Gaëlle Abaléa
@gaelleabalea.bsky.social
Mom of two jolly sprites/📚Teaching English to reluctant teenagers/ taking her sweet time writing her PhD on J.R.R Tolkien 🎓/ fantasy literature 🧙🏼♂️/ Middle Ages literature and history🛡️/Buffy, Star Wars, Dr Who,Star Trek, Dark Crystal.
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The CfP is open for ‘Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Humanities’ 🥳 Send @clarelmoore.bsky.social and I your proposals!
🥳EVENT ALERT🥳
We are thrilled to be partnering with @tolkiensociety.org and UofG's Medical Humanities Research Centre to host the upcoming seminar 'Arda's Entangled #Bodies and #Environments'.
✍️ CFP DEADLINE 28th March
🗓️ SAT-SUN, 5-6th July
🎟️ FREE
📍 ONLINE
www.tolkiensociety.org/events/semin...
We are thrilled to be partnering with @tolkiensociety.org and UofG's Medical Humanities Research Centre to host the upcoming seminar 'Arda's Entangled #Bodies and #Environments'.
✍️ CFP DEADLINE 28th March
🗓️ SAT-SUN, 5-6th July
🎟️ FREE
📍 ONLINE
www.tolkiensociety.org/events/semin...
Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 – Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments
The Tolkien Society Seminar is a short conference of both researcher-led and non-academic presentations on a specific theme pertaining to Tolkien scholarship. After the seminar, all paper recordings f...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The CfP is open for ‘Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Humanities’ 🥳 Send @clarelmoore.bsky.social and I your proposals!
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My 8th book is now available, from McFarland Books mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
The Sun We Share - McFarland
The Sun We Share Our Star in Popular Media and Science Kristine Larsen 978-1-4766-9117-6 978-1-4766-5397-6
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November 17, 2024 at 8:20 PM
My 8th book is now available, from McFarland Books mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
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How about ynstead of pouringe a ton of moneye ynto A.I. we just funde public educacioun and use the bookes we alreadye have that it ys being trained upon?
December 29, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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3 December on the #fantasyadvent: Catherine Fisher’s The Clockwork Crow. A Gothic story featuring a feisty Victorian orphan girl, a lost boy, a haunting manor, scary Welsh fairies (the #tylwythteg) and snow, all coming together at Christmas! @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social 🐦⬛❄️🎄
December 3, 2024 at 8:29 AM
3 December on the #fantasyadvent: Catherine Fisher’s The Clockwork Crow. A Gothic story featuring a feisty Victorian orphan girl, a lost boy, a haunting manor, scary Welsh fairies (the #tylwythteg) and snow, all coming together at Christmas! @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social 🐦⬛❄️🎄
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My paper from last weekend's wonderful Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference as been published on the open-access Journal of Tolkien Research. If you are interested in readig it, you can find it here:
scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
“We are as we are, and ye are as we find you” (Or, Finrod Elfsplains the Gift of Ilúvatar): The ‘Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth’ as Core Text in Tolkien’s Legendarium
The "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" is a highly problematic text that directly challenges, if not overturns, the eschatology of Tolkien’s legendarium. In combination with the "Tale of Adanel," we are co...
scholar.valpo.edu
November 27, 2024 at 7:34 PM
My paper from last weekend's wonderful Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference as been published on the open-access Journal of Tolkien Research. If you are interested in readig it, you can find it here:
scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
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🧙♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 92 (26 November 2024): “Monsters/Critics”
Tolkien delivered his lecture “Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics” to the British Academy in London (25 November 1936).
Dual theme of Monsters and/or Critics. 🧵 1/
📆 Week 92 (26 November 2024): “Monsters/Critics”
Tolkien delivered his lecture “Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics” to the British Academy in London (25 November 1936).
Dual theme of Monsters and/or Critics. 🧵 1/
November 26, 2024 at 1:43 AM
🧙♂️ #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien
📆 Week 92 (26 November 2024): “Monsters/Critics”
Tolkien delivered his lecture “Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics” to the British Academy in London (25 November 1936).
Dual theme of Monsters and/or Critics. 🧵 1/
📆 Week 92 (26 November 2024): “Monsters/Critics”
Tolkien delivered his lecture “Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics” to the British Academy in London (25 November 1936).
Dual theme of Monsters and/or Critics. 🧵 1/
Introduce yourself with:
One book 📚 — The Lord of the Rings (JRRT)
One movie 🎥 — Ladyhawke
One album 💿 — An ancient muse (Loreena McKennit)
One TV show 📺 — Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
One book 📚 — The Lord of the Rings (JRRT)
One movie 🎥 — Ladyhawke
One album 💿 — An ancient muse (Loreena McKennit)
One TV show 📺 — Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
November 19, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Introduce yourself with:
One book 📚 — The Lord of the Rings (JRRT)
One movie 🎥 — Ladyhawke
One album 💿 — An ancient muse (Loreena McKennit)
One TV show 📺 — Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
One book 📚 — The Lord of the Rings (JRRT)
One movie 🎥 — Ladyhawke
One album 💿 — An ancient muse (Loreena McKennit)
One TV show 📺 — Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
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I think I have reached enough followers to start asking questions (a lot of my research is about the reception of #Tolkien’s works, so I love asking about it)!
When did you first read anything by Tolkien (or watch/play/listen to an adaptation if that came first)?
Reskeet for more answers!
When did you first read anything by Tolkien (or watch/play/listen to an adaptation if that came first)?
Reskeet for more answers!
November 16, 2024 at 2:13 PM
I think I have reached enough followers to start asking questions (a lot of my research is about the reception of #Tolkien’s works, so I love asking about it)!
When did you first read anything by Tolkien (or watch/play/listen to an adaptation if that came first)?
Reskeet for more answers!
When did you first read anything by Tolkien (or watch/play/listen to an adaptation if that came first)?
Reskeet for more answers!