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Finished #LostTales vol. 1 right before the new year.

My 2022 #Tolkien #ReRead included #TheSilmarillion, #LordoftheRings, #TheHobbit, #UnfinishedTales, & #LostTales 1.

Pausing now to read #Jemisin's #TheCityWeBecame.

#AmericanId #EyeofSauron #Fantasy

Continuing my #Tolkien #ReRead with #LostTales vol. 1.

The Gnomes have crossed the ice, & the sun & moon ships are finally sailing the heavens.

Eriol's inexplicable desire for mythic exposition continues unabated.

#AmericanId #EyeofSauron #TheHobbit #Hobbit #LOTR #RingsofPower

#Grades are posted! Let the vacation work commence!

With any luck, we'll finally get to finish the next #podcast episode in our #EyeofSauron series. It's on #ChristianNationalism in the wake of #PeterJackson's #LordoftheRings films.

And hopefully I'll finally get to writing that book chapter on #Tolkien & the far right that I've had to put off for the last...

What year is it?

#RingsofPower #LOTR #TheHobbit #AmericanId #Politics #Fascism

For new #Mastodon users:

#AmericanId is a little, occasional, political #podcast by Craig Franson (posting) & Dani Holtz.

I'm an English professor & Dani's a US #historian, & we both research conservatism & the far-right.

We're in the middle of a series on right-wing fans of #Tolkien's #LordoftheRings called #EyeofSauron, so I'm currently posting a lot about #fantasy & the US #CultureWar.

I also post about #racism, #rightwing #extremism, #ChristianNationalism, & neo-#fascism.

Dropping tags for #AmericanId 's ongoing #podcast series, #EyeofSauron, on #Tolkien & the #American political right.

We use the #history of #LOTR's right-wing #fandom to tell the story of how #RightWing activists spent decades bringing #America to the brink of #autocracy.

#RingsofPower #LordoftheRings #MiddleEarth #Galadriel #Sauron #Frodo #Hobbit #Halbrand #Gandalf #hippies #conservative #politics #trolls #ElonMusk #fascism #racism #hate #antisemitism #misogyny #FarRight #Amazon #election