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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 29/09/2026

Making my kid listen to the 90s channel and realizing I like Collective Soul way more than I realized.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 25/09/2026

lol my 9 games is ALL OVER THE PLACE my9games.com/en/s/4ca5e8c...

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 22/09/2026

I cannot say enough good things about the incredible people who I make this show with. Every session is a joy. It’s a delight to get to play with these goofs and live in thr stories that James creates and it’s just icing on the cake to share it all with you.

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AthraPlay RPG Podcast @athraplay.athrabeth.com · 22/09/2026

Happy birthday to Frodo and Bilbo and US! Two years of AthraPlay, and we wouldn't be doing it without you. Thank you for listening, laughing, theorizing, and nerding out with us for two years. Cheers to more adventures to come! #lotr #hobbitday #podcast

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 22/09/2026

Join us for a special minisode with guest Jeremy Edmonds about the @tolkienguide.com’s 20th anniversary livestream on October 3-4! Athrabeth will be joining this epic 20-hour event! Find out all about it here! Thanks @uruloke.tolkienguide.com! athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/edm...

Three photos of smiling people wearing headphones: Stef Midlock, Jude Vais, and Jeremy Edmonds. White text against a black background reads, “Athrabeth minisode with Jeremy Edmonds” and “Tolkien Collector's Guide 20th Anniversary Livestream”.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 16/09/2026

What the fuck does the Pokemon company have against cyndaquil?!

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 16/09/2026

@pennyvixen.bsky.social a question about audiobooks and pronunciation? The narrator of tomb of dragons pronounces several terms last heard in goblin emperor slightly differently. Hard vs soft c in alcethmaret for ex. Did you have input in either? Is one more correct?

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring. Entil’Zha edition! Delenn: pre-transformation no, post maybe Sinclair: absolutely yes John “loafers in the bedroom” “it’s not a war crime if theyre aliens” Sheridan? Hed turn b5 into angmar

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 12/09/2026

I have come out of oxonmoot with something like three new ideas for Tolkien related papers and games.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 11/09/2026

Tattooing day four. Pray for me.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 05/09/2026

This was a surreal experience

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 04/09/2026

I am both physically and, for the first time this year, mentally present and accounted for at Oxonmoot. Come find me and say hello and I’ll give you an @podcast.athrabeth.com button!

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 03/09/2026

I am so jet lagged but still you should all say hi if you see my zombie corpse about

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 03/09/2026

Sometimes @stef.athrabeth.com shows me these pictures in advance and sometimes I see them at 4am because I’m jet lagged and I laugh so hard my lungs hurts

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 01/09/2026

With #Oxonmoot fast approaching, we would like to share our special Athrabeth Oxonmoot 2026 design! We have pins and stickers to give away at Oxonmoot, so come find Jude and Stef to get yours! See you soon @tolkiensociety.org! Design by the amazing Shawn Decker! www.designedbydecker.com

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 01/09/2026

this is not an hp lovecraft situation, this is an orson scott card "your money actively harms people" situation. it doesnt matter if you loved it as a kid. your childhood nostalgia does not matter more than the lives of trans people

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 29/08/2026

Is there anything douchebaggier than a camo wrapped cybertruck?

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Nick Polk (he/him) @tolkienpop.substack.com · 27/08/2026

Wrote an open letter to the editors at Amon Hen about a recently featured article entitled “The Palantír of the 21st Century: Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” by Tom Martin, an investor in the company Palantir. I make my concerns clear tolkienpop.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

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An Open Letter to the Editors at Amon Hen

This is my response Regarding the Decision to Feature Tom Martin’s “The Palantír of the 21st Century: Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)”

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 27/08/2026

a MUCH more eloquent response to the situation than i managed from @tolkienpop.substack.com and one that enthusiastically cosign.

