Tolkien Seminar TT 2026

Magdalen College

Thursdays 30 April – 18 June

 

9may

 

The seminars will take place on Thursdays during term time, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., in Magdalen College, in the Sophia Sheppard Room.

Please ask the porters for directions. No registration is required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Week 1: 30 April 
    Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)
    “Downfalls and ruins: Tolkien and the Lost World of Catholic England”

  • Week 2: 7 May  
    Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
    “Lexical Palimpsests: Old English and Old Norse Loan Words in Tolkien's Gnomish Lexicon (1917)”

  • Week 3: 14 May 
    Anine Englund (University of Oxford)
    "Tolkien the Parodist: Revisiting Songs for the Philologists”

  • Week 4: HALF TERM – NO SEMINAR

  • Week 5: 28 May
    Andoni Cossio (University of the Basque Country/St Catherine's College Oxford/ University of Glasgow)
    “Tolkien and Sawles Warde”

  • Week 6: 4 June 
    Thomas Wood (University of Birmingham)
    “Genealogy of Smaug - draconic influences on Tolkien”

  • Week 7: 11 June 
    Violeta De Frutos (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
    “Charting Faërie: Cartography as the Threshold of Enchantment”

  • Week 8: 18 June
    Eleonora Rondena (University of Milan)
    “The Verbal System of Quenya: Structures, Functions, and Linguistic Models in Tolkien’s Linguistic Invention”