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Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference
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cfp: Tolkien and War

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Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’

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cfp: New essays on women and gender in Tolkien
This call for papers comes from Cami Agan and Clare Moore who will be editing a collection to honour the work of Leslie Donovan and Janet Brennan Croft who, almost ten years ago, published Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien. We invite submissions for an anthology focused on women…
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My recent talk: Dreaming the Middle Ages: The Case of Grendel’s Mother

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It’s here! The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien: First Impressions
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20th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference
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Online Midwinter Seminar – Something Mighty Queer
The Mythopoeic Society is sponsoring another online seminar, this one “centered around queerness in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, or other mythopoeic work.” See https://mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2024.htm for more information and the registration forms. Below you’ll find the two-day program on February 17 – 18, with plenty of Tolkien presentations on offer. The keynote will be delivered by…
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Reblog: alliterative poets today
My recent work on Tolkien’s “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth” has had me and my co-author Gavin Foster looking closely at Tolkien’s use of alliterative metre. Over on our research site at Tolkienalliterative.ca, which is dedicated primarily to Tolkien’s alliterative verse (though not limited to Tolkien alone) we’ve posted details about two new sources that publish and…
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Drawing your way into a fantasy landscape