15 Apr, 2025
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HT 2025 videos
Week 1: 24 January
Dimitra Fimi (University of Glasgow) 'Tolkien the Mythographer'
Week 2: 31 January
Kit Richards (University of Birmingham) ‘The Dwarves are a race apart’: Tolkien’s contribution to the specialisation of dwarves in popular fantasy’
Week 3: 7 February
Rebekah Lamb (University of St Andrews) ‘Tolkien's Forms of Detachment’
Week 4 HALF TERM – NO SEMINAR
Week 5: 21 February
Rafael Pascual (University of Granada) ‘Tolkien and old English prosody’
Week 6: 28 February
Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David) ‘Themes in The Lord of the Rings: A Defence and an Exploration'
Week 7: 7 March
Carl Phelpstead (Cardiff University) ‘'Alight Here for Middle-earth!': Tolkien, Place, and the Past’
Week 8: 14 March
Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg) ‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien's Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’
26 Jun, 2025
2025-6-26 5:45:54 PM UTC
The latest Tolkien seminars are available on YouTube.
Week 1: Grace O’Duffy (University of Oxford) ‘Middle-Earth Post-#MeToo’’
Week 2: Jolina Bradley (University of Oxford) ‘Tolkien and Arthurian Romance: The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings’
Week 3: Gabriel Shenk (Signum University) ‘J.R.R. Tolkien at the BBC’
Week 4: Andoni Cossio (Basque Country) ‘Trees, Tales, and Tolkien: A Growing Environmental Consciousness from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings’
Week 5: Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford) ‘Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation’ (Book launch)
Week 6: Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow) ‘Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition’
Week 7: Eliot Vale (University of Oxford) ‘Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully’
Week 8: [SUMMER COMMON ROOM] Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University) ‘The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?’
19 Sep, 2025
2025-9-19 2:31:32 PM UTC
20 April
2026-4-20 6:55:32 AM UTC
Tolkien Seminars HT 2026
Week 1: 20 January (Rainolds Room)
Juliana Dresvina (University of Oxford/Stanford) “The Forgotten Siblings: Parish, Redival, and the Art of Putting a Self Together"
Week 2: 27 January (Rainolds Room)
Cecilia Tamburini (University of Milan) "Poetic Language and the Making of Myth: Reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings through Owen Barfield"
Week 3: 3 February (Rainolds Room)
Ryan Syler (University of Marquette) "Galadriel: an empty vessel?"
Week 4: 10 February (Auditorium)
Erik Jampa Andersson (Independent Scholar and Writer) "Tolkien's 'Luxuriant Animism': Unseen Beings and the Animacy of Arda"
Week 5: HALF TERM – NO SEMINAR
Week 6: 24 February (Auditorium)
Anders Stenström (Independent Scholar and Archivist) "Beauty and Peril and Sorrow: A Web in Tolkien's Thinking"
Week 7: 3 March (Rainolds Room)
Mina Lukić Gunner (University of Belgrade) "Modes of Remembering J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fictional World"
Week 8: 10 March (Auditorium)
Thomas Honegger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena) "Habitatio est omen - or: like land, like people"
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