Mereth Aderthad 2025: Program

[daughterofshadows]

Program

We are pleased to share the program for presentations of meta and scholarship! Fanworks that will be shared as part of these sessions will be added soon as well. All times are in Eastern U.S. time (UTC -4 at the time of event).

9:00-9:15 Welcome!

9:15-9:45
"Cherished antagonist, despised protagonist - a defence of Elu Thingol" by Stella Getreuer-Kostrouch

9:45-10:15
"The Aromantic in Tolkien" by Shadow

10:15-10:45
"The Design of Dragons and Doom of the Dwarves" by cloudyhymns

10:45-11:15
"Gil-galad was an Elven King: Kingship and Personhood in the last High King of the Noldor" by Maglor

11:15-11:45
"Exile, Ruin and Resistance: Beleriand as Postcolonial Palimpsest" by Dr. Zara Ashkenazi-Khan

11:45-12:15
"By Guile Committed: Comparing Tolkien’s Thieves to Beowulf" by Savannah Horrell

1:00-1:30
"Mythmakers vs. the made myths: Exploring a reader’s levels of religious alienation and connection in works about and by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis" by Acha Rezak (Quente)

1:30-2:00
"Love, Grief, and Alliterative Verse in Tolkien’s Legendarium" by Paul D. Deane

2:00-2:30
"Tolkien, Lunatic Physicists, and Abnegation" by Cynthia (Cindy) Gates a.k.a. pandemonium_213

2:30-3:00
"Twilight, Child Of: Comparisons Between Tinúviel, Lómion, and Undómiel" by JazTheBard

3:00-3:30
"How To Make a Star From a Tree: The Science of Telperion and Laurelin" by Zhie

3:30-4:00
"'Kidnap Fam' and the Living Legendarium" by polutropos