Past Talks

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Monday 10 June 2024

• None - A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
  John Holmes
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 3 June 2024

• None - A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
  Michael G.R. Tolkien
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 27 May 2024

• None - Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
  David Bernabé
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 20 May 2024

• None - "I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
  Will Sherwood
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 13 May 2024

• None - Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
  Dr. Eleanor Parker
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 6 May 2024

• None - ‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
  Edmund Weiner
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 29 April 2024

• None - Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
  Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 22 April 2024

• None - “Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
  Catherine McIlwaine
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 8 March 2024

• None - “In the halls of Mandos”: Death, Deathlessness and Inter-Racial Relations in Beren and Lúthien
  Anine Englund
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 1 March 2024

• None - Tolkien Beyond Tolkien: Unleashing the Sub-Creative Imagination in an Era of Bridge Building
  Eduardo Gutierrez
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 23 February 2024

• None - Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon
  John Garth
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 16 February 2024

• None - Ents and Ecological Entanglements
  Dion Dobrzynski
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 9 February 2024

• None - “Fundamentally religious and Catholic"? Authorial Intent and the Intentional Fallacy
  Holly Ordway
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 2 February 2024

• None - Mr. Underhill: Topography and the Ring's Temptation
  Bond West
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 26 January 2024

• None - Tolkien's 'Sellic Spell' and Beowulfian Poetics: the Artist and the Critic
  Elena Vermeer
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 19 January 2024

• None - 'The Arkenstone and the Ring: wilful objects in Tolkien's The Hobbit’
  Mark Atherton
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• None - ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
  Professor Simon Horobin
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• None - ‘Tolkien and Beowulf’
  Dr Laura Varnam
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• None - ‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
  Grace Khuri
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• None - ‘Tolkien and the Classics’
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• None - ‘Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the Climax of The Lord of the Rings’
  Dr Michael Ward
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• None - ‘How to write The Lord of the Rings’
  Dr Stuart Lee
  Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series