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The Tolkien Society is an educational charity, literary society, and international fan club, devoted to promoting the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Tolkien Society Blog
1M ago
The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow is holding a special event to celebrate the 70th anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight lecture. It will be held on-campus and online on Thursday 27 April 2023, 5-6:30pm BST. Attendance is free. On 15 April 1953, Tolkien delivered the ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
1M ago
The Tolkien Society and Luna Press Publishing are pleased to announce that Tolkien and Diversity: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Summer Seminar 2021, the twenty-second book in the Peter Roe series, is now available to preorder. Edited by Will Sherwood, and published under the auspices of the Peter Roe Memorial Fund, Tolkien and Diversity is ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
2M ago
We are pleased to announce the winners of The Tolkien Society Awards 2023. The Tolkien Society Awards recognise excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom, highlighting our long-standing charitable objective to “seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE”. Tolkien ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
4M ago
The first round of nominations for The Tolkien Society Awards 2023 is now open. The Awards recognise excellence in Tolkien scholarship and fandom, furthering the Society’s long-standing charitable objective to “seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE“. This year’s categories are ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
5M ago
To mark J.R.R. Tolkien’s 131st birthday, The Tolkien Society invites fans all over the world to participate in our annual Birthday Toast. The Toast After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo toasted his uncle’s birthday each year on 22 September. The Society continues that tradition by ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
6M ago
HarperCollins has announced a new Tolkien book, The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, will be published on 30 March 2023. Edited by Peter Grybauskas, it features Tolkien’s prose translation of the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon alongside his own alliterative poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son and related ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
7M ago
We are now calling for papers for the Tolkien Society 2023 seminar, on the theme The Mighty and Frail Númenor, which will be a hybrid event held online and in-person at the Hilton Hotel, Leeds on 2nd July 2022. The Mighty and Frail Númenor Sunday 2nd July (Hybrid event) The Hilton, Leeds (Free) ‘The Númenóreans attempted ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
10M ago
Video game developer Private Division has announced that it is partnering with Wētā Workshop to produce a video game set in Middle-earth. It is due to be released in 2024. Private Division, a video-game publisher responsible for bringing forward games including OlliOlli World, Hades and The Outer Worlds, is partnering with Weta Workshop to produce ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
11M ago
We are delighted to announce that Brian Sibley, winner of the Outstanding Contribution Award in the 2022 Tolkien Society Awards and editor of the recently announced volume The Fall of Númenor, will feature in the programme for Oxonmoot 2022. Brian has made a vast contribution to public awareness of Tolkien over in excess of 40 ..read more
The Tolkien Society Blog
1y ago
HarperCollins have announced that a new Tolkien publication, The Fall of Númenor, will be published on 10th November 2022. Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings of the Second Age. The book brings many of Tolkien’s writings together, and uses The Tale of Years in the Appendices of ..read more