15 Dec, 2023
2023-12-15 3:11:01 PM UTC
Some of the recent lectures on Tolkien at Oxford have been released as video or audio podcasts.
- 'J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist'
A talk by Professor Simon Horobin on Tolkien's long-standing career and interest in philology.
A talk by Dr Laura Varnam on Tolkien's long engagement with the Old English poem 'Beowulf'.
- 'A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?' A talk by PhD candidate Grace Khuri, University of Oxford, on Tolkien's Elvish history and English 'mythology'.
- Tolkien and the Classics A talk by Professor Giuseppe Pezzini on the influences of Classical Literature on Tolkien. [Audio only]
- Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the climax of 'The Lord of the Rings' Audio only recording by Dr Michael Ward, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford
- How to write 'The Lord of the Rings' A lecture by Dr Stuart Lee as part of the Tolkien 50th series
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/fantasy-literature
15 Dec, 2023
2023-12-15 3:40:05 PM UTC
They have also published the 50th Anniversary Conference Talks
- Introduction: the history and diversity of Tolkiens' reception (Pezzini)
- John Garth (Author and Journalist): “An Entirely Vain and False Approach”: Literary Biography and why Tolkien was Wrong about It
- Grace Khuri (Oriel College, University of Oxford): Kipling’s Medievalism and Tolkien’s Book of Lost Tales: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History in the Early 20th Century
- Holly Ordway (Word on Fire Institute/Houston Christian University): Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Past Perspectives, Present Insights, Future Study
- Yoko Hemmi (Keio University): Tolkien, “British” identity, and the Celtic studies
- Michaël Devaux (Université de Caen Normandie): Tolkien's Textual Variants and the Authorial Status
- Simon Horobin (Magdalen College, University of Oxford): ‘Never Trust a Philologist’: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Place of Philology in English Studies
Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford): ‘Not about Anything but Itself’: Tolkien’s Language Invention and Literary Theory
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/anniversary
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