Episode 58: Lesser-trod Paths with Clare Moore
Episode Summary
This month, we welcome guest host Clare Moore as she presents Tolkien’s representations of disability and impairment through the lens of disability studies in “Lesser-trod Paths with Clare Moore.”
Citations
Clare Moore can be found on Twitter: @claremoore914
YouTube presentation: “Clare Moore - 'The Problem of Pain: Portraying Physical Disability in Tolkien's Fantasy'” Originally presented at The Tolkien Society Summer Seminar, July 3, 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSj_Z5jy9w (Accessed Feb 24, 2023)
A List of Clare’s publications on “Tolkienists.org” website:
https://tolkienists.org/clare-moore/ (Accessed Feb 24, 2023)
Ria Cheyne: Disability, Literature, Genre: Representations and Affect in Contemporary Fiction
Open Source JStore link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvsn3pp7 (Accessed April 30, 2023)
Irina Metzler’s lecture: Tolkien and Disability (From the Tolkien Society Summer Seminar in 2016)
From the Tolkien Society’s YouTube: https://youtu.be/epx1d4fzmmw (Accessed April 30, 2023)
Lois Bragg, disability studies scholar:
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Lois-Bragg-2052429775 (Accessed April 30, 2023)
Dr. Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien scholar:
http://dimitrafimi.com/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)
Her book Clare mentioned: Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, November 2008): https://dimitrafimi.com/books/tolkien-race-and-cultural-history-2/
Dr. Verlyn Flieger, Tolkien scholar:
https://english.umd.edu/directory/verlyn-flieger (Accessed April 30, 2023)
Victoria Holtz Wodzak: Tolkien’s Gimpy Heroes
From Mythlore, 10-15-2018, Volume 37, Number 1: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol37/iss1/7/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)
Victoria Holtz Wodzak: Tolkien Sidelined: Constructing the Non-Combatant in The Children of Hurin
From Mythlore, 4-15-2015, Volume 33, Number 2: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiThreKudL-AhUqI0QIHVEcAGIQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdc.swosu.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1021%26context%3Dmythlore&usg=AOvVaw3sRCH2eSTO5sKMrbdmkkDa (Accessed April 30, 2023)
John Garth’s essay: The Chronology of Creation: How J.R.R. Tolkien Misremembered the Beginnings of his Mythology
Found in the book: “The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien” edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine
Author’s website: https://johngarth.co.uk/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)
Megan Whalen Turner: The Queen’s Thief series
Author’s website: http://meganwhalenturner.org/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)
Intisar Khanani: The Dauntless Path series
Author’s website: https://booksbyintisar.com/ (Accessed April 30, 2023)
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