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Fantasy Literature
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Edward Lear and Fantasy

Jasmine Jagger provides a short introduction to Edward Lear.
Fantasy Literature
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Desiring Dragons: Creative and Critical Responses to the Dragon in Beowulf

Laura Varnam discusses dragons in fantasy literature.
Fantasy Literature
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What is the 'Silmarillion'?

This lecture is an introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien's third major work, 'The Silmarillion' (1977), and considers its lengthy development in numerous prose and verse texts over fifty years.
Fantasy Literature
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What Tolkien learnt from 'Beowulf': Representations of Evil

Monsters and evil in Tolkien
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth

A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi.
Poetry with Simon Armitage

Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Simon Armitage lectures on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Old Norse

Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Old English

Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Gothic

Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Medieval Welsh

Tolkien once termed Welsh 'the elder language of the men of Britain'; this talk explores how the sounds and grammar of Welsh captured Tolkien's imagination and are reflected in Sindarin, one of the two major Elvish languages which he created.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Middle English

This lecture is on Tolkien and middle english. Professor Carolyne Larrington, Tutorial Fellow in English Literature, St John's College, Oxford gives the first talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues

Tom Shippey's lecture will move from the detail to the (eventual) design of Tolkien's languages, and even the philosophical issues embedded in Tolkien's fiction.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Middle Earth and Tolkien's Digital Afterlives

Stuart Lee traces how Tolkien's Middle-earth and especially 'The Lord of the Rings' have been reimagined through a range of digital technologies, from games to films
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The Stories of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee and Margaret Kean explore the digital afterlives of these celebrated storytellers
Tolkien at Oxford

The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy

60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy

60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Writing The Hobbit: a perilous quest

In this talk Stuart Lee will look at the various texts we may call The Hobbit. Starting with the 1937 edition (on display) he will look at the changes enforced on Tolkien after he had finished The Lord of the Rings and how he coped with these.
Merton College

100 years on, how Tolkien came to the brink of Middle-earth

A talk given at a day-long symposium that focused on different aspects of JRR Tolkien's academic and literary work, and his life in Oxford. The talk is based on a paper published in 'Tolkien Studies 11' (West Virginia University Press: 2014).
Merton College

'Tolkien in Oxford', BBC 1968

A discussion between Dr Stuart Lee and film & TV director Leslie Megahey on the BBC's 1968 documentary, 'Tolkien in Oxford', given at a day-long symposium that focused on different aspects of Tolkien's academic and literary work and life in Oxford.
Merton College

"Wan, dim, and pale": the OED and Tolkien

A talk by Edmund Weiner, given at 'Tolkien in Oxford', a day-long symposium that focused on different aspects of JRR Tolkien's academic and literary work, and his life in Oxford.

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