You can now sign up for a free online seminar featuring analyses of bodies and environments across Tolkien’s works. Sponsored by the Tolkien Society along with the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and Medical Humanities Research Centre, this event will take place on October 18 via Zoom. More details about the seminar, the schedule, and how to register are available here. To pique your interest, below is the list of speakers and their topics.

• Doina Ciochina
  The Wounds of Arda: Disability, Trauma, and the Anthropocene in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
  
• Louise Mathieson
  Terror-forming: cyclical trauma in The Rings of Power’s Adar
  
• Rory Queripel
  Death Downs, Dead Marshes, and Green Hills: Embodied Morality and Ecological Corruption in Arda
  
• Berkay Ündeger
  Embodied Encounters: Legolas, Gimli, and the Interconnectedness of Middle-earth
  
• Han Xiao
  The Nazgûl’s Scent: Olfaction, Liminality, and the Sensory Landscapes of Middle-earth
  
• Victoria Mummelthei
  Dwarven Stone-Singing as Affective Geology in The Rings of Power
  
• James Moffett
  Entwined Fates: The Body and the Environment in Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur and The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
  
• Erin Warford
  Contact and Conflict in the Rohan-Dunland Borderland
  
• Alina Himango Fairbanks
  “They Found the Way Barred:” Anishinaabe Perspective on the Impacts of the Scouring of the Shire
  
• Amira Abdullah
  The Hobbit: A Journey through the Realms of Environmental Posthumanism
  
• Erik Jampa Andersson
  The Lost Spirits of Arda: Eco-daemonology and New Animism in Tolkien’s Legendarium
  
• Hannah Mendro
  “Alas for the gulls!”: the Sundering Sea as (dis)abling force in The Lord of the Rings
  
• Hannah McDonald, Clare Moore & Journee Cotton
  Closing Comments