“The Cloud of Unseeing”: Myths Transformed and Pseudo-scientific Interpretations of the Book of Genesis

This paper, delivered at the Tolkien Seminar (Kalamazoo, MI) on May 9, 2018, traces the potential influence of popular late 19th-century Biblical commentaries on the Book of Genesis on Tolkien\u27s post Lord Of the Rings cosmologies, in particular the problem of the creation of the Sun and Moon

A Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of the OED in Search of the Meaning of “Master” Elrond

An editorial commentary on the use of the title “Master” to describe Elrond, with heavy reliance on the Oxford English Dictionary

Magic, Matrimony, and the Moon: Medieval Lunar Symbolism in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun” and “The Fall of Arthur”

This paper (originally delivered at the 2017 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, UK) explores common lunar symbolism in The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun and The Fall of Arthur

The support problem for abelian varieties

Let $A$ be an abelian variety over a number field $K$. If $P$ and $Q$ are $K$-rational points of $A$ such that the order of the reduction of $Q$ divides that of $P$ for all but finitely many primes of the ring of integers of $K$, then there exists a $K$-endomorphism $\phi$ of $A$ and a positive integer $k$ such that $kQ = \phi(P)$.Comment: 7 pages, plain TeX. The statements of the main theorem and main corollary are slightly weakened to coincide with what is actually proved in the paper. There are a few other minor changes. To appear in the Journal of Number Theor