Tolkien seminars

Week 1 (24 January) Dimitra Fimi (University of Glasgow) ‘Tolkien the Mythographer’
Week 2 (31 January) Kit Richards (University of Birmingham) ‘The Dwarves are a race apart’: Tolkien’s contribution to the specialisation of dwarves in popular fantasy’
Week 3 (7 February) Rebekah Lamb (University of St Andrews) ‘Tolkien’s Forms of Detachment’
Week 4 HALF TERM – NO SEMINAR
Week 5 (21 February) Rafael Pascual (University of Granada) ‘Tolkien and old English prosody’
Week 6 (28 February) Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David) ‘Themes in The Lord of the Rings: A Defence and an Exploration’
Week 7 (7 March) Carl Phelpstead (University of Cardiff) ‘‘Alight Here for Middle-earth!’: Tolkien, Place, and the Past’
Week 8 (14 March) Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg) ‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien’s Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’
For more details: tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-seminar-ht-2025

The seminars will take place on Fridays during term time, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., in the Rainolds Room at Corpus Christi College in Merton Street. Please ask the porters for directions. No registration is required.

We look forward to welcoming you to the first seminar next Friday (24 January), featuring Dimitra Fimi, Professor of Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow and one of the most prominent Tolkien scholars of this generation.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Timing: 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Talks:

Friday 21 February 2025

‘Tolkien and old English prosody’
Date: 21 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rafael Pascual (University of Granada)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

‘Themes in The Lord of the Rings: A Defence and an Exploration'
Date: 28 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 March 2025

‘'Alight Here for Middle-earth!': Tolkien, Place, and the Past’
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Carl Phelpstead ((University of Cardiff)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 March 2025

‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien's Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’
Date: 14 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Katy Terry, Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu