Nick Polk (he/him)

@tolkienpop.substack.com

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Educator | Production Editor for Mallorn @tolkiensociety.org | Creator of Tolkien Pop! | Coffee Addict | Wannabe Punk Theologian https://tolkienpop.carrd.co

An edited picture of Haaland from Norway running onto the soccer pitch with a double sided axe with the caption “Gimli, rushing into the battle at Helm’s Deep”
Screen shot of Lt. Steven Hauk from the movie Good Morning Vietnam saying “Sir, in my heart, I know I’m funny”
Gollum from The Lord of the Rings wearing a Costco hat and heating a hot dog in a Costco food court with the text “Gollum got that dog in him” above the him
A photo shopped photo of a Caucasian man and woman in front of Baja Burrito in Nashville, Tn
A thumbnail with a selfie from Tolkien scholar Mercury Natis with the label “Tolkien, Queer Theory, and Punk Rock” for the Tolkien Pop podcast
Three vinyl albums: MxPx’s Panic, Van Halen’s 1984, and Bon Jovi’s best of Cross Road and one cassette tape: Hilary Duff’s Luck…or Something
A kid with glasses and wearing a backpack, winding up a punch with the caption “POV you just told me there’s only one way to interpret The Lord of the Rings”
A medieval French knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail saying, “Your mother was a song bird, and your father smelt of cosmo-ferry!”
Ms. Rachel and Mayor Zohran Mamdani singing “wah wah wah” while doing crying hand motions
A stack of three books. Title list from top to bottom: “Discourses in Mormon Theology,” “The Mormon Doctrine of Deity,” and “The Silence of the Lamb: Exploring the Hiddenness of Christ and God”