August 20, 2024

Episode 22

Queer Readings: Eowyn & Faramir Part 3 – Bi Wife Energy

Hosts & Guests

Alicia

Alicia

(she/they) A queer Tolkien scholar and Zelda nerd interested in adaptation, audience reception, and biography.

Grace

Grace

(she/her) An acquirer of books, a queer-rights activist, serves as as the Subscriptions Steward of the Mythopoeic Society, and is a Professional Nerd (okay, technically it’s an unpaid internship).

Leah

Leah

(she/her) Just another weird Tolkien geek living in the Grey Havens (also known as Seattle WA) with two rabbits and far too few books.

Resources

Books

Leslie Donovan “The Valkyrie Reflex.” Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie Donovan.

Nancy Entright “Tolkien’s Females and the Defining of Power.” Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie Donovan. 

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. Humphrey Carpenter.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

Melanie Rawls, “The Feminine Principle in Tolkien.” Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie Donovan.

Articles

Catherine Madsen, “A Woman of Valour: Éowyn in War and Peace.” Mallorn.

Melissa McCrory Hatcher, “Finding Woman’s Role in The Lord of the Rings.” 

Brent D. Johnson,  “Éowyn’s Grief.” Mythlore.

Melissa Smith, “At Home and Abroad: Éowyn’s Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings.” Mythlore.

Steven Brett Carter, “Faramir and the Heroic Ideal of the Twentieth Century; or, How Aragorn Died at the Somme.” Mythlore.

Sara Brown, “Éowyn it was, and Dernhelm also”: Reading the ‘Wild Shieldmaiden’ Through a Queer Lens. The Journal of Tolkien Research.

Kelsey A Fuller-Shafer, “Middle-earth’s Middleman: Exploring the Contradictory Positionalities of Faramir in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’.” Journal of Tolkien Research.

Websites

LesbiansForBoromir, Tumblr.

Media

Cringe & The Lizards, Bi-Wife Energy.

 

About This Episode

The final part of our ‘Queer Readings’ trilogy on Eowyn and Faramir. Join Alicia, Grace, and Leah as they pontificate over how Eowyn’s gender queerness and Faramir’s soft masculinity combine to form the Queer Relationship Voltron of “Bi Wife Energy”. 

Featured Art: Jenny Dolfen

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