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David the Ñoldo @davidthengoldo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@tolkiensociety.org Didn’t expect having Palantir apologia from…an investor in Palantir…published in Amon Hen 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 27/08/2026

okay first, i have to admit that i unironically ADORE this movie, its 90s supergroup theme song is a fucking JAM. second, Tim Curry is a highlight as a skeeveball cardinal. A+ villaining.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 27/08/2026

Tremendously disappointed to see the AI piece in this months issue of Amon Hen. Putting aside the whole "Tolkien would never" arguments, the piece is simply bad. Its a deeply dishonest take on AI and a poor interpretation of Tolkien's work.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 24/08/2026

i probably shouldn't enjoy verstappen crashing out on lap 2 of his home race (the last time it'll be run, no less) as much as i did, but i just cant stop hating on the dude. he seems like a perfectly fine person, but as a racer he's such a schmuck

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 24/08/2026

i will never stop shouting about how much i love these books. i adore each of them, and will drop EVERYTHING to tell you why you will to at the slightest provocation

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 23/08/2026

priorities is when your kid figures out santa before he's six but he still thinks the guys in daft punk are robots

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 17/08/2026

i have reached the "cleaning my fountain pen nibs" stage of #oxonmoot anticipation

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 17/08/2026

i thought this one was self evident

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 16/08/2026

Can you believe Stef won’t make me one that says “Clare is Wrong” or even “Clare is Wrong about Finrod” ?!?!??

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Del Griffith: Okay, I See - Planes, Trains & Automobiles

ALT: Del Griffith: Okay, I See - Planes, Trains & Automobiles

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 16/08/2026

For that money why limit to 56 episodes. You could make like 20 or 30 seasons of ds9 quality trek for that money, 26 episodes a season.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 15/08/2026

Hey @discord.com Fonts are not going to make me forget all the shitty deceptive bullcrap privacy stuff Sincerely, a former nitro buyer. Emphasis on former.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 14/08/2026

you can draw a directly line from oneshot to @podcast.athrabeth.com. I remember sitting at a oneshot panel at gencon a couple years after it took off, inspired by your success and seeing people being creative and exploring what they were excited about. it was the push i needed to start Athrabeth.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 13/08/2026

Ending Krakoa was the biggest mistake that Marvel has made in years. The x-men have been on carousel telling the same 4 stories over and over until Hickman took over, and ending it to return to the status quo was the stupidest fucking thing i've ever seen.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 13/08/2026

Witchbrook is either going to be the biggest hit or the biggest disappointment of the indie game scene since NMS. every preview looks incredible, and its hard to imagine the expectations being higher at this point.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 13/08/2026

a TERRIFYING percentage of the people who make the software you use are idiots. trust accordingly.

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Justen Jess @justen.babylonpod.page · 13/08/2026

PERN JOKES ON MY TL?! IN 2026?! bless you

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 12/08/2026

hell yeah. RRD make some of the best games around (spire legitimately blew my mind the first time i read it) and its always really inspiring when the people who make the things you love turn out to be, like, decent?

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 31/07/2026

i look at these words every time this comes across my dash, and every time it makes me laugh. this time i picked: - autism spectrum disorder - autocorrect - dongle - LAN - technobabble

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 31/07/2026

"fun" fact: my dad tried to name me Stonewall Jackson <Surname> but mom wouldn't let him have the birth certificate. (much) Later in life, he married a mongolian woman and was fond of telling people that if he accidentally knocked her up hed name the kid Chinggis Stonewall Jackson classy

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 28/07/2026

SO MANY of my friends play FF14 but i can't seem to get into it. i feel like this is a personal failing on my part.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 27/07/2026

Hands down my favorite works of fantasy in the last few decades. if you haven't read them, pick up Goblin Emperor today

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 27/07/2026

this guy is either profoundly fucking stupid or trolling specifically to try and prop up his company because he knows its a house of cards made out of flash paper and the torches are getting closer

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 25/07/2026

I survived. But barely. My brain feels like scrambled eggs

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 25/07/2026

Herding 10 year olds at my sons birthday party. The adults are outnumbered. Pray for us.

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 23/07/2026

wait but i thought the showrunners weren't real fans who never read anything and didnt know anything RoP may not be to everyones taste and i have plenty of criticisms over some of their choices but i can't fault their love of the material

showrunner describes how they've derived the name of these pre-nazgul "Nazgnagol"

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