Here are the 24 brilliant Christmas picturebooks I tweeted this December as part of my #PicturebookAdventCalendar:
Revisiting Race in Tolkien’s Legendarium: Constructing Cultures and Ideologies in an Imaginary World
* This lecture was delivered as a keynote in 2012 at the Politics of Contemporary Fantasy conference at the University of Wurzburg, Germany. It revisits main ideas I explored in my 2008 book, Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History, and adds some…