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TEP #10 – Una McCormack

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It is our absolute privilege to welcome to the podcast a very notable writer and Tolkien scholar: Una McCormack!

una-hero-2-768x558A quick glance at Dr. McCormack’s website and you quickly learn that she is a New York Times bestselling author and a prolific writer of tie-in novels and short and long fiction. She is an ex-academic and loves to give public talks and engage with fans of science fiction and fantasy. What is less obvious, though, is that Dr. McCormack is also very involved with FanFiction and Fan Studies! We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we loved talking with this wonderful guest!

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The reading day mentioned by Dr. McCormack in the episode was hosted by Jeremy Edmonds of TolkienGuide.com.

TEP #9 – Dawn Walls-Thuma

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This week we journey into the realm of fan studies and fanfiction! Our guest this week created a website dedicated to stories fanfiction inspired by The Silmarillion, and has also completed excellent scholarship on fandom: Dawn Walls-Thumma!

DawnWalls-ThummaWalls-Thumma’s website The Silmarillion Writer’s Guild is a place where writers of fanfiction that were inspired by Tolkien’s work can share their stories, provide feedback for each other, and find a sense of community. We really enjoyed hearing her story about setting up the website, and think it is a great place to visit! You can also find some of her insightful and important scholarship published at The Journal of Tolkien Research. We really hope you enjoy this interview as much as we enjoyed recording it.

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Dawn Walls-Thumma’s articles “Attainable Vistas: Historical Bias in Tolkien’s Legendarium as a Motive for Transformative Fanworks” and “Affirmational and Transformational Values and Practices in the Tolkien Fanfiction Community” are both excellent and completely free!

TEP #8 – Mina Lukic

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We are so happy to share with you our interview with an up-coming Tolkien researcher, Mina Lukic!

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Mina is currently a PhD student at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her current research includes looking into how people engage with Tolkien’s work using the lenses of participatory culture and cultural heritage. You can find out more about her research on her website. You can also be a part of her research by taking the survey for her study. We are so thankful to Mina for taking the time to speak with us and we hope some of our listeners will help with her research!

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TEP #7 – Corey Olsen (Part 2)

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This month, we have a special two-part interview for you! We are elated to have as our guest the Tolkien Professor himself: Corey Olsen!

This is the second part of our interview, so please make sure to go back and listen to part one to make sure you don’t miss anything!

corey-olsen-300x300Dr. Olsen is perhaps the most prolific and popular Tolkien podcaster in the world. His series like Exploring The Lord of the Rings, The Mythgard Academy, and The Silmarillion Film Project are recorded with live audiences each week, and he has thousands of listeners. The Tolkien Professor also has a nice book which walks readers through The Hobbit. We are so thankful that Corey could take the time to talk with us for a special, extended interview!

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TEP #6 – Corey Olsen (Part 1)

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This month, we have a special two-part interview for you! We are elated to have as our guest the Tolkien Professor himself: Corey Olsen!

corey-olsen-300x300Dr. Olsen is perhaps the most prolific and popular Tolkien podcaster in the world. His series like Exploring The Lord of the Rings, The Mythgard Academy, and The Silmarillion Film Project are recorded with live audiences each week, and he has thousands of listeners. The Tolkien Professor also has a nice book which walks readers through The Hobbit. We are so thankful that Corey could take the time to talk with us for a special, extended interview. So if you enjoy this episode, make sure to subscribe and watch out for part two, coming just two weeks from today!

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TEP #5 – Shaun Gunner

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Our next guest on the Tolkien Experience Podcast has been the chair of the Tolkien Society since 2013.

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According to the society’s website, Shaun “regularly speaks about adaptations of Tolkien’s works whilst passionately believing the Society needs to reach out to new audiences.” We are so happy he could make time to talk with us for this episode!

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The Tolkien Society has many publications to its credit. You can find a complete listing on the publications page of the TS website.

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TEP #4 – James Tauber

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Our next guest on the Tolkien Experience Podcast wears many, dare we say geeky, hats. He is the founder and CEO of Eldarion, he helps develop tools for the digital humanities, he loves ancient languages, and he is the creator of DigitalTolkien.com: James Tauber!

james-tauberAll of James’s projects are impressive, but perhaps the one that most of our listeners will be drawn to is his work at DigitalTolkien.com. There James has been working on analyzing textual variants in The Silmarillion. He has also been working to apply the tools used in other areas of digital humanities to Tolkien’s texts. You can visit his website, or listen to the episode, for more information about these projects. We are delighted that he could join us!

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You can see James’s Tolkien projects at DigitalTolkien.com and find links to his other work at his personal website.

He also mentioned the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship.

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TEP #3-Andrew Higgins

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Our next guest on the Tolkien Experience Podcast is a Tolkien scholar and linguist who has very quickly become influential in the field of Tolkien Studies: Dr. Andrew Higgins!

Hy9DGUAi_400x400Dr. Higgins completed his PhD on the evolution of J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology in 2015. His doctoral research was a holistic examination of Tolkien’s earliest works in order to gain a new critical framework to examine Tolkien’s ‘early imaginative language invention’. He has also co-edited a critical edition of Tolkien’s A Secret Vice with Dimitra Fimi. This volume won the 2017 Tolkien Society Award for Best Book! We are delighted that he was able to be our guest for the podcast, and we hope you enjoy the interview!

 

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You can find the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship at elvish.org

Links to some of Dr. Higgins’s open-access articles are available at the Journal of Tolkien Research.

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TEP #2 — Janet Brennan Croft

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Our second guest on the Tolkien Experience Podcast is an editor, scholar, and librarian who has been a prolific contributor to the field of Tolkien studies: Janet Brennan Croft!

rskMSfB5_400x400Janet Brennan Croft is the editor of Mythlore, one of the most well-respected English-language peer-reviewed journals in the world that focuses on Tolkien and other mythopoeic literature. In addition to editing this influential journal, Croft has edited several collected volumes of scholarship, and is perhaps best known for her monograph: War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, which won the 2005 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies. We are very excited that she agreed to be our guest for the podcast, and we hope you enjoy the interview!

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TEP #1 — Dimitra Fimi

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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.