Reposted by Christian S. TrenkWuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton 378154014303
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I speak for the rest:static.klipy.comDo ItALT: Do It 030
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A month on, I‘m still trying to make #TheOdyssee all about #Tolkien – and @thetolkienist.com kindly indulged me again. This time: unconnected observations on various parallels between Lothlórien and an important stage #Nolan omits.thetolkienist.com“then plan / how we may help his journey”: The Female Rule, Hospitality, Gift-Giving, and the Passing of Paradise in Tolkien and Homer - thetolkienist.comGuest post by Christian S. Trenk: The Female Rule, Hospitality, Gift-Giving, and the Passing of Paradise in Tolkien and Homer 0116
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A chapter for each of the names of Turin? Sounds reasonable! 130
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I went on Thursday, and: yes! What a positively disturbing take on the original material(s)! 020
Reposted by Christian S. TrenkNicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The one thing I haven’t seen addressed about the Odyssey movie. It talks about the loss of literacy as something tragic, and a culture which does not have literacy as barbarian. but the power of the poems prob. comes from originally being oral. That’s why Phemias is a rapper… 052
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026How would you rate Númenor‘s depiction in the series? It had *some* elements but surely fell short of its potential? 120
Reposted by Christian S. TrenkDr Grace Khuri @gracekhuri.bsky.social · 21/07/2026What happens when some of a young Tolkien's early Elvish (Gnomish) words aren't really what they seem? Reflections on some of the linguistic seeds of Tolkien's poignant and masterful mythology... #Tolkien #Silmarillion #Philology www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NH...youtube.comLexical Palimpsests: Old English and Old Norse Loan Words in Tolkien's Gnomish Lexicon (1917)YouTube video by Oxford Tolkien Network 0185
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026For the record: I have seen it now, and will not let it stop me from making it all about Tolkien. I‘ll leave judging the quality of the #adaptation to others… 010
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Ha, that‘s my new favourite translation, even if not helpful in this precise context 😅 011
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Haven‘t seen the film yet, but already need to make it about #Tolkien. My thoughts on some connections of #TheOdyssey and Tolkien in the first of two parts now online with @thetolkienist.com 1112
Reposted by Christian S. TrenkTea with Tolkien @teawithtolkien.com · 17/07/2026If I were to imagine Middle-earth as a tapestry, it would be woven with every color. So too should be its adaptations. So too should be its fan communities. You are welcome here. 🫶 015734
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Why is there *always* a Higgins writing great things about great stuff?! 020
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026@haskoliislands.bsky.social scholar Justine Vignolles speaking on " #Trauma and #Intertextuality in Tolkien's #Silmarillion": comparisons of war experiences by #Tolkien and Medieval Icelandic characters, including important swords and rings. 040
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Luke Sewell compares Tolkien's #Turin, Egger's #Nosferatu and the biblical #Samson in terms of dyscatastrophic storytelling - another #Tolkien paper at IMC Leeds this morning. 030
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Aquinas then wishes to know ‚quid sumit canis?‘ 010
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Having @guhrs.bsky.social with me as an expert on soundscapes in literature would have been helpful here... 100
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026" #Belliphonic in Tolkien's Legendarium" was the topic of Ali Mirzabayati's presentation, considering how #Tolkien depicts the soundscape of battle in #Middle-earth. 100
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Rafael Pascual of @universidadgranada.bsky.social considered "A Metrical Exception in Beowulf: Folklore and Comic Effect", building on and expanding the observations by #Tolkien on the matter. 020
Reposted by Christian S. TrenkBrian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Had great fun talking about the Dunlendings in The War of the Rohirrim yesterday at the #Tolkien in modern media round table at @imc-leeds.bsky.social 052
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026@roryq.bsky.social you might have found their presentation interesting as well; may be worth contacting them or the session organizers. Nothing earth-shatteringly new but interesting branches in additional directions... 110
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Frances Ringwood and Michèle duPlessis-Hay speak on „Woodlands in Britain, Medieval Poetry, and Tolkien‘s Middle-earth“, comparing various forests and their usage in #Tolkien and his precursors, incl. Aldarion as an eco-conscious lumberjack - another day at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. 141
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The day in #TolkienAtLeeds ends with @erikjampa.bsky.social speaking on „Elvo-Indo-European and the End of the Third Age", exploring a plethora of linguistic inspirations for #Tolkien conceptualizing his Secondary World. He proposes (among others) why he called Middle-earth „roughly 6000 years old“. 010
