Anthony and Jessica send the following welcome news along:
NORTH EAST TOLKIEN SOCIETY 2011 CALENDAR
10th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
Now Available!!
Commemorating 10 years of The Northeast Tolkien Society we are very happy to present our 2011 Calendar.
In its 4th year, our Calendar has been blessed to have a special cover by the brilliant artist Jef Murray. The [...]

Nancy Martsch sends this good news along:

Beyond Bree is pleased to announce its 30th Anniversary with a special 2011 Calendar featuring art focused on the Istari, the wizards of Tolkien's Middle-earth.
The Calendar will feature classic art from Beyond Bree's past as well as new works by a host of artists from around the globe, including:

Sylvia [...]

Issue 3 of Silver Leaves is now available for ordering. The theme for this issue is “Tolkien / Fantasy Art and Artists” and the editors are very grateful for the generosity of artists like Tim Kirk, Ted Nasmith, Colleen Doran, Jef Murray, Hyatt Moore, Anke Eissmann, David Wyatt, Virginia Lee, John Dickenson and many others. [...]

Oxonmoot 2010
or, "Let's meet in Oxford in September"
24th- 26th September, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
A weekend of Talking Tolkien, friendship and Fellowship, academic talks and papers, a fiendish quiz, an Art Show, Merry & Pippin's Dance Workshop, a Dealers' Room, and Enyalië (act of remembrance at Tolkien's grave).
Oxonmoot is the special event of the Tolkien Society [...]

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Jo Walton
Lifelode (NESFA Press)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
Grace Lin
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
Dimitra Fimi
Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
Marek Oziewicz
One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of [...]

Malcx from ADC sends this report along - really wish I could be there!

Unseen Original Tolkien Artwork
An annual Tolkien-inspired Art Exhibition, held at The Redesdale Hall, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos will, for the first time, feature an original Tolkien drawing from 1911.
It is the first public showing of the Original drawing of "Lamb’s Farm, Gedling" drawn by [...]

Back in 1967-1970, Evelyn Byrne ran a program for New York City's Elizabeth Barrett Browning Junior High School, where she asked major literary and artistic figures of the time to write back with their recollections of what books inspired them while they were teenagers. An assortment of their responses were collected into the book [...]

Malcx from ADC sent this along. Wish I had more disposable income right now!
Hallo from ADC Publications,
Renowned Tolkien Artist, Ted Nasmith, has just sent us three new images ready for our August 2010 Exhibition and we can now unveil these latest Original artworks (images attached) and make them available to the public prior to [...]

Another event coming up soon in the UK, this one sent along by the Tolkien Society. Please let me know how it goes if you attend all or part of this. Sounds like fun!

The Mariner: Sailing Around Middle-earth
Sarehole Mill
15th & 16th May 2010
Sarehole Mill and Recreation Ground, Cole Bank Road, Hall [...]

Malcolm sends along this press release as well.
A prelude exhibition by Ted Nasmith and other leading artists of J.R.R.Tolkien24th April – 19th June 2010
Discover more about some of the real places behind the scenes described in Tolkien's books. The exhibition is a prelude to a 2011/2 exhibition, coinciding with the predicted release of [...]