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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 5d

Thanks, Tom! Glad it’s been enjoyable

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 6d

Clare is awesome! 🤘🏼

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 7d

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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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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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 10d

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with Matthew Distefano from Quoir and the Heretic Happy Hour podcast to talk Tolkien and the release of his new book, Letters from the Shire: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 15d

Keep Tolkien’s name out yo F*CKIN’ MOUTH

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 16d

Spent my Hobbit Day making second breakfast, Beorn’s honey cakes, and reading some new Tolkien scholarship! Cheers, everyone!

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 16d

You can stick a name tag with the name “Jesus” written on it on Rambo and, sure, the name of Jesus is invoked, but that still doesn’t make Rambo Jesus. It just makes Rambo an imposter and those who worship him dishonest

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 20d

Bills were 1st and 20 and the Dolphins give them a 19-yard completion for Josh Allen—worst defense in the League, good lord #BUFvsMIA

Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 23d

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @willnrose.bsky.social and others from @systematicgeek.bsky.social where we talk #Tolkien, fandom, and what it means to be a good fan in the world! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Sep 5

Very stoked to read this one

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Sep 3

RIP to our boy

Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · Sep 2

On 2 September 1973 J.R.R. #Tolkien died aged 81. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is the best-selling book of the 20th Century, and is joined by seminal works The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.

He may have died 52 years ago but his influence and legacy lives on in us all. Namárië. #BookSky

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Sep 1

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @leahrobinson.bsky.social where we talk C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, and Bad Theology. What does it mean to be a good fan, thinkers, and person overall? Listen to find out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Aug 21

Check out this recent title from McFarland in which I contributed a chapter on Eucatastrophe in Avatar: The Last Airbender 😎 mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theo...

Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Aug 21

My wife and I currently have an arrangement for where she’s agreed to read LOTR is if I go through ACOTAR. I recently finished chapter 54 and 55 of Mist and Fury and, I say this with the utmost compliment, y’all are WILDIN

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Aug 16

New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @teachingwithmagic.bsky.social We talk Tolkien, pop culture, education, and how they can be brought together! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Aug 13

Dude. What. In. The. Hell. What’s next? Left Behind blockbusters and Bible Code books?? Also, Peter Thiel? Really? That’s the guy they’re swooning over as an icon for evangelism? I want to get off this train lol

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Aug 3

I grew up on these streets

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Aug 2

Literally had someone ask me this today in response to a point about Israel deliberately starving Palestinian babies death.

Despicable callousness. Beyond inhumane. There’s nothing to say to such cruel people. Let’s instead continue to raise our voices & actions relentlessly to end this genocide.

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Aug 1

I’ve gotten a podcast going for Tolkien Pop! And I have an awesome conversation with Ryan Does from Across the Bifrost: The Mighty Thor poscast about Thor, Tolkien, and the Eddas. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Tolkien Pop! Podcast

Society & Culture Podcast · Where Tolkien and Pop Culture Collide tolkienpop.substack.com

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Jul 27

You’re going ton absolutely rock it, dude!

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Jul 26

I love South Park and the latest season opener was a BANGER. I also have one of the few peer reviewed articles on Tolkien and South Park that you can read for free here: academia.edu/resource/wor...

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Jul 24

This is vomit-inducing. Another eyewitness account of the literal starving and murdering of innocent men, women, and children Free Palestine 🇵🇸

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 23

🇺🇸 contractor who left GHF on aid distribution in Gaza: “I’ve never in my military career been a part of this use of force against unarmed civilians… there is no fixing this. It needs to be ended.”

(Trump state Department spox Tammy Bruce calls it “a tremendous success” as people die daily)

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Jul 20

I love that reconstructed Medieval English style. I think Tolkien was horrible at it in The Book of Lost Tales and some earlier writings, but I think Eddison is masterful with it

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · Jul 20

About halfway through The Worm Ouroboros. Probably the most beautiful prose I’ve read in fantasy and in the running for most beautiful in fiction in general, for me

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