Patreon Crowdcast: Tolkien Scholarship! (Patreon)

On Friday, January 22, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. U.S. Mountain time (check registration link for your local time), we'll host our second Crowdcast of this year, with Tolkien scholar Luke Annear!

We've had a lot of Crowdcasts in the middle of the day for the western hemisphere, which tends to allow European supporters a chance to join too. This one is being moved later, to give supporters in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia an easier chance to join in for a change. I'll continue to move the times on these around when I can, to get better "time zone balance" during the year.

Luke Annear is another Luke that I go a long way back with, as we studied together during my doctoral program in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Outside of Tolkien, Luke also does work on the phonology of Norwegian dialects, and on the Gothic language.

One of this Luke's main focuses is Tolkien's own scholarship and how he engaged with medieval languages and literatures--a topic I know fascinates many of you. My membership level at Crowdcast allows me up to 50 people in a Crowdcast, but since I've never seen more than 41 log in at a time, I'm bumping up the limit on this one to 59 on the presumption some people signed up won't come. Still, if you find out you can't attend after registering, it would be helpful if you unregistered to open up a spot--I anticipate this could be one of the more "crowded" Crowdcasts.

I hope you're all staying healthy and well, and I'm looking forward to bringing you this and many other regular conversations with great guests throughout the year.

All the best for now,

Jackson Crawford