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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