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Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• None - A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
  Professor Mark Williams
  Part of: Tolkien seminars

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• None - JRR Tolkien and GB Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
  Professor Stuart Lee
  Part of: Tolkien seminars

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• None - Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture
  Holly Ordway
  Part of: Tolkien seminars

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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