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Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference program and links for registration. Free, online, Nov 23-24, 2024.
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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.
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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.
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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
My recent talk: “Dreaming the Middle Ages: The Case of Grendel’s Mother.” Keynote for the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, Oct. 4, 2024.
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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.
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20th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference
Final program for the 20th Annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont Conference. April 13, 2024.
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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
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.
A Single Leaf
“He used to spend a long time on a single leaf, trying to catch its shape, and its sheen, and the glistening of dewdrops on its edges.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, “Leaf by Niggle”
Anna Smol: A Single Leaf 