Mereth Aderthad Interview: Interview with bunn by Shadow

Interview with bunn by Shadow - Featured artist for By Guile Committed: Comparing Tolkien’s Thieves to Beowulf and featured author for The Design of Dragons and the Doom of Dwarves - Silmarillion Writers' Guild - Mereth Aderthad 2025 - July 19, 2025 - Burlington, VT, and online - a celebration of creativity and scholarship inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien

Dragons and Dwarves are among the mysterious creatures in the legendarium, and for both, Tolkien took his own inspiration from Germanic myth, folklore, and literature. For Mereth Aderthad 2025, bunn is creating both a story and a work of art for presentations rooted in the Germanic lore of the legendarium: cloudyhymn's presentation "The Design of Dragons and the Doom of Dwarves" and Savannah Horrell's presentation "By Guile Committed: Comparing Tolkien’s Thieves to Beowulf." Shadow spoke to bunn about their work for these two presentations, the appeal of Dwarves, and the many fruitful connections between Beowulf and Tolkien's own work.

You can read Shadow's interview with bunn here.

Posted on 24 May 2025 (updated 7 June 2025) by SWG Moderators