Kaley 🍂 Midhiel
@erynlasbelin.bsky.social
🗡️ Triangle Tolkienists Smial organizer
🌿 @triangletolkienists.org
📚 bookselling → academic publishing
🎓 European history + English literature
☕ she/her • nd • pagan • intj • 5w4
🌿 @triangletolkienists.org
📚 bookselling → academic publishing
🎓 European history + English literature
☕ she/her • nd • pagan • intj • 5w4
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A beautifully illuminated example of a #EYAMedieval document from our collection. This is a Psalter for Sacrum Use from the 14th century. #ExploreYourArchive #ExploreYourArchives #illuminatedmanuscripts
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A beautifully illuminated example of a #EYAMedieval document from our collection. This is a Psalter for Sacrum Use from the 14th century. #ExploreYourArchive #ExploreYourArchives #illuminatedmanuscripts
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A note from our CEO Andy Hunter expressing our gratitude for our extended book family and stressing the importance of supporting independent bookstores this holiday season and beyond 💜
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A note from our CEO Andy Hunter expressing our gratitude for our extended book family and stressing the importance of supporting independent bookstores this holiday season and beyond 💜
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I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
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We're super excited to share that "Queer Approaches to Tolkien" will be available in paperback on Nov 28th (less than 2 weeks from now!), and in digital format a few weeks afterwards. We can't wait to check this out!!
robinareid.substack.com/p/queer-appr...
robinareid.substack.com/p/queer-appr...
Queer Approaches to Tolkien: Essays on the Many Paths to Middle-earth
Publication date: November 28, 2025!
robinareid.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
We're super excited to share that "Queer Approaches to Tolkien" will be available in paperback on Nov 28th (less than 2 weeks from now!), and in digital format a few weeks afterwards. We can't wait to check this out!!
robinareid.substack.com/p/queer-appr...
robinareid.substack.com/p/queer-appr...
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This clearly shouldn't be my first response, but I just find myself so remarkably annoyed not by the fact that my field is being co-opted by the worst people, but that it is being co-opted by the dumbest people, just the thickest, most arrogantly superficial 'trousered apes' imaginable.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This clearly shouldn't be my first response, but I just find myself so remarkably annoyed not by the fact that my field is being co-opted by the worst people, but that it is being co-opted by the dumbest people, just the thickest, most arrogantly superficial 'trousered apes' imaginable.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Respectfully, hell yeah.
On 7 November 1969: the New Statesman is published announcing the #Tolkien Society. Founded by Vera Chapman, known as Belladonna Took, the Society started with this advert.
The Society quickly grew to 60 people but now has 4,000+ members! You can join at tolkiensociety.org/join #BookSky
The Society quickly grew to 60 people but now has 4,000+ members! You can join at tolkiensociety.org/join #BookSky
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Respectfully, hell yeah.
Have been feeling sad so I reread Persuasion. Am not sure that was the right call. Now feeling sad and yearning.
Also, the age gap between me and Anne Elliot is increasing rapidly lmao
Also, the age gap between me and Anne Elliot is increasing rapidly lmao
November 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Have been feeling sad so I reread Persuasion. Am not sure that was the right call. Now feeling sad and yearning.
Also, the age gap between me and Anne Elliot is increasing rapidly lmao
Also, the age gap between me and Anne Elliot is increasing rapidly lmao
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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Our Call for Papers for the 2025 PPP Moot happening December 18-21 is here, as well as one for activities and entertainments! And if you’re wondering more about this event, check out our website for details, registration and more: theprancingponypodcast.com/moot/
November 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Our Call for Papers for the 2025 PPP Moot happening December 18-21 is here, as well as one for activities and entertainments! And if you’re wondering more about this event, check out our website for details, registration and more: theprancingponypodcast.com/moot/
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Have you heard about The Bovadium Fragments, the new #Tolkien book published three weeks ago (and the last to be edited by Christopher Tolkien)?
The Fragments are a satire on the impact of cars, and highlight again Tolkien's concern for the environment.
www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
The Fragments are a satire on the impact of cars, and highlight again Tolkien's concern for the environment.
www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
New Tolkien book – <em>The Bovadium Fragments</em> – is satire on industrialisation
HarperCollins has announced that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Bovadium Fragments will be released on 9 October 2025.
www.tolkiensociety.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Have you heard about The Bovadium Fragments, the new #Tolkien book published three weeks ago (and the last to be edited by Christopher Tolkien)?
