Melissa Smith has had her paper “At Home and Abroad: Éowyn’s Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings” accepted for publication in Mythlore. This paper was written for my course “Tolkien: The Myth and Epic of Middle-Earth” at the University of Rochester in the Spring of …
It didn’t really need confirmation, but now I know I’m out of shape. A few hours of playing Wii Sports — especially the boxing — and my muscles are actually a tad tired. I am truly out of shape. On the plus side, I can report that the Wii is …
I’m not a gamer. Not really. Sure, I’ve played my share of PC games — Civilization IV, Neverwinter Nights, and Half-life 2 have all found an oft-used home on my drive these past couple years, and there was a whole semester of my college life where I basically didn’t sleep …
A Medieval Astronomer? I’m a medievalist. Not one of those dress-up-and-play-swords folks, but an academic who specializes in the Middle Ages. I study medieval castles; I don’t want to live in one.* So it surprises some folks to hear that in the summer of 2007 I became one of the …
Does this work? And how does this look? Good? bad? Who the hell am I talking to? It looks like this will be my new website. I’ll be slowly moving things over from the old one for a few weeks. Hope to see some folks hanging around here!