• Craig N. Franson: “Where shadows lie”: Middle-earth and neo-fascist metapolitics
• Robert T. Tally, Jr.: More dangerous and less wise: Racial hierarchies and cultural difference in Tolkien’s world
• Robin Anne Reid: Race in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and in Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor

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• Peter Grybauskas: Turin among the Great Tales
• Meaghan Scott: The Nimrodel and Silverlode
• Kristine Larsen: “I am no man”: Game of Thrones’ Lyanna Mormont as borrowed Tolkienian canonicity

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• M. Lee Alexander: “Heroes of the north”: Tolkien and Finnish fandom
• Amber Lehning: Elf-songs and Orc-talk: Environmental ethics in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, from Beowulf to Peter Jackson
• James Eric Siburt: Rendering visible an understanding of power in leadership in Tolkien’s creation mythology: Ainulindalë and Akallabêth

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Participants include Craig N. Franson, Associate Professor of English, La Salle University; Robert T. Tally, Jr., Professor of English, Texas State University; Peter Grybauskas, Senior lecturer, English, University of Maryland; James Eric Siburt, Alvernia University; and Amber Lehning.

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