*Update – June 2017 I am very pleased to announce that all four sessions on J.R.R. Tolkien I proposed for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds 2017 have been accepted! This will be the third consecutive year of papers on…
I am delighted to announce that the School of Education at UWIC will be hosting an Open Lecture by Tom Shippey entitled: “Writing into the Gap: Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún“ on Wednesday, 23rd March 20011, at 7pm,…
The new Tolkien book I mentioned earlier on this year (see 30 January 2009) has now been released! Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a verse retelling of the Völsunga saga, which he originally composed in the 1920s…
After a long and pretty nasty illness, I am back online to report – somewhat belatedly – some really exciting news! A new Tolkien book is scheduled to be released in May 2009. HarperCollins will publish Tolkien’s retelling of the…