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Still Perilous, Still Fair: Perspectives On The Legacy, Or How (Not)Eowyn And (Not)Galadriel Made The Magic Work, Janet Croft, Leslie Donovan
Still Perilous, Still Fair: Perspectives On The Legacy, Or How (Not)Eowyn And (Not)Galadriel Made The Magic Work, Janet Croft, Leslie Donovan
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
An informal and wide-ranging conversation between the co-editors of Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien will cover the genesis and development of the project and the pitfalls and traps for the unwary we encountered along the way. We'll talk about the technicalities of our process as editors -- from developing the call for papers through choosing the cover art. And we'll assess the influence the collection has had on subsequent scholarship, and the continuing significance of some of the work included.
More Perilous And Fair, Cami Agan, Clare Moore, Robin A. Reid Dr.
More Perilous And Fair, Cami Agan, Clare Moore, Robin A. Reid Dr.
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
An overview of the conference's theme and speakers.
Queen's Pride: A Queer Reading Of Star Wars Character Padmé Amidala, Madeleine Loewen
Queen's Pride: A Queer Reading Of Star Wars Character Padmé Amidala, Madeleine Loewen
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
Ever since Luke Skywalker and Han Solo first appeared onscreen together in 1977, LGBTQ+ Star Wars fans have harnessed the power of queer reading to write themselves back into a galaxy far, far away, despite Lucasfilm’s long-term disapproval of such practices. Nonetheless, there exists little scholarly literature on queerness in the franchise, and even less on the potentially sapphic characters. Queen Padmé Amidala, first introduced onscreen in Episode I: The Phantom Menace, proves a surprising—but no less salient—queer figure in Star Wars. From her intimate relationships with her handmaidens, to her experimentation with gender performativity, to her quiet yet …
More To The Hobbit Than Meets The Eye: Deconstructing Femininity In Bilbo Baggins, Pieter Conradie
More To The Hobbit Than Meets The Eye: Deconstructing Femininity In Bilbo Baggins, Pieter Conradie
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
Femininity in JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit has long been read as virtually non-existent. Although Tolkien’s 1937 text remains a compelling story, this absence often means that female readers struggle to find themselves represented in the text. New strains of scholarship, however, claim that by her appearance, interests, behaviour and positioning in a patriarchal society, Bilbo Baggins appears to be more of a woman than a man. In this presentation I take up these emerging arguments, showing how gender relations in The Hobbit deconstruct. In Bilbo and Bilbo’s parents, traditional gender roles are reversed, but ultimately merged. The outcome is a …
Trans Inequity, Intersectional Ritual, And Jewish Tikkun Olam (Healing Of The World), Valerie Estelle Frankel
Trans Inequity, Intersectional Ritual, And Jewish Tikkun Olam (Healing Of The World), Valerie Estelle Frankel
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
As Jewish science fiction expands into twenty-first-century questions of identity, some authors explore the trans experience and build bridges towards intersectionality. Ritual and tradition become popular subjects. In the post-apocalyptic Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud by Andrew Ramer, diverse rabbis create new prayers and practices. A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys offers protagonists from a diverse commune who welcome aliens and rise up against the corporations. Bogi Takács’ short story “Three Partitions” questions where to segregate the shapeshifting Adira, and how the Orthodox space colony can change. Several of these stories ask how comfortable Jewish protagonists are with alien rituals …
Sauron, Seduction, And The Queering Mechanism Of The Ring, Mercury Natis
Sauron, Seduction, And The Queering Mechanism Of The Ring, Mercury Natis
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
It has often been argued that Sauron is barely present in The Lord of the Rings, existing as a villainous presence on the margins of the narrative. This paper will argue that Sauron is present throughout the entire narrative as manifested in the Ring, and through the Ring’s presence as a queering device. The Ring acts out Sauron’s seduction mechanism, a defining character trait as portrayed in the Silmarillion. It is this seduction mechanism that allows the Ring to act as a queering agent throughout the narrative. Ring-lust is inherently queer as it projects a male-presented character’s seductive powers, …
The Mariner (And His Wife): Rethinking Aldarion's (A)Sexuality, Rory M. Queripel
The Mariner (And His Wife): Rethinking Aldarion's (A)Sexuality, Rory M. Queripel
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
“Aldarion and Erendis” (Unfinished Tales) is a rare example in Tolkien’s work of a marriage gone severely awry. Many readings of the tale apportion blame to Aldarion, who is seen as “unwilling” to make the marriage work, and cruel and unfeeling towards Erendis, who herself is characterised as resentful and unaccepting. However, these readings rely on an assumption of a cisheteronormative and, more importantly, allosexual relationship between the couple. This paper proposes an alternate view of Aldarion and his role in the story, suggesting the possibility that he is asexual and/or aromantic (i.e., he does not experience sexual …
Gazing Queerly: The Art And Text Around Saruman’S Non-Normativity, Christopher Vaccaro
Gazing Queerly: The Art And Text Around Saruman’S Non-Normativity, Christopher Vaccaro
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
Saruman is an example of a an outsider character in relation to the normative communities in The Lord of the Rings; he serves as a repository for a stigmatized eros, a non-normative desire, a repressed sexuality, and even an orcish sadomasochism simmering just below the narrative’s surface. This paper examines the representation of this queer relationship in several artists’ depictions of Saruman, focusing in particular on three works by Donato Giancola.
Cruising Faërie: Further Notes On Queering Faith In Fantasy Literature, Taylor Driggers
Cruising Faërie: Further Notes On Queering Faith In Fantasy Literature, Taylor Driggers
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
In Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature (2022), I argue that fantasy affords sexually marginalized people the ability to re-vision Christian theology in queer ways, thanks to its fixation on strange bodies, its longing for other worlds, and the ways in which both of these may reflect back on theological narratives of incarnation and salvation. Yet this project raises further questions that remain unresolved: namely, how might the framework of Christian theology constrain, as well as illuminate, queer imaginaries? If fantasy allows us to envision livable lives for ourselves as unruly bodies, just what forms of relating may those lives entail? …
"Something Mighty Queer" [Introduction], Alicia Fox-Lenz, Grace Moone, Leah Hagan
"Something Mighty Queer" [Introduction], Alicia Fox-Lenz, Grace Moone, Leah Hagan
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
Recounts the origin of the conference theme and introduces the contributors.