The Fragments are a satire on the impact of cars, and highlight again Tolkien's concern for the environment.
www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
The Fragments are a satire on the impact of cars, and highlight again Tolkien's concern for the environment.
www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
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I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee
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Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.
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Tolkien, on the record, hated Nazis, hated Tyrants, hated Government Control & Surveillance, hated bullies, and especially hated bullies who enact violence on innocent people while trying to obfuscate that it's all about power.
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Tolkien, on the record, hated Nazis, hated Tyrants, hated Government Control & Surveillance, hated bullies, and especially hated bullies who enact violence on innocent people while trying to obfuscate that it's all about power.
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If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):
October 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):
Autumn views from the Blue Ridge Mountains this week. Couldn't have asked for better weather.
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Autumn views from the Blue Ridge Mountains this week. Couldn't have asked for better weather.
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The Latin adj. “pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum” and the Ancient Greek adj. “καλός, καλός, καλή, καλόν” should just be translated as “beautiful”regardless of gender (I.e. don’t switch to “handsome” for masc. (or n.) nouns. The Grks and Romans used a single term; we shouldn’t code switch.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Latin adj. “pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum” and the Ancient Greek adj. “καλός, καλός, καλή, καλόν” should just be translated as “beautiful”regardless of gender (I.e. don’t switch to “handsome” for masc. (or n.) nouns. The Grks and Romans used a single term; we shouldn’t code switch.
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"as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Musselmen [=Muslims]" between this and Washington's letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, the framers really went out of their way to say, "No, really, we mean to protect *all* religions."
Thinking to Founders, Framers, so much against any established religion, representing numerous views & beliefs w/little unity. Thus, examples like Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (1797): "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"🗃️
October 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Musselmen [=Muslims]" between this and Washington's letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, the framers really went out of their way to say, "No, really, we mean to protect *all* religions."
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Delighted to share that my (co-)edited volumes 'Tolkien and the Gothic' and 'The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien' have been reviewed for the Journal of Inkling Studies! www.euppublishing.com/toc/ink/15/2
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - ink: Vol 15, No 2
www.euppublishing.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Delighted to share that my (co-)edited volumes 'Tolkien and the Gothic' and 'The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien' have been reviewed for the Journal of Inkling Studies! www.euppublishing.com/toc/ink/15/2
I've gone back and forth a lot on whether it's wise to take or share protest photos, but I got a lot of requests to take pictures of my sign this weekend, so I did end up taking one myself. I need a little thematic levity to maintain the last vestiges of my sanity right now.
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I've gone back and forth a lot on whether it's wise to take or share protest photos, but I got a lot of requests to take pictures of my sign this weekend, so I did end up taking one myself. I need a little thematic levity to maintain the last vestiges of my sanity right now.
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I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
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Some good thinking that looks beyond the optics and frames the past weekend a bit outside of what I have seen elsewhere. democracyamericana.com/posts/a40ac6...
America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship
Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective
democracyamericana.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Some good thinking that looks beyond the optics and frames the past weekend a bit outside of what I have seen elsewhere. democracyamericana.com/posts/a40ac6...
Hey, quick question: what the fuck?
New ham-fisted political metaphor just dropped.
October 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Hey, quick question: what the fuck?
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Lotta folks here at No Kings, Orange County NC.
Lots of American flags, a fellow in an inflatable dino costume asking everyone if they've read the Declaration of Independence and handing out copies.
No kings in North Carolina.
Lots of American flags, a fellow in an inflatable dino costume asking everyone if they've read the Declaration of Independence and handing out copies.
No kings in North Carolina.
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Lotta folks here at No Kings, Orange County NC.
Lots of American flags, a fellow in an inflatable dino costume asking everyone if they've read the Declaration of Independence and handing out copies.
No kings in North Carolina.
Lots of American flags, a fellow in an inflatable dino costume asking everyone if they've read the Declaration of Independence and handing out copies.
No kings in North Carolina.