A Pretty Big SSP! My First Peer-Reviewed Publication!

[dawn_felagund]

For over a year now, I have been working on writing and revising an article for the Journal of Tolkien Research. While I've published a few Tolkien studies articles, this was my first for a peer-reviewed journal. Well, after much work over the last year, the themed issue Authorizing Tolkien: Control, Adaptation, and Dissemination of J.R.R. Tolkien'

Comments

[shirebound]

Congratulations! What an achievement.

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! I'm really happy about it. ^_^

[dreamflower02]

Awesome! Awesome! And more awesome! Congratulations, dear!

ETA: I got the chance to read it, and may I repeat: awesome!

[dawn_felagund]

Thanks so much, both for the congrats and for actually reading the durned thing! :) :) :)

[dreamflower02]

"The durned thing" was really cool! I loved the way you interspersed the fic with Celebrimbor and Pengolodh in with the rest of the article, as it really shed light on the historical bias issue very well.

Also, survey info was awesome too--but maybe that's because I took part in it, I just find it fascinating.

[dawn_felagund]

I kept waiting to be told that I couldn't include my ficlet. I suspected it'd get kicked out right away. It wasn't. I expected a reviewer would comment negatively on it. No one did.

I think it confused a couple of people, but no one told me to take it out. It seemed fitting: I first wrote about these issues in fiction.

I got the idea from an article I'd read during grad school that opened each section with a bit of creative writing tied to folklore. That emboldened me to try to get away with it here! :D

The survey has been too much fun for me. I can--and have!--spent hours at a time playing with numbers. It's certainly not a complete picture of the Tolkien fanfic community, but it's fun to see how my long-held impressions of various genres or archives bear out (or don't!) in the actual results.

[drummerwench]

That's fabulous! Just like they ^ all ^ said, Congratulations!

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! ^_^

[hhimring]

Congratulations, Dawn!
(I've read it now.)