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Fantasy Literature
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The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?

Stuart Lee talks on 'The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?'
Fantasy Literature
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C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings

Michael Ward talks on 'C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings'
Fantasy Literature
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Medievalism in the Margins: Echoes of Anglo-Saxon England in Appendix A of The Lord of the Rings – From Page to Screen

Grace Khuri talks on 'Medievalism in the Margins: Echoes of Anglo-Saxon England in Appendix A of 'The Lord of the Rings' – From Page to Screen'
Fantasy Literature
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A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages

Mark Williams talks on 'A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages'
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The authors and styles of 'The Lord of the Rings'

Giuseppe Pezzini talks on 'The authors and styles of The Lord of the Rings'
Fantasy Literature
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J. R. R. Tolkien and G. B. Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?

Stuart Lee talks about Tolkien's recently published war poetry in the context of G. B. Smith.
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Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' as a Modern Book

Holly Ordway presents on 'Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture'.
Fantasy Literature

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 as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series.
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Tolkien and Beowulf

A talk by Dr Laura Varnam on Tolkien's long engagement with the Old English poem 'Beowulf' as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series.
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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', as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series.
Fantasy Literature

Tolkien and the Classics

A talk by Professor Giuseppe Pezzini on the influences of Classical Literature on Tolkien. [Audio only]
Fantasy Literature

How to write 'The Lord of the Rings'

A lecture by Dr S Lee as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series.
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.

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