Dawn Walls-Thumma
Positions
- Humanities teacher, Coventry Village School
Fiction writer, teacher, and independent Tolkien scholar. Founder of the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild.
On the web
Conferences
- 14 April 2022. Author, Point of view and in-universe authorship of the “Silmarillion”. In PCA 2022 National Conference: Tolkien Studies 1
- 4 July 2021. Author, Stars less strange: An analysis of fanfiction and representation within the Tolkien fan community. In Tolkien Society Summer Seminar 2021: Sunday session № 2
- 3 June 2021. Author, The pillar and the vastness: A longitudinal view of the Tolkien fanfiction fandom. In Tolkien Studies V: Tolkien’s fandoms
- 2 June 2021. Participant, Tolkien Studies III: A roundtable on Tolkien reception studies, at PCA 2021 National Conference.
- 10 April 2021. Author, Ox bones and silver ladles: The construction of the Ainulindalë. In Tolkien in Vermont 2022 session 4
- 6 April 2019. Author, The most important characters never named: Unveiling the narrators of The Silmarillion. In Tolkien in Vermont 2019 session 4
Authoritative information may be found here and here and here and here.