#Tolkien

Sorry, I can't reply to everybody in person, but I'm sincerely grateful for the good wishes. A few people have said "I'm going through this - do you have any
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New paper: Discovery of the first southern monk seal, 𝘌𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, changes everything we know about true seal evolution! My 3rd PhD paper @royalsociety 1/7: @
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Another worthwhile small film you may not have heard of that I would like to praise is "Avengers: Endgame" which I re-watched last night with my infant son. (He wakes
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Hope you enjoyed the superstar blogs we shared this morning?Here are more intriguing posts from over the years: From Tolkien's study habits, to Hans Christian Andersen's reflections on slavery, to
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People asked me a little about series bibles. I can't speak to anyone else, but I'll tell you what mine are usually like. (CONT'D) My series bibles tend to be
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Se está hablando mucho de las cartas de Galdós a Pardo Bazán. Aparte de la conveniencia o no de publicarlas (yo pienso que sí son pertinentes, dejando aparte anécdotas de
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The title of this painting is “The Sun Kissed Visages of Tracy Allard and Jeremy Nixon Dangling from a Palm Tree while a Silhouetted Jason Kenney Blindly Swings a Limp
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1/ I too watched #TheDig last nite. While I loved the superb acting (C.Mulligan wrecks me time & again), beautiful cinematography, & tender humanization of the archeological dig, I felt
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Hey sci-fi and fantasy writers, it's OK to put words like Aleahji'Quadkta or whatever into your stories. But just stringing semi-random letters together will only take you so far. So,
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Oh can’t wait for the *checks notes*-the virulent racism of fandom to become even more mainstream -publishing to be stifled by a flood of the same fricking shit but this
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well, I wrote three chapters of a story about my favorite hobbits that I will almost certainly be continuing. If you're interested and promise not to make fun of me
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Love when 'original races' in a fantasy pitch just means 'Jews, but they're lizard people'. that's not even original, my man, david icke beat you to it I generally have
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This is an interesting question. I see a lot of people mentioning that since war, slavery, classism, ableism, etc. are part of history, it makes sense to have them in
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In case you missed it over the weekend:Our co-owner @eugenemarshall was interviewed for this important article in @WIRED. Our book, Ancestry & Culture: an Alternative to Race in 5e, is
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Billed as maybe the tallest known beaver dam in the world, "Helm's Deep" in Voyageurs National Park is 11-13ft (3.4-4.0m) tall, depending on where you measure it from.A short thread
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A perfect day to celebrate one of the most beautiful relationships in Lord of the Rings: Legolas and Gimli. A relationship that I think is amazing because they didn't start
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