Below you can find videos from my recent talks and lectures. Click on each thumbnail to watch the entire video.
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- “I hold the key”: J,R,R, Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences
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- Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales at 40 (Oxonmoot 2021)
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- Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes: a thoroughly vulpine talk in which there may be singing! (Tolkien 2019)
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- Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth (Bodleian Library Exhibition: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, 2018)
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- Sailing to the West: the Fall of Arthur, Beowulf and Tol Eressëa (Oxonmoot, 2017)
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- J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘A Secret Vice’: 85 Years On (Pembroke College, Oxford, 2016)
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- Tolkien and the Art of Book Reviewing: A Circuitous Road to Middle-earth (Oxonmoot, 2016)
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- Joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien Society Seminar, 2016)
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- The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien’s Legacy (TORCH and the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford 2015)
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- Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium (Oxonmoot 2015)
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- Τα ξωτικά του Τόλκιν: λαογραφία και μυθοπλασία (Athens Tolkien Symposium)
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- Tolkien’s Wales – A Literary Walk in the Black Mountains (Literature Wales)
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- On Tolkien’s “Sellic Spell” and Folktales
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- A Merry Tolkien Christmas: A Visit from St Nicholas and Tolkien’s Tinfang Warble
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- Fantasies of Space and Time (Keynote for PHI Congress, 2019)
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- Gnomes, Gnature, and the “Gnifty Gnomobile”: Elemental Spirits, Deforestation and Energy Systems in Transition in Upton Sinclair’s The Gnomobile
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- Fantasy, Magical Education, Knowledge, and Power (Lecture for Strixhaven)
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- The Otherworld Sea Voyage of St Brendan in Modern Fantasy Literature
You can access a YouTube playlist of my talks and lectures here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnDXbzHio3ThVMlCwNRvA8ek137PzhYL8
