Tolkien Seminar TT 2025

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The seminars will take place on Fridays during term time, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., in Magdalen College, in the Sophia Sheppard Room in weeks 1-7, and the Summer Common Room in week 8.

Please ask the porters for directions. No registration is required.

This seminar is part of a series of events organised by the Oxford Tolkien Network to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the publication of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1954-55.

• Grace O'Duffy (University of Oxford) Middle-Earth Post-#MeToo
• Jolina Bradley (University of Oxford) Tolkien and Arthurian Romance: The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings
• Gabriel Shenk (Signum University) J.R.R. Tolkien at the BBC
• Andoni Cossio (University of the Basque Country [UPV/EHU]; University of Glasgow) Trees, Tales, and Tolkien: A Growing Environmental Consciousness from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings
• Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford) Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (Book launch)
• Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow) Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
• Elliot Vale (University of Oxford) Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
• Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University) The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?​​​​​​​