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Jude
@jude.athrabeth.com
i do some podcasts:
- Athrabeth, @podcast.athrabeth.com
- Babylon Podject, @babylonpod.page
- Compleat Bibliography, @compleat.bibliography.show‬

Tolkien Academic, Space Lizard Appreciator, Necromancy Enthusiast, Krakoan Ideologue

he/him
AM I EXCITED?!

U BETCHA!
We are thrilled to announce the dates and location of #Westmoot26! It will take place May 22-24, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bookings open soon, watch our website!https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/westmoot-2026/
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
i dunno about you guys but that sounds like its ASKING to be burned down
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
oh wouldnt i
it's advent you know what that means
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
we've now reached the "glasses are no longer optional even close up" age
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Celebrimbor and the Rings of Power

The masterwork he coveted, the maker he desired—held at last where neither can slip from him again. The stone Celebrimbor never warms beneath his hand; his skin has grown too cold.

#celebrimbor #sauron #silvergifting #silmarillion #lotr
November 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
honestly it sometimes feels like i dreamed that something so good existed
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
this is a very Ohio skeet, but i am not sure who it speaks worse of, me or discount drug mart, that whenever i got in there i'm the only person under 60 not working there
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
are you telling me i get to eat my favorite cranberry substance of indeterminate composition AND feel ethically superior about it?!
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
honestly one of the better pictures of me, attempting to emulate the majestic stoicism of the vulture
Happy birthday to the podcast host with the most, @jude.athrabeth.com! Or should I say, happy bird-day! 🦅
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
okay, be with me on this one

Cheney was the fascist Bowie. with his (well deserved if overdue) death, the dam breaks. he's been dead what, 36 hours during which Mamdani was elected, dems crushed all over, pelosi is retiring, and we're getting a third mummy movie with the original stars
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
damn you aws, now my rangoons are cold
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
i have never been so IMMEDIATELY HORNY for a movie before as i am for this one
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
i haven't had a chance to play Maleghast yet but this art SURE FUCKIN' MAKES ME WANNA
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Is there a way to tell a 9 year old that they don’t need to share literally every thought that crosses their mind every waking second of the day that doesn’t make it sound like I’m trying to say shut up with nicer words?
October 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
HEY! YOU! are you an athrabeth listener who does fanfiction? GET IN HERE! The excellent and oft mentioned Dawn Walls-Thumma and Maria K. Alberto are doing a THIRD EDITION of their Tolkien Fanfiction Survey.

This is super important work, and incredibly valuable. Please do the survey if you can.
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined.

“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”
July 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
in ohio safeway is a very sketch corner store often referred to as "not so safeway", which has amused me very much since i moved here
One of my favourite things about the US is that I have never heard of most of these.
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jenkins with 40 plugins
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Trying to find a job while also not wanting to work on the latest AI shovelware drek is proving to be… challenging
October 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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In which @tolkienpop.substack.com kindly let me ramble about how feminism and disability theory impact my work on Tolkien (and my outlook on life!)
Anotha one: New Tolkien Pop! podcast with @clarelmoore.bsky.social who is a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow, researching disability in Tolkien’s legendarium. She gives insight into feminist and disability thought in Tolkien’s works: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
i have NO TIME for more games. but i am still begging people at every possible opportunity to run an x-men game for me
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This month we discuss Oxonmoot and our session “Tolkien’s Try-hard Troublemakers” with Dr. Kristine Larsen and @aranelparmadil.bsky.social. Thank you Kris and Sara for joining us!

athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

For the slides, check out the episode on YouTube: youtu.be/i--2o37rayM
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM