Archive - Partners in Making and Delight

Reading Sam and Frodo through the Greek Loves

A conference paper, from me to you!

Apr 4 •

December 2024

Notes from the Road: Peter Jackson's Trilogy as Gothic Double

Jes Battis planted a seed in my head and now I'm going to plant it in yours.

Dec 26, 2024 •

July 2024

A few updates from the road

The road goes ever on and on indeed!

Jul 9, 2024 •

May 2024

Rings of Power's Celebrimbor Problem: S1 EDITION

I'm just so tired, I don't know that I can do this for another four seasons.

May 17, 2024 •

March 2024

Two Jews discuss the Jewishness of Dwarves: an Interview! (Part 2)

In which the conversation continues, including discussions of the Hobbit, Fanfiction, Gender, and Rings of Power.

Mar 12, 2024 •

Two Jews discuss the Jewishness of Dwarves: an Interview! (Part 1)

A follow up to my Tolkien Society Seminar paper

Mar 12, 2024 •

December 2023

Tolkien, Rings of Power, and the spectre of Orientalism

One part publication announcement, one part the Rings of Power production team doing my head in, and a whole lot of Edward Said frowning and sighing.

Dec 26, 2023 •

November 2023

New Podcast Episode: Talking Angbang with Queer Lodgings

A very scholarly but NSFW discussion

Nov 5, 2023 •

October 2023

Gender Essentialism in Amazon's The Rings of Power (season one)

Or: is it accurate to Tolkien's mythos to strictly conform to the gender binary? Not really.

Oct 27, 2023 •

August 2023

Let's go, Meletheldi, Let's go!

Revisiting a footnote, analyzing Tolkien's description of same-sex love in Nature of Middle-earth

Aug 20, 2023 •

July 2023

Take Life Less Seriously (can you feel my Kenergy?)

Barbenheimer Day 2: A Barbie Review, but really a primer on what makes Barbie oh-so-camp and Ken oh-so-transgender. An essay on Queer Love and Queer Joy

Jul 24, 2023 •

We Have Become Death, Destroyers of Worlds

Barbenheimer Day 1: an Oppenheimer Review

Jul 21, 2023 •

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