sensuality
Vaccaro - “Dyrne Langað”: Secret Longing and Homo-amory in Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Walls-Thumma - The Inequality Prototype: Gender, Inequality, and the Valar in Tolkien’s Silmarillion
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