You look very nice. I'm going to send you an email asking for the final version. I may need to cite you sometime. Probably not this month--nothing about dragons in it.
Thank you! I hope the conference proceedings are out soon, which should make citation easier. I haven't forgotten the Flieger book, by the way--just ran out of time and decided to wait till the new year! (I'm sitting in the airport now so it will have to wait till the new year.)
I listened to it all. You are awesome! Very well written essay. I appreciated your comparison of Tolkien's creation story with others, the idea that he melded Christianity and Norse mythology has often struck me when reading it and when attempting to work with his mythos. I've read that he was trying to create a mythos for the English, which he felt was sadly lacking compared to other cultures. I'm amazed the extent to which he succeeded in that goal, certainly if he were alive now, his success would be beyond his wildest dreams. I appreciated your discussion of On Fairy Stories and the role of artist as sub-creator as well as your mention of fanfiction and other derivative and transformative endeavors, enabling us to participate in the music of the Creation.
Bravo, dude!
Btw, thanks to whoever raised the camera so we could see you.
Thank you! Creation stories fascinate me, so this piece grew out of a research paper I wrote for one of my classes that involved attaining David Leeming's 600-page encyclopedia of creation stories, which is a very distracting book to have on my virtual bookshelf. ;) I loved researching it and was pretty surprised to see how little had been done with this idea, aside from many people commenting about biblical parallels that they never really bothered to prove.
Bobby fixed the camera. The setup was odd in that the wire connecting my laptop to the projector was very short. I needed to see the laptop but could move it quite out of the way so that I was in view with the camera on the tabletop. So my good husband held the camera up for the whole presentation. :)
Yay! Congratulations on an excellent essay. Were there questions and debate afterwards? Did you get to know a lot of great people?
As elfscribe said, thank goodness Bobby finally realised we weren't interested in the laptop lid but in his wife! :o) I'd love the final version of the article, when it's ready to share.
I had the pleasure of listening to this in person :) She did a fantastic job, of course! Presenting a paper in 15 min. is a challenge. Some people just prepare an 8-page summary of their topic that they sit there and read with no visuals, but Dawn had an AWESOME powerpoint to assist in illustrating what she was talking about. Such a great balance of references to Tolkien's work and great, thoughtful commentary from other sources. I feel that academic attention on Tolkien's work is most useful when it brings in outside knowledge that helps to illuminate the text, and Dawn's paper did just that by focusing on the types of creation myths out there and how the uniqueness of what Tolkien did in his calls attention to what message he wanted to impart (essentially, sub-creationists/artists rock
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Nice work, Dawn. Congrats again.
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Bravo, dude!
Btw, thanks to whoever raised the camera so we could see you.
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Bobby fixed the camera. The setup was odd in that the wire connecting my laptop to the projector was very short. I needed to see the laptop but could move it quite out of the way so that I was in view with the camera on the tabletop. So my good husband held the camera up for the whole presentation. :)
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As elfscribe said, thank goodness Bobby finally realised we weren't interested in the laptop lid but in his wife! :o) I'd love the final version of the article, when it's ready to share.
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