Tom Emanuel is a theologian and PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow. His thesis project “The Tale We’ve Fallen Into: J.R.R. Tolkien’s
The Lord of the Rings and the Post-Christian Quest for Meaning” explores Tolkien’s reception among nonreligious readers in the changing spiritual landscape of the twenty-first century. His work has appeared in
Mallorn,
Mythlore, Tolkien Studies, and
The Journal of Tolkien Research. Tom currently lives in Glasgow with his spouse and their two Elven-fair children, whom he is already inducting into the “deplorable cultus” of Tolkien fandom. You can reach him by email at
thomas.emanuel@glasgow.ac.uk or find him on Twitter and Bluesky as
@RealTomEmanuel.
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