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On J.R.R. Tolkien
- ‘Mad Elves’ and ‘Elusive Beauty’: Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien’s Mythology
- Tolkien’s ‘“Celtic” type of legends’: Merging Traditions
- Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Revisiting Race in Tolkien’s Legendarium: Constructing Cultures and Ideologies in an Imaginary World
- How to invent a Tolkien-style language (The Conversation)
- Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation
- Tolkien’s Father Christmas Letters (The Conversation)
- Riddles, Heroes, and Folktales Come True: Folklore in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (Folklore Thursday)
- Hobbit Songs and Rhymes: The Folklore of Middle-earth
- Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity
- Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings
- Review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Story of Kullervo
- Review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur
- Was Tolkien really racist? (The Conversation)
- Tolkien and Folklore: Sellic Spell and The Lay of Beowulf
- A review of Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien biopic (The TLS)
- Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption (co-authored with Mariana Rios Maldonado)
- Tolkien’s Glittering Caves of Aglarond and Cheddar Gorge and Caves in Somerset
- The Past as an Imaginary World: The Case of Medievalism (Chatterton, Tolkien, Eco)
- The Raw and the Cooked: William Morris’s Dwarf in The Wood Beyond the World, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gollum
- Tolkien’s Hobbits, a Black Rider, and a Tree Root: chasing a visual chain
- Tolkien’s Arda: An Introduction
- “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings
- Tolkien and the W.P. Ker Lecture at Glasgow
On other Fantasy works, authors and themes
- Ursula K Le Guin’s strong female voice challenged the norms of a male-dominated genre (The Conversation)
- The Owl Service at 50 (TLS Online)
- Why build new worlds (TLS Online)
- Inventing a Whole Language (TLS Online)
- After 150 years, we still haven’t solved the puzzle of Alice in Wonderland (The Conversation)
- Samhain or Halloween? The “ancient Celtic year” in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy
- Welsh Legend in Susan Cooper’s The Grey King and Jenny Nimmo’s The Snow Spider
- Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree to hit the screen in latest bid to aim fantasy at grown-ups (The Conversation)
- A time-traveling cat fantasy: Lloyd Alexander’s Time Cat
- Plastic toys and WWI trauma: Tommy in Lynne Reid Banks’ The Indian in the Cupboard
- Gnomes, Gnature, and the “Gnifty Gnomobile”: Elemental Spirits, Deforestation and Energy Systems in Transition in Upton Sinclair’s The Gnomobile