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Troels Forchhammer (Parma-kenta)
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Tolkienist & avid reader
Dane, Scout, physicist, father of 4
(he/him)
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Thrilled to be co-chairing this summer’s @tolkiensociety.org seminar with @willsherwood.bsky.social on “Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments”! The seminar will be online July 5-6. Send in your proposals! 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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January 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Pre-ordered my copy of the Tolkien 2019 proceedings from the @tolkiensociety.org

While I would have loved to have it earlier, it is important to acknowledge that the editing work has been on a volunteer basis – many thanks to @willsherwood.bsky.social

www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/01/new-...
New Society publication – Proceedings of the Tolkien 2019 Conference
The Tolkien Society and Luna Press Publishing are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the Tolkien 2019 Conference will be published on 28th February, and is now available to pre-order. Edited ...
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January 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Marcel’s “Roving Ranger” newsletter is very much worth one’s time (& a contribution on Steady)
January 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Re-ordering my office and thought it was time for a couple of new #Tolkien #Shelfie

The bottom shelves hold @mythlore.bsky.social, "Inklings Studies", "Lembas Extra" from Unquendor, Peter Roe booklets, and on the other, my copies of "Amon Hen" from @tolkiensociety.org
January 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In Bree (the Copenhagen Smial & TS) we will meet and have a nice meal together before ending the day with the Birthday Toast. 🍻🥃

I look very much forward to that!
January 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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So, the “Perspectives on Fantasy” book series (Bloomsbury) I’m co-editing with @mjrsangster.bsky.social and Brian Attebery has grown! 6 books out (left) and more due out soon (right)! And even more that don’t have a cover as yet! Will post updates!
Series website: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/pe...
November 26, 2024 at 6:56 PM
So ... the end!

I have compiled 10 pages of notes from the Christopher #Tolkien Centenary Conference over this weekend.

I am enthused, energised, and at the same time exhausted.

What a wonderful weekend!! Thank you, again, to all involved!

#CJRT100
November 24, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Some speakers reach out to all their audience – Verlyn Flieger draws us in to an almost intimate space. She is truly a wonderful speaker as well as an extraordinary Tolkien scholar.

#CJRT100
November 24, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Verlyn Flieger!!! 🤩

#CJRT100
November 24, 2024 at 7:17 PM
... and now Michael Drout is being followed by James Tauber.

This physicist is getting a double-nerd-out evening 😅

#CJRT100
November 24, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I can't help myself but absolutely LOVE 😍 the use of various multivariate techniques from linear algebra on word frequencies in "The Lord of the Rings" by #Tolkien .

Michael Drout using this to tie to the revision history of a chapter just makes it even better!

#CJRT100
November 24, 2024 at 6:40 PM
There's a break in the Christopher #Tolkien Centenary Conference, and our tea isn't quite ready yet ... so of course I spend the time reading in Shippey's “The Road to Middle-earth” ... I mean ... what else? 😂

#CJRT100
#TolkienNerd
November 24, 2024 at 5:44 PM
That was a thought-provoking talk by Robin Reid, thank you!

#CJRT100
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference
The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce it will be hosting the online Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November 2024. This November marks 100 years since th...
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November 24, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Wonderfully close reading of Christopher Tolkien's comments on "The Lay of Leithian" in "The Lays of Beleriand" highlighting CJRT as a reader of his father's work.

A consideration of the individual words worthy of the Tolkiens.

#CJRT100
November 24, 2024 at 4:35 PM
So great to hear about Christopher Tolkien as a medieaval scholar in his own right!

Nicholas Birns right now and of course also Doug Anderson yesterday. Really interesting!

#CJRT100
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference
The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce it will be hosting the online Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November 2024. This November marks 100 years since th...
www.tolkiensociety.org
November 24, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Listening to Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond ... and fanboying just a bit ...

#CJRT100
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference
The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce it will be hosting the online Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November 2024. This November marks 100 years since th...
www.tolkiensociety.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Kristine Larsen continues on the Athrabeth – this time on layers of notes on notes on notes on notes on ...

Wonderful stuff!

#CJRT100
November 24, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Even better than hoped for!! Thank you so much, Sara @aranelparmadil.bsky.social
#CJRT
November 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Now getting excited for Sara Brown's paper, ““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”

#CJRT100

www.tolkiensociety.org/events/chris...
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference
The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce it will be hosting the online Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November 2024. This November marks 100 years since th...
www.tolkiensociety.org
November 24, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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As my friend @EndOfThePier says, rectangular Christmas gifts are easier to pack! The paperbacks of both my #Tolkien, Race and Cultural History, and Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy are at around £20 from various outlets for the next 10 days or so! (Links below) 🎄📚
November 24, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Absolutely fascinating talk by Jessica Yates about "Christopher Tolkien’s Lectures at Oxford". #CJRT100

Christopher being a much clearer speaker at lectures than his father allowed her to take copious notes during lectures ...
November 24, 2024 at 12:18 PM
I found Sonali's paper quite interesting, but also at times rather difficult to follow (talking fast about complex matters in a dense presentation). I hope this one will be uploaded to allow listening at a more personalised pace (read, slower for the slower minded 😅)
November 24, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Brilliant talk by Nick Groom on “Forewords and Prefaces – or Apologies? Christopher Tolkien’s Prologues to ‘The History of Middle-earth’”!
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference #CJRT100 @tolkiensociety.org
November 24, 2024 at 11:19 AM
A huge shout-out of gratitude to the volunteers of the @tolkiensociety.org who have arranged the Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference.

Hannah, @drhannahmcd.bsky.social
Elena, @anorwyn.bsky.social
Will, @willsherwood.bsky.social
Asli,
and all others involved!

THANK YOU!! 🙏 🤩 🥰
November 24, 2024 at 10:49 AM
No extraneous obligations today ... all set and ready for a full day of fabulastic talks at the Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference hosted by the brilliant @drhannahmcd.bsky.social for the @tolkiensociety.org (a bit of nerd heaven, really 😜)

Getting all excited once more 😀 🤩
November 24, 2024 at 10:01 AM