The articles I was waiting on from ILL have come in, so here's a revised list of what I've collected so far (not including the random Orc articles, those I have elsewhere.)  Currently 39 articles.  I'm thinking about going through these in order of publication and have started by reading some of the 2004s.

• Abrahamson 2013 - J.R.R. Tolkien ( Read more... )

The quote is not from an Orc article as such but touches intelligently on Orcs and goes to a quality I've often referred to in discussions about them: their modernity in comparison to other beings in the narrative.  Hobbits are "modern" too, albeit in a different way.  It also goes to what one might as well refer to as Orkish trauma.

"In The Lord ( Read more... )

Well, then! a Challenge for you!

Five links to fandom classics I wouldn't find on AO3 (or at least, not unless I knew exactly what to look for in the search which is a gamble at best or had time to scroll through 4 million pages of works)
- Random challenge in the comments for Why We Need Small Archives, left by heartofoshun ( Read more... )

I have so many articles!  With another four that I still have to request by other means, and I'm sure I'll find more as I continue to poke around, but in the meantime here's what I've got.  Although, before I actually post this list, I have to give thanks for this article (Read more... )

Memorial Day Weekend was pleasant.  We got home Monday evening and I spent a few hours on "homework": that is, a broad Google search of PDF articles re: Tolkien fanfiction.  Queries I used:

filetype:pdf "lord of the rings" "fanfiction ( Read more... )

Hi all ( Read more... )

Been a long time since I logged in here, and of course to get anywhere I was forced to sign the new user agreement for using lj.  Since a forced agreement was the only way I could get in to access my own previously established content, I consider it about as binding as any social media agreement made under duress, which is to say not veryAnyway.  ( Read more... )

Counting down to midnight with my beautiful new wife and very dear friend.  Best wishes to all in the coming year.

This morning KJ went out to start her car.  She came back in and said, "Well, it took a while to start, but it's going now.  Funny thing, it's not that cold out ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's not really spring, but I'm doing some sprucing up on my Flickr page, and I posted a link to a very nice image by Illvetti on my Orc-brat art and other eclectia page that I should have put up, like, three months ago. [pained]  Anyway, it's a lovely image of three vignettes from OB, most notably one of a pained Bragdagash as broodmother ( Read more... )