Should I be? Everything I do has been done and is being done by others, thank goodness, but the combination may be unusual. The philology/linguistic reconstruction work was inspired by #Tolkien and made possible by the incredible scholarly work of Korean historical linguists; I center female and queer characters as inspired by other female and queer writers; I write in #HistoricalFiction which is a well-established genre; the language I write in is English but the subject matter is usually East Asian/Korean.

Should I be? Everything I do has been done and is being done by others, thank goodness, but the combination may be unusual. The philology/linguistic reconstruction work was inspired by #Tolkien and made possible by the incredible scholarly work of Korean historical linguists; I center female and queer characters as inspired by other female and queer writers; I write in #HistoricalFiction which is a well-established genre; the language I write in is English but the subject matter is usually East Asian/Korean.

Is there any essential #fantasy #books besides #Tolkien 's Lord of the Ring et al?

#Reading

"Also I particularly like #Esperanto, not least because it is the creation of one man, not a philologist, and is therefore something like a 'human language bereft of the inconveniences due to too many successive cooks'--which is as good a description of the ideal artificial language (in a particular sense) as I can give."

- JRR #Tolkien, A Secret Vice (1931) #conlang

"Also I particularly like #Esperanto, not least because it is the creation of one man, not a philologist, and is therefore something like a 'human language bereft of the inconveniences due to too many successive cooks'--which is as good a description of the ideal artificial language (in a particular sense) as I can give."

- JRR #Tolkien, A Secret Vice (1931) #conlang

Amused that #Tolkien referred to his lecture on #conlang as "A Secret Vice" as though it were some kink or fetish xD

Although Tolkien famously decried any attempt to read The Lord of the Rings as an allegory, it's plain that it's impossible to read LotR as anything but allegorical, especially when you consider his personal history as a soldier and his avowed pastoralism and opposition to industrialism.

His works have racism baked into their very bones, and people get very angry when you point this out. #books

Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey et plusieurs milliardaires de la tech créent la banque Erebor

https://next.ink/brief_article/peter-thiel-palmer-luckey-et-plusieurs-milliardaires-de-la-tech-creent-la-banque-erebor/

#next #thiel #tolkien

Au hasard d'un mail de collègue, j'apprends que ma thèse est (enfin!) en ligne : la #reception de l'oeuvre de #Tolkien par ses #fans (UK, US, France) jusque 1992. Pour les curieux ou courageux, c'est par ici:
https://theses.fr/2020ARTO0009