Today, Valentine’s Day, you might expect me to be talking about romance in literature. The truth is that you are never going to find me in the Romance section at a bookstore. I prefer stories where romance is a secondary element and not the main focus of the plot, as well as, stories where other…
Category: Gender
The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob
At Oxonmoot 2020, I gave a talk entitled “The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob”. It aimed at analysing two of the most less considered female characters in Tolkien’s works and their possible reading from a feminist perspective. This was the abstract of my talk: “When…
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Fallen Women
This time we are going to imagine ourselves in the Victorian Era. Let’s walk through the dirty streets in the big cities like Manchester or London. We can think of Charles Dickens’s novels as Hard Times. Now, let’s imagine a society of double moral standards. Morality was supposed to be strict, but in reality, people…
J.R.R. Tolkien and the Women of his Imagination
Today, March 8th, we celebrate an important day: happy international women’s day! But at the same time, Middle Earth celebrations have not stopped. I decided to write a post commemorating those two special events. I am going to show you what eight female characters from J. R.R. Tolkien’s works taught me. It has always seemed…
Positive Masculinity in “The Mandalorian”: Din Djarin’s Five Best Qualities in Season Two
I am so happy to announce that this is the last post of the year, time flies fast, and we soon find ourselves talking about The Mandalorian again. Yes! Let’s discuss that amazingly produced Star Wars live-action series. We can clearly see how much the whole team involved in the series love what they are doing, I will leave…
Books From Fangorn .ᛒ.ᚠ. 