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
















