Hosts & Guests
Alicia
(she/they) A queer Tolkien scholar and Zelda nerd interested in adaptation, audience reception, and biography.
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
(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.
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
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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Episode 21 – Queer Readings: Eowyn & Faramir Part 2 – Faramir
We focus on Tolkien’s author insert, Faramir, his gender presentation, & how his softer, non-toxic masculinity compares to Denethor & Boromir
Episode 20 – Queer Readings: Eowyn & Faramir Part 1 – Eowyn
Part 1 of our Eowyn & Faramir series jumps into Eowyn’s complex gender identity & expression, and how she navigates her Rohirric gender role.
Episode 19 – Shire Quick Post – NZ Trip, ‘Something Mighty Queer’ Seminar, and Recent Tolkien Scholarship
Alicia and Tim to recount highlights of their to New Zealand. Then we discuss the upcoming online seminar we’re hosting and some recent Tolkien scholarship.