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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 5d

Yay Tim!!! ✨💖✨

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 6d

It’s our pal @clarelmoore.bsky.social! Can’t wait to check this out! ✨

Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 7d

Anotha one: New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @clarelmoore.bsky.social who is a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow, researching disability in Tolkien’s legendarium. She gives insight into feminist and disability thought in Tolkien’s works: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 7d

It’s October 18!!!!! Whyyyy did we not write the date!?! 🙄

October 18, put it in your planners sweeties! 💚🥰

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 7d

OMG we didn’t say the day!!!!! Ahhhh! Athrabeth is famously bad at Social Media. I’m sorry!

Cheers to October 18!

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 7d

We are so excited for the upcoming @tolkiensociety.org Seminar, “Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments”!

The sessions look absolutely ✨fantastic✨!

It’s free for Tolkien Society members and it’s online! Check out the website below to register!

www.tolkiensociety.org/events/semin...

Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 – Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments

The Tolkien Society Seminar is a short conference of both researcher-led and non-academic presentations on a specific theme pertaining to Tolkien scholarship. After the seminar, all paper recordings f...

www.tolkiensociety.org

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 7d

Thanks Clare! Check out the You Tube link to see the slides! :)

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 7d

This month we discuss Oxonmoot and our session “Tolkien’s Try-hard Troublemakers” with Dr. Kristine Larsen and @aranelparmadil.bsky.social. Thank you Kris and Sara for joining us!

athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

For the slides, check out the episode on YouTube: youtu.be/i--2o37rayM

Selfie style group photo of Stef, Jude, Sara Brown and Kristine Larsen at Oxonmoot 2025

Group photo of Stef, Jude, Sara Brown and Kristine Larsen in front of our slides at Oxonmoot 2025

Photo of the room with our wonderful attendees at Oxonmoot.

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 12d

Oh pish posh to them. Sashay away from the nonbelievers.

Love you guys! 💚

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 19d

Ooh hey! It’s us and @knewbettadobetta.bsky.social! 💚

Westmoot @westmoot.org · 19d

At #Westmoot25, the Athrabeth podcast presented, “The Unsung Underachievers of Tolkien’s Legendarium” with special guest Knewbettadobetta, each choosing a character from Tolkien’s work who they think did not live up to their potential, the ‘wet noodles’ of Arda.

#westmoot #intothewest

Three individuals, Stef Midlock, Jude Vais, and Willie Jenkins, seated at a table, each with a microphone, engaged in discussion at Westmoot 2025.

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Game MONSTER Monday 🍉 🎃 @gamemastermonday.bsky.social · 20d

Today feels like a good day to remind folks that our next season of Cast Away will be raising funds for @lambdalegal.org

In these, uh, "times" we continue to seek out the orgs and people who are doing the most good for the most people

We stand with the Trans Community. Always.

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Joel Merriner @joelmerriner.bsky.social · 21d

My book Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc is released into the wild today! Here's a quick peek at a few more pages, artwork here by Győző Vida, Yassen Panov, Alexander Korotich and Sergei Iukhimov #Tolkien www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustrat...

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 9

Thank you so much for coming, Alan! Your support means a lot! We’re so glad you liked the session! 💚

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 8

Being a part of the Tolkien shelves is a HUGE honor, thank you so much, Ed! ✨💖✨

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 8

It was so fun! Thank you to our guests @aranelparmadil.bsky.social and @jrrtastrochick.bsky.social, you were both spectacular and hilarious!

Thank you to the @tolkiensociety.org for having us back! 💚

Thank you to all the wonderful folks who came and tuned in online! We appreciate you!

#oxonmoot

Stef Midlock, Jude Vais, Sara Brown, and Kristine Larsen share a selfie after their session at Oxonmoot 2025!

Sara Brown and Kristine Larsen before the session at Oxonmoot 2025!

Stef Midlock, Jude Vais, Sara Brown, and Kristine Larsen share a group shot after their session at Oxonmoot 2025!

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 8

We’re glad you like it! You know we can’t resist a dumb joke. 🤣

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 6

Today is the day!

Folks attending #Oxonmoot in person or online, come join us at 11:00 am BST for “Athrabeth Podcast Live: Tolkien's Try-hard Troublemakers” with the extremely cool @aranelparmadil.bsky.social and @jrrtastrochick.bsky.social!

See you soon @tolkiensociety.org!

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AthraPlay RPG Podcast @athraplay.athrabeth.com · Sep 4

Oxonmoot has officially begun and Stef, Jude, and Tori are there! Please stop by and say hi to us and drop by @podcast.athrabeth.com 's live podcast recording on Saturday! #oxonmoot

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 5

Thank you for listening, Clare! Luke was fantastic! 💚

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 5

Westmoot folks who are attending Oxonmoot this weekend- we’re going to take a Westmoot group photo in front of the dining hall at 11:30! Spread the word!

#westmoot #oxonmoot #intothewest

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 4

🎼🎶The boys are back in town!🎵🎶

#oxonmoot

Stef Midlock @stef.athrabeth.com · Sep 4

A great morning with @itstoriello.bsky.social and @jude.athrabeth.com at the Bodleian Libraries!

#oxonmoot

Stef, Tori and Jude posse in the Proscholium outside the Old Bodliean Library.

Tori and Jude in the Divinity School in the Bodliean Libraries. Beautiful vaulted ceilings are seen above them.

Tori poses in the beautifully wood paneled Duke Humphrey’s Library.

Jude outside the Sheldonian Theatre on Broad Steet in Oxford, posting with a sculpture- the head of a man with a voluminous beard.

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 4

Hey folks attending #oxonmoot in person- we have a special Athrabeth sticker and badge for the event!

Jude and Stef would love to give you one, so please come find us!

Design is by the amazing Shawn Decker!

(For those coming to our panel on Saturday, there is a sparkly one!)

#athrabethpodcast

Jude holds up a pin badge and a a sticker with the Oxonmoot 2025 Athrabeth design.

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 3

You’re lovely, Rob! Thank you, friend! 🥰

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 3

Hehehehe not at all! Some of that is Jude and me (Hi it’s me Stef) rambling up top. You know how we are. Haha!

This episode (your work) is so amazing, it makes me emotional. 💜

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 3

Thank YOU, Luke! Thank you for being so generous with your time, and with your support over the years. We are so lucky to have you as a friend. Thank you again! 💚

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · Sep 3

The band is back together! We are in Oxford and we’re ready to MOOT!

See you tomorrow @tolkiensociety.org!

#oxonmoot #athrabethpodcast

Stef and Jude take an unflattering selfie in the Museum of Natural History in Oxford. There are dinosaur bones in the background.

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