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026„Medieval Timekeeping in Middle-earth and Valinor“ is the contribution of #TolkienAtLeeds co-organizer @jrrtastrochick.bsky.social. #Tolkien considered leapyears, necessarily (!) complicating date conversions into our world. What he didn't consider will be on #JournalofTolkienResearch next week. 031
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026@gingerprof.bsky.social continues #TolkienAtLeeds with „Shifting Narrative #Temporalities in Tolkien‘s First Age“, highlighting the various framing techniques and callbacks that create the illusion of multi-layered temporality in the #Silmarillion. #CamiForKeynoteAtBirmingham2027 150
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026‚anemoia‘, yes. Should I find time to return to this for publication, I‘d love to send you an email to have your thoughts on the few medievalist thoughts in my notes. 100
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026#TolkienAtLeeds continues with an examination of #QueerTemporalities in Tolkien‘s Middle-earth: to Pippin, time management in Gondor is queer when a bell structures the day, rather than his individual hunger and six non-fixes #hobbit meals, argues Yvette Kisor. #SecondBreakfast #Tolkien 020
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Amy Amendt-Raduege examines #time itself in the works of #Tolkien in „‚In No Time‘: Writing Time in Timeless Space“ next for #TolkienAtLeeds, retracing different understandings and perceptions of time, and their echoes in Middle-earth. 010
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The inimitable @aranelparmadil.bsky.social of @signumuniversity.bsky.social traced „Humour and Language in Tolkien‘s Lesser-Known Poetry“, including copious amounts of singing, and proving the detailed philological application of #Tolkien in his own poetry. #TolkienAtLeeds 051
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026„Constructing and Absolving Temporality with #Tolkien Poetry-Songs“ is Lyra Keran Zhang‘s contribution to #TolkienAtLeeds: poetry-songs serve multiple functions, one of them is the contextualizing of/through ancient/epic history and myth. 020
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026@uofgfantasy.bsky.social scholar @mercuryreads.bsky.social reflects on #Tolkien and his characters #cruising Faerie, torn between artistic hobby and domestic duties, among others. From "you cannot always be torn in two" to "reunited in the end". #TolkienAtLeeds #LeafByNiggle 171
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I was only the warmup act!! What would you have added on medieval(ist) nostalgia had I left you the time? :-) 100
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026@annasmol.bsky.social examines „Multitemporal Drama in #Tolkien Fiction“, and how the #NotionClubPapers merge multiple worlds and times across Secondary (and Tertiary) Creations. A great start to Day Two of #TolkienAtLeeds. #Temporalities 171
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Spoiler: the answer is a decisive ‚meeh!‘ The nature of #NewZealand often does not match Tolkien‘s idea, the most striking example being #Ithilien which has a high density of plant-names in the original text: the two main movie locations do NOT fit the description at all. 020
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026In „Ecological (In)Fidelity in Middle-earth as Played by Aotearoa“, @roryq.bsky.social investigates how #Tolkien descriptions of nature in his works are an integral part of the narrative rather than plot distractions, and how well #PeterJackson adapted these at #TolkienAtLeeds. 120
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026DEFINITELY! (and figuratively getting dragged through said mud in return by their entmen) 010
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Was #Treebeard a reliable narrator? How conscious was the migration and homebuilding of the entwives – a home of and for women? 110
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Christopher Vaccaro (resplendent in pink!) continues #TolkienAtLeeds with chat #Tolkien knew about women-centric spaces and discourse in „Beguines, Nuns, and Entwives: Lesbian-identified Spaces in Middle-earth“ – entwives as a textual not-quite-Leerstelle, inhabited solely by women. 120
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026@ashiggins.bsky.social explores 'The Inner Consistency of Philological Reality' in Tolkien's invented languages at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. He reminds us that Tolkien was interested in more than just *narrative* consistency. #TolkienAtLeeds 031
Reposted by Christian S. Trenkzorniger alter Mann @zornigeraltermann.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Meine Kumpeline hat ihre Haustür gesegnet. 723845
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Did your uni have a ‚motivational‘ terror owl? 110
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Sure! Would this afternoon/evening be soon enough? 110
Reposted by Christian S. TrenkProf. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026NEW TOLKIEN JUST OUT: delighted to see “JRR #Tolkien’s Soul’s Ward: A critical edition of his unpublished translation of the early Middle English homily Sawles Warde” edited by Andoni Cossio and Nelson Goering: academic.oup.com/res/advance-... Chuffed to have played a minor role in this 1/3 25516
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Let me compare you to him: I‘m sure you‘re a much better author! (All-around nicer human, too, I‘d insist) 020
Christian S. Trenk @cstrnk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Are you also always asked to identify as the one mentioned in a recent Brazilian article on the influence of infrared-light upon the nightlife of clay bricks in the second ice age? 010
