
From the editor’s desk: Guest editorial on diversity
Ian Collier, p. 2
Cate asked me to write a guest editorial for an issue showcasing diversity, “diversity” surely applies to a fictional world where there are multiple races and cultures, to the extent that Tolkien has been called “the creative equivalent of a people”. It was also the theme of our second seminar of the year, and I’ll be frank and admit that we didn’t expect the level of outrage the topic and papers provoked. After all, in Middle-earth, we see various disabilities (shake hands with Beren?), elves and humans having kids together, and some hobbits, dwarves, and ents, not having children at all.…