Month: January 2020

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TEP #1 — Dimitra Fimi

On By Luke SheltonIn Tolkien, Tolkien Experience PodcastLeave a comment

Our first guest on the Tolkien Experience Podcast is a longtime mentor, colleague, and friend to our hosts: Dr. Dimitra Fimi.

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Dr. Fimi is known around the world as a preeminent scholar in Tolkien studies and an influential scholar in wider fields. She is perhaps best known for her book Tolkien, Race and Cultural History, which won the 2010 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies. She also co-edited a critical edition of Tolkien’s A Secret Vice with Andrew Higgins. This volume won the 2017 Tolkien Society Award for Best Book! We are delighted that she agreed to be our first guest for the podcast, and we hope you enjoy the interview!

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If you want to see Dr. Fimi’s presentation on “Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes” from the Tolkien2019 conference, it is available on YouTube.

Publication: “The Farthest Shore” in the Literary Encyclopedia

On By Luke SheltonIn Publications1 Comment

Hello everyone!

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I am excited to share with you that my entry for Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Farthest Shore has been published in the Literary Encyclopedia!

The article is available now, but unfortunately it is a subscription service. Check with your local institutions to see if they have access!

In summary, the entry gives an overview of the plot of the work, discusses the cultural climate around its publication, summarizes the critical response to the work, and then traces a few key themes.

This is one of my favorite series, so it was a joy to revisit the book. The whole process was a fun experience, and one that I hope to repeat soon!