Event Category: Online Event
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Writer’s Forge: The Shape of Story
The Wordsmiths of the Writer’s Forge bring you the first in a short series of Tools for the Toolbox. Friday the 16th at 6pm Eastern, The Shape of Story. Plenty of folks will tell you they have the One True Method of plotting out a story. But what if each form is valid and strong…
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Thesis Theater: Nadia Schafer, “One Strange (s)Elf: Deep Ecology, Decolonization, and the Radical Hope of Legolas Greenleaf”
Join us on September 5th at 7pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore issues that concern us today, and were ahead of their time in Tolkien’s writings.
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Thesis Theater: Jacob R. Schreiner, “The Logos of Faith: Sub-creation through Speech-Acts in Tolkien’s Legendarium”
Join us on June 1st at 12pm (noon) ET for a Thesis Theater to explore J.R.R. Tolkien’s powerful concept of Sub-Creation and further ways to understand and perhaps, once explored, make use of it.
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Thesis Theater: Miriam Davidson, “The Sword Not for its Sharpness: Nonviolent Countercurrents in Tolkien’s Epic of War”
Join us on May 26th at 3pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore the relevant description and surprising complexity of war in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings; a timely topic.
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Thesis Theater: Emily Austin, “The Road Gives Ever On: Following the Road Motif in The Lord of the Rings.”
Join us on May 21st at 11am ET for a Thesis Theater to explore the theme of the journey in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and perhaps maybe, our own.
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Thesis Theater: Taylor Johnson Guinan, “Only in Dying Life: Ventures into the Land of the Dead in Children’s Fantasy Literature”
Join us on May 7th at 12pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore this journey into Children’s Fantasy.
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Thesis Theatre: Phil Knight, “Drauma-Jóns Saga: A Digital Edition and Translation”
Join us on April 15th at 3pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore this Norse-Icelandic Saga.
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Series Theory: Examining the Structure of the Modern Fantasy Epic — Thesis Theatre by Elise Trudel Cedeño
Join us on January 5 at 10am ET for a Thesis Theater on the structure of the modern fantasy epic.
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Thesis Theater: Ryan Moniz, “Brewing Óðinn’s Mead: A Reconstructive Approach to Germanic Verse Formula”
Join us on Saturday, December 11, at 1pm ET for a Thesis Theater on Germanic Verse Formula.
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Thesis Theater: Eugene Sullivan, “Red Indians in Middle Earth: The Woses of Drúadan Forest and the Racial Landscape of Tolkien’s Legendarium”
Join us on Thursday, November 18, at 2pm ET for a Thesis Theater on Tolkien’s Legendarium.