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Christopher Tolkien at 100

18 October
2024-10-18 10:10:32 AM UTC

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 5:30 PM GMT

At the Weston Library Free event, booking required

About the event

Over more than four decades, JRR Tolkien’s son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien published some twenty-four volumes of his father’s work, much more than his father had succeeded in publishing during his own lifetime. Christopher gave up his own distinguished academic career as a fellow and tutor in English at Oxford, to devote his energies to publishing his father’s literary and academic works. His extraordinary scholarship and painstaking editorial work have brought to light the vast scale and richness of JRR Tolkien’s legendarium and delighted Tolkien readers the world over.

This series of short talks by Oxford scholars will explore Christopher Tolkien’s achievements as a scholar, writer and editor. A special one-day display of original material from the Tolkien archive will be on show for attendees.

Speakers

  • Baillie Tolkien has a BA from the University of Manitoba and an MA from Oxford. She married Christopher Tolkien in 1967, and edited J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas in 1976. She is a director of the Tolkien Estate and a trustee of the Tolkien Trust, as well as Christopher’s literary executor and trustee of his Estate.

  • Richard Ovenden is Bodley’s Librarian and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford. He was made OBE in 2019. He is the author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack (2020) and co-editor of The Great Tales Never End: Essays in memory of Christopher Tolkien (2022).

  • Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford. His most recent publications include Bagels, Bumf and Buses: A day in the life of the English language (2019), Osbern Bokenham’s Lives of the Saints (2020) and C.S. Lewis’s Oxford (2024).

  • Grace Khuri has a BA (English Language and Literature) and MPhil (Medieval English) from Merton College, Oxford, and is currently a DPhil candidate writing on ‘Tolkien’s Eldar Edda: Norse Myth, the Great War and the Writing of ‘The Silmarillion’’. She is the first doctoral candidate at Oxford to write solely on Tolkien.

  • Catherine McIlwaine is the Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. She is the author of Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (2018), and curated the Bodleian’s summer exhibition of the same name in 2018. She is co-editor of The Great Tales Never End: Essays in memory of Christopher Tolkien (2022).

  • Giuseppe Pezzini is Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature, and a Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the Tolkien editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies, and his forthcoming monograph on Tolkien’s theory of imagination will be published by Cambridge University Press in the coming months.

Booking information

This event is available to attend in person at the Weston Library.

The event is free and open to all but booking is required. When you have booked your place, the ticketing system will send you an automated confirmation.

Location

This lecture will be held in person in the Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre at the Weston Library.

Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG

https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/ ... hristopher-tolkien-at-100
19 October
2024-10-19 2:19:19 PM UTC
I hope someone can photograph the material from the collection that is displayed - it would be nice if there was some Christopher materials hitherto unseen (it seems more appropriate than showing known things by John Ronald...)
19 October
2024-10-19 4:04:13 PM UTC
I have my ticket. If photography is allowed I'll be taking pictures as well!
20 October
2024-10-20 8:38:38 AM UTC
Roccondil awesome, thanks!
8 November
2024-11-8 11:57:35 AM UTC
I have just had an email about this event, stating that it will be filmed, so fingers crossed it will be available for all to view in the near future.
8 November
2024-11-8 12:32:53 PM UTC
I haven’t been to Oxford for a few years so I’m looking forward to this.
9 November
2024-11-9 4:04:09 AM UTC
Oooooooh! I really really hope so. Let get Tolkien studies into the 21st century. It's a no-brainer to help expand the field. (The other is working to expand access in appropriate ways to primary research documents—anything is better than "out of print" at this point!)
18 November (edited)
2024-11-18 11:19:49 PM UTC
A very nice evening at the Bodleian. Here are some of the pictures I took of the display that was just by the entrance to the lecture theatre.

[ADMIN Sorry! I have to delete the pictures of the glass case, it is marked with a no-photos icon (lower right corner) even before they brought out the additional sign.]

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18 November
2024-11-18 11:28:53 PM UTC
Nice to meet you and Trotter there. I basically had the same photos as you, but slightly different angles. Did you see that after we took our photos of that case, they came out about 10 minutes later and placed a ‘Strictly no photos’ sign on it. So technically, we didn’t breach a rule as it wasn’t there to begin with. I don’t believe we used flash anyway.
My only other picture was this one at the end with the speakers.
It was fun and a very enjoyable couple of hours. Apparently they filmed it, although I saw no cameras.

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18 November
2024-11-18 11:44:17 PM UTC
Good to see you and Trotter as well. I took my photos at about 4.45, which was a little time after they had set up the registration desk. Definitely no notice about not taking photos and I didn't see one either as we left the lecture theatre.
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