To commemorate 100 years since the birth of Christopher Tolkien, the Tolkien Society is holding this free online conference, November 23-24, to honour Christopher’s life and legacy as his father’s major editor. The speakers’ topics have just been announced, and looking at the line-up I would say that this event will be well worth the time for anyone interested in Tolkien Studies. All you have to do is to register! You can find more information and the link for registration here.

Saturday 23 November

Richard Ovenden	Working with Christopher
Chris Smith	A personal remembrance of Christopher
Alan Lee	A Conversation: Working with Christopher and the Estate
Vincent Ferré	A polyphonic tribute to Christopher Tolkien – from France
Thomas Honegger	Fathers and Sons, or: Looking for CJRT in JRRT’s Fiction
Brian Sibley	‘Pursuing it with eager feet’: My Indebtedness to Christopher
Peter Grybauskas	“Earth Under the Feet of Romance”: Hobbits and The Homecoming
Denis Bridoux	“It is dear to my heart”: An art-oriented recollection of a correspondence with Christopher Tolkien (1982-1988)
Christopher Gilson	Christopher Tolkien’s involvement in the publication o f his father’s linguistic writings in Parma Eldalamberon
Carl F. Hostetter	Scans Across the Water: Editing Tolkien’s Manuscripts from 4,000 Miles Away
Douglas A. Anderson	Christopher Tolkien as Medieval Scholar
Ted Nasmith	Working With Christopher on Illustrating The Silmarillion
Dimitra Fimi, Peter Grybauskas, Andrew Higgins & John D. Rateliff	Panel Discussion: Editing Tolkien (hosted by Shaun Gunner)
William Fliss	A Fruitful Collaboration: Christopher Tolkien and Marquette University, 1974-2000
John D. Rateliff	Editing The Hobbit

Sunday 24 November

John Howe	TBC
Nick Groom	Forewords and Prefaces – or Apologies? Christopher Tolkien’s Prologues to The History of Middle-earth
Sonali Chunodkar	Lost Tales and Found Myths: Christopher Tolkien on the ‘Mythology for England’
Jessica Yates	Christopher Tolkien’s Lectures at Oxford
Sara Brown	“We are as we are, and ye are as we find you” (Or Finrod Elfsplains the Gift of Ilúvatar): The ‘Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth’ as Core Text in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Kristine Larsen	It’s so meta: CJRT on JRRT on JRRT in CJRT within the ‘Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth’
Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond	Working with Christopher: Art, Prose, and Poetry
Nicholas Birns	Christopher Tolkien and ‘the Goths and the Huns’
Yvette Kisor	Christopher Tolkien as Reader of His Father’s Work in “The Lay of Leithian”
John Garth	TBC
Robin Anne Reid	Tolkien’s ‘Absent [Female] Characters’: How Christopher Tolkien Expanded Middle-earth
Michael D. C. Drout	‘He builded better than he knew’: Christopher Tolkien’s The History of The Lord of the Rings
James Tauber	Continuing Christopher Tolkien’s Work in a Digital Age
Verlyn Flieger	“Where Credit is Due”

Check out the Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference page here for more information about the speakers, the proposed schedule of talks, and most importantly, the registration link.