So honoured to be included among such company! www.tolkiensociety.org/events/chris...
The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce it will be hosting the online Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November 2024. This November marks 100 years since th...
So honoured to be included among such company! www.tolkiensociety.org/events/chris...
The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce it will be hosting the online Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November 2024. This November marks 100 years since th...
He was a student at Merton the year Tolkien retired and studied English Lit so thereās a non-zero chance they met which was something Iād never considered until reading more about him today.
Do we know if Kris Kristofferson ever met Tolkien?
Super excited to say that I'm officially a core member of the team @digitaltolkien.com! James and everyone else have been so welcoming!
If you missed it, here's the latest livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEwu...
YouTube video by Digital Tolkien Project
This is actually something neat about how Tolkien, to my mind, understands and presents power and contests of power. Supernatural characters don't have don't have a static 'power level' like a D&D character and their strength often isn't show in straight fights.
Thrilled to be presenting at this event on the work of the Tolkien Linked Open Data Project (which will be launching on Christopher Tolkien's birthday, the day after my talk!) Hat tip to @lorehouse.bsky.social for suggesting the brilliant title of my talk :-)
