RESPECT THE LORE: Tolkien and Queer Digital Fandom

Hey, so what was JRR Tolkien's intent in writing Lord of the Rings? Are queer people allowed to enjoy his work? What's the Tolkien fandom up to on Twitter? Are people still using air quotes these days? Your local pedant is here to help. Chapter timecodes: 00:00 Introduction 05:14 The Call to Embark on a Little Literature Review 06:00 Wolfgang Iser's Reader-Response Theory 07:45 Stuart Hall's Reception Theory 10:54 Modes of Decoding 15:00 The Political Discourse of the Tolkien fandom on Twitter 20:57 The Lore-d of the Rings 22:31 Prologue to the Second Edition 24:42 Excerpts from Tolkien's letters, 1951 - 1971 41:40 Okay...so what? 49:12 Conclusion 50:46 Acknowledgements and works cited Links to cited texts: Hall, Stuart. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse. Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, 1973. https://spstudentenhancement.files.wo... Iser, Wolfgang. “The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach.” New Literary History, vol. 3, no. 2, 1972, pp. 279–299. https://ctlsites.uga.edu/eberle/wp-co... Tolkien, J.R.R., et al. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. George Allen & Unwin, 1981. https://bibliothecaveneficae.com/wp-c... Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. HarperCollins, 1993. https://gosafir.com/mag/wp-content/up... #lotr #tolkien