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Volume 24, Issue 1 Asexuality in Tolkien's Legendarium

Happy Pride everyone! The Journal of Tolkien Research has just published a new issue focused on the asexual and aromantic spectrums and how they resonate within Tolkien's Legendarium. The mods over here are so excited to read these and will be posting a weekly article summary for the next few months!

Introduction: Asexuality and Aromanticism in Tolkien's Works

Clare Moore and Rory Queripel

“Mythology is Language and Language is Mythology”: Allegory, Applicability, and/or Asexuality in Tolkien’s Legendarium

Rory M. Queripel

“Motions of Love and Friendship”: Elven (A)sexuality

Clare Moore

Chaste Bachelors and Abstaining Husbands: Celibacy and Asexuality in the Line of Finwë

Kristine Larsen

“A Natural Human Activity”: the Split Attraction Model as a tool for reading Tolkien’s Legendarium

Sarah Courtis

“As Bachelors Very Exceptional”: An Asexual Reading of Frodo Baggins

Danna Petersen-Deeprose

What is Unwritten May Yet Resonate: In Search of Female A-spec Resonances in Tolkien

Jackie Sheppard

An Asexual Autist’s Feminist Musings on The Lord of the Rings

Robin A. Reid

[generaljenobi-deactivated202411]

[artanaros]

one year since the círdan reveal made my regular círdan obsession skyrocket

[aroacebaggins-art]

For @physicsandfandoms who requested aroace TROP Gil-Galad, plus a version with the flag colors in the crown because excellent suggestion.

I'm taking Tolkien pride art/pfp reqs this month! Just send me the character, flag, and if you want a design from a specific adaptation!

Pfp versions below the cut

[marisatomay]

Happy Pride

[my-dailydreams]

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

[normal-horoscopes]

I love videos of people performing religious ceremonies for small animals. Especially if it’s not something a small animal could participate in theologically.

[normal-horoscopes]

Sadie the Dog has been BLESSED upon this fine ASH WEDNESDAY she has been reminded of the FRAGILITY OF LIFE and has observed the start of the LENT SEASON

[normal-horoscopes]

Butters the Cat is wearing a TINY KIPPAH

[boydsjosten]

Cat on tiny praying mat !!!

[normal-horoscopes]

Cat on a tiny praying mat!!!

[petermorwood]

@muslimgamer​ and others might confirm this for me: AFAIK cats are Clean Creatures in Islam, so cats on prayer mats - especially their own mini prayer mats - aren’t offensive. One website I looked at said “cats will be cats, cats like to mirror people, and giving them their own mat helps stop them being a distraction during prayers.”

[hijab-described]

[ID: Photos of cats on prayer mats, some have their own miniature mats, others sit alongside their humans. /end ID]

[nealashitposts]

brothers and sisters of the book i am incredibly distracted look at the BABIES

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[lizardsfromspace]

Imagine washing up on Dinotopia and getting a talk saying "unfortunately, you can't escape this island! You'll never go home or see your loved ones ever again" & then while you're crying they say "I'm sorry, you'll just have to live on the island of dinosaur communism for the rest of your life" and you look up through your bleary eyes and go. Wait what

[obscuredurins]

Disability Pride starts in July!!

We already have amazing submissions lined up and we would love to have you with us to support and highlight our wonderful and diverse community here on tolkien tumblr dot com.

This is a spoonie friendly event! That means Past works!! WIPS!! Doodles!! Gif edits!! And more are all accepted during our flexible momth long event! We also have an AO3 where you can submit year round.

Check pinned post for rules and further information!

[connieboldheart]

I love making these - let me know in comments/reblogs where you'd sit! :)

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[adibkhorram]

So I saw this news last week and finally switched over to duckduckdo and the difference is STAGGERING. It's like...search from 20 years ago. The results I want are at the TOP. I can't believe I waited so long to switch.

[tjalexandernyc]

agreed, switching to duckduckgo last year was the single best improvement in my life. just remember to change the search settings > manage ai and turn all the different toggles to Off (duck.ai), Never (search assist), and On (Hide ai images)

[thisisevenharderthannamingablog]

Just bringing this down from above quotes:

“It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

So when the news sites go out of business, the content creators give up, the only places you can buy things from are the ones big enough to pay Google's going rate for being included in results, and the entire internet has been turned into an AI-generated ouroboros of shit... then what?

[obscuredurins]

Its tiiiiime♡

Starting July 1st ObscureDurins will be hosting

TOLKIEN DISABILITY PRIDE

This event focuses on ALL creative works focusing on disability in Tolkien's universe.

You can do worldbuilding, fan fic, fan art, share a favorite character, your favorite headcanons, write a song, poem, show us your LOTRO Oc!ANYTHING providing-

Absolutely NO USE OF AI IN ANY PART OF THE PROCESS

Ableism and violence against Disabled character should be done with nuance and plot in mind. Remember this is a pride event we are more than willing to have dead dove- provided it is done justly and tactfully.

Tag all your works appropriately and place under a read more.

Tag: "tolkien disability pride" AND "obscuredurins" to get your work featured.

We have an AO3 collection!

This is a spoonie friendly event!We accept past works, WIPS, and encourage this as our time to display PRIDE in our community.

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

This view of a crescent Mars was captured on May 15, by NASA’s Psyche mission as it approached the planet for a gravity assist.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Rocky: we built our spaceship by unifying every mind on the planet to create a super hive mind, pooling out collective knowledge and problem solving skills to come up with a plan.

Grace: we gave the scariest woman I've ever met two coffees every morning, an unlimited budget, and enough legal immunity to cuss out any world leaders she wanted to and boy did she want to.

[shamebats]

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