I give you below two images: The first one is by Mervyn Peake. It’s his illustration of the nursery rhyme “Little Jack Horner”, from the book Ride a cock-horse and other nursery rhymes (British Library Publishing). Peake’s Little Jack Horner is…

* This lecture was delivered as a keynote in 2012 at the Politics of Contemporary Fantasy conference at the University of Wurzburg, Germany. It revisits main ideas I explored in my 2008 book, Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History, and adds some…

I am very pleased to announce that all five sessions on J.R.R. Tolkien I proposed for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds 2019 have been accepted! This will be the 5th consecutive year of papers on J.R.R. Tolkien at IMC…

After six wonderful Tolkien sessions at Leeds 2018 (you can read a round-up of all paper sessions here: http://dimitrafimi.com/tolkien-at-imc-leeds-2018-round-up/) it’s now time to start preparing for Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2019 (the IMC is scheduled for  1-4 July 2019). Here…