• Amber Lehning: Elf-songs and Orc-talk: Environmental ethics in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, from Beowulf to Peter Jackson
• Michael Joseph Urick: Theories of leadership in Middle-earth
• James Eric Siburt: Rendering visible an understanding of power in leadership in Tolkien’s creation mythology: Ainulindalë and Akallabêth

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• Meaghan Scott: The Nimrodel and Silverlode: Lothlórien as a secondary world
• Rebecca Power: Tolkien’s penchant for alliteration: Using XML to analyze ​“The lay of Leithian”
• Anna Smol: Tolkien’s New Old English genre: The homecoming of beorhtnoth
• Kristine Larsen: “I am no man”: Game of Thrones’ Lyanna Mormont as borrowed Tolkienian canonicity

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Participants include Maria Alberto, University of Utah; Cordeliah G. Logsdon, independent scholar; Dawn Walls-Thumma, Humanities teacher, Coventry Village School; Cait Coker; and Robin Anne Reid, independent scholar.

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

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• M. Lee Alexander: “Heroes of the north”: Tolkien and Finnish fandom
• Dawn Walls-Thumma: The pillar and the vastness: A longitudinal view of the Tolkien fanfiction fandom
• Cordeliah G. Logsdon: “What care I for the hands of a king?”: Tolkien, fanfiction, and narratives of the self
• Maria Alberto: Mathom economies? Fan gift culture and a Tolkien fic exchange event

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Participants include Craig N. Franson, Associate Professor of English, La Salle University; Rebecca Power; James Eric Siburt, Alvernia University; Amber Lehning; Anna Smol, Professor of English, Mount Saint Vincent University; and Kristine Larsen, Professor, Geological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University.

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