Botanist and ethnobotanist, drinker of tea and devout bookworm. Regular visitor to a number of fantasy worlds, interested in what we can bring back from the adventure.
Apparently so. Life has been quiet on the Tolkien front as I finished off my MSc, so now I have some free time and energy to get back to reading and writing without feeling guilty for what I’m not doing! I’ve not been entirely idle though — the wonderful
Having mentioned in my last update that I'd put in an abstract for the German Tolkien Society's seminar in October, I should probably update yous that it got accepted! If you were at Oxonmoot 2022, you might have been there for my very first ever conference
Hello friends! I thought it was time for a wee update here – I've not been able to do as much blogging as I wanted, but for very good reasons! Alongside my MSc project, which is going in earnest, I've been busy with Tolkien-related scholarly things.
One of the things I got to do last year, in amongst finishing one degree and starting another, moving cities, and taking on generally Too Much, was the Tolkien Society Seminar. The co-chairs were my wonderful friend and co-conspirator Clare Moore, and Journee Cotton, and the title was
Sorry, this probably means a second email in your inbox for my current subscribers, I promise I'll stop once I've done this! If you were already subscribed to the blog, you'll have seen this post explaining why we're here: https://ethnobotanistinarda.substack.