Since Michaelmas Term 2023, the Oxford Tolkien Network has organised a weekly academic seminar during term time, featuring a wide and diverse range of Tolkien scholars from many different backgrounds and approaches.
Philippa Boynes (Screenwriter) Other Minds and Hands
Holly Ordway (Houston Christian University)Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture: The Making of The Lord of the Rings as a Modern Book
Stuart Lee (University of Oxford) The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?, and J. R. R. Tolkien and G. B. Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
Michael Ward (University of Oxford) C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford) The authors and styles of The Lord of the Rings
Grace Khuri (University of Oxford) Medievalism in the Margins: Echoes of Anglo-Saxon England in Appendix A of The Lord of the Rings – From Page to Screen
Mark Williams (University of Oxford) A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
Michael G.R. Tolkien (Poet and Critic) – A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
Catherine McIlwaine (Tolkien Archivist, Bodleian Library) “Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
John Holmes (University of Birmingham) A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
Will Sherwood (University of Glasgow) "I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
Edmund Weiner (Oxford English Dictionary) ‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Exeter College, University of Oxford) Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
Dr. Eleanor Parker (Brasenose College, University of Oxford) Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar,
David Bernabé (University of Oxford/University of the Basque Country) Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
