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2021 National Congress: virtual

Tolkien Studies IV: Race and racisms in Tolkien’s secondary and our primary worlds

3 June 2021 20:30 utc — view in local time

session chair: Robin Anne Reid, independent scholar

Papers

№ 1: “Where shadows lie”: Middle-earth and Neo-fascist metapolitics

Craig N. Franson, Associate Professor of English, La Salle University

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№ 2: More dangerous and less wise: Racial hierarchies and cultural difference in Tolkien’s world

Robert T. Tally, Jr., Professor of English, Texas State University

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№ 3: Scales of malice: The banal evil of Middle-earth’s tyrant-history

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№ 4: Race in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and in Katherine Adison’s The Goblin Emperor

Robin Anne Reid, independent scholar

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