Is It Ok To Cosplay A Hobbit? Race, Ableism & The Environment In Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings

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With the release of Amazon's headline series Rings of Power (and an unpleasant wave of spoilt nerd babies whining about the show being too "woke" on the basis of like six promo posters) critical interest in Tolkien's work is seeing a resurgence. And you'll almost certainly have seen people happily dressing up and acting out their Hobbitcore fantasies online and in person

Just as horror movies can tell us about the shifting societal mood of fear and unease in a specific time period, what escapist pleasures people gravitate to can also reveal a lot about what's going on below the surface. In this essay, I will-

I would treat this (external, damn you character limits) as more of a ‘further reading’ than a bibliography - I’ve used a lot of ideas and concepts picked up from these texts and resources but this is my hobby, I am not an academic, you’ll have to make do without direct citations;

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