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Category: Tolkien

  • cfp: Tolkien and War

    cfp: Tolkien and War

    CFP: Tolkien and War. 21st Annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont hybrid conference. April 5, 2025; proposals due Feb. 2.

  • Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’

    Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’

    Links to two articles available for free download on J.R.R. Tolkien’s play, “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth” and a video recording of a conference presentation on Tolkien as a playwright. These essays discuss manuscript revisions, ideas about drama, and allusions to medieval poetry.

  • 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…

  • It’s here! The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien: First Impressions

    First impressions of the three-volume Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien.

  • 20th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference

    Final program for the 20th Annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont Conference. April 13, 2024.

  • 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…

  • Drawing your way into a fantasy landscape

    Drawing your way into a fantasy landscape – John Howe’s process compared to J.R.R. Tolkien’s drawings of Shelob’s Lair and the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

  • Inclusive Perspectives on Tolkien & Religion

    In an article published in 2014 in the journal Tolkien Studies, aptly titled “But What Did He Really Mean?” Verlyn Flieger points out the contradictory statements that Tolkien made about various issues, the most controversial being about whether or not The Lord of the Rings was an expressly Catholic work. Flieger states: Thus he could…

  • New Tolkien books coming soon

    I’m sure I’m not the only one who has a pile of Tolkien books in my to-read pile, but that’s not stopping me from looking forward to some new publications. Here are a few of them… The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.  Revised and Expanded Edition.  HarperCollins, 2023. The letters have been a staple of Tolkien…

  • Tolkien Tuesday: a positive community-building event

    Twitter (aka X) can be a hellscape of hatred, but fortunately there are people online who are determined to fight back and focus on positive community-building actions. At the forefront of this effort is Tim Bolton, who has created the #TolkienTuesday / #TolkienTrewsday event. A theme is announced before every Tuesday and anyone is invited…