In Episode 2 of the current series of University Challenge, Corpus Christi College, Oxford successfully answered the following three questions posed by Jeremy Paxman: • Kalessin, who transports Ged and Arren to Roke is the oldest dragon in works by…
The new Autumn 2008 programme offered by Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning is now online here. A hard copy of Choices will be available soon. To see my courses for the academic year 2008-2009 go to Teaching section above.
A new expanded edition of Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories” has just been published, edited by Douglas Anderson and Verlyn Flieger. The book includes previously unpublished versions of the essay, rejected passages, as well as a critical study of the history…
