2025 Tolkien Colloquium Tax-Exempt

Tolkien Poetry Colloquium Tax-Exempt
Seventy years after the publication of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s publications have only grown in popularity and reach. His works present a vision of a meaningful world in which courage, friendship, and unseen nobility may triumph even amid the shadows, for, as Sam recognizes even in Mordor, “in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” Thanks to the pioneering efforts of many, Tolkien’s life and works are becoming acknowledged as a ripe site for first-class research and transformative teaching. The Colloquium seeks not only to encourage individual scholars to intensify their work on Tolkien but to foster a cohort who can systematically advance the field, collaborate together inside and outside of academia, aid each together across disciplines and career stages. 
 
The 2025 Tolkien Colloquium will focus on the first volume of the Collected Poems (HarperCollins, 2024), featuring seminar-paper contributions from each participant circulated in advance. Thursday, April 3, night will feature a dinner and keynote talk by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Friday, April 4, holds a full day of seminar discussion with a public keynote by Michael Drout. Saturday, April 5, will continue the seminar discussion and conclude with Vespers, dinner, and conviviality off-campus. 

Date: April 3-5, 2025
Time: 6-9 April 3, 9am-5pm, April 4-5
Location: Armstrong-Browning Library
Fee/Registration includes: coffee, snacks, two lunches, two dinners