Death, Grief, and the Other in the "Quenta Silmarillion"
The narrator of the Quenta Silmarillion uses death, grief, and mourning rituals to generate sympathy for or dehumanize groups of characters considered the Other.
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Death, Grief, and the Other in the "Quenta Silmarillion"
Published on 7 September 2024 | Conference Paper
The narrator of the Quenta Silmarillion uses death, grief, and mourning rituals to generate sympathy for or dehumanize groups of characters considered the Other.
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Topic: Historical Bias, Historiography and Tolkien, Tolkien Studies
Characters: Pengolodh
Grief, Grieving, and Permission to Mourn in the "Quenta Silmarillion"
Published on 12 April 2024 | Conference Paper
In the Quenta Silmarillion, the narrator of The Silmarillion allows characters to experience grief and express mourning in different ways, reflecting the biases that he brings to the text.
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Topic: Historical Bias, Historiography and Tolkien, Tolkien Studies
Characters: Pengolodh
(Re)Archive: The Rise and Fall (and Rebound?) of Independent Fanfiction Archives
Published on 9 October 2023 | Conference Paper
Early online fandoms had multitudes of small, often highly specialized fan-run archives. Presented at the Fan Studies Network North America 2023 conference, this presentation looks at archive trends in the Tolkien and Harry Potter fandoms, considering what factors lead to the proliferation, decline, and closure of small archives, including what it means to "rearchive" after an era of high archive closure and consolidation.
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Topic: Fandom History
Characters: No characters listed.
A Fanworks Ecumenopolis: Tolkien Fanfiction Archives and the Implications of Consolidation
Published on 14 October 2022 | Conference Paper
Presented at the Fan Studies Network North America conference in 2022, this presentation uses the concept of the "world city" or ecumenopolis as a metaphor for the infrastructure for archiving fanworks in the early 2020s, taking Tolkien fanfiction as a case study. As the extreme archival fragmentation of the Tolkien fandom gave way to growing consolidation onto the Archive of Our Own, questions arise concerning the future of fandom archiving and whether this consolidation poses risks of not just data loss but cultural loss as well.
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Topic: Fandom Culture, Fandom History
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Affirmational and Transformational Values and Practices in the Tolkien Fanfiction Community
Published on 19 January 2020 | Article
Using survey data, primary historical sources, and existing scholarship, this article makes the case that writers of Tolkien-based fanfiction value elements of both affirmational and transformational fandom. The navigation of canon, authority, criticism, and reparation is complex and shapes not only the stories authors tell but the communities they build. Published in the Journal of Tolkien Research.
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Topic: Fandom Culture, Fandom History
Characters: No characters listed.