Tolkien's amazing world: understanding Middle-earth and how it came to be

This course is aimed at adults and features discussion of violence, incest and mental health. Owing to the nature of the material covered, this course may not be suitable for under 18s.

Course programme

Friday 8 January 2016

Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other course members in the bar which opens at 18:15. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.

19:00 Dinner
20:30 The Strange History of The Lord of the Rings and its Legendarium
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Saturday 9 January 2016

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Tolkien, Language, and History
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Tolkien’s Experiences of War
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free
16:00 Tea
16:30 Tolkien’s Greenness
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Tolkien’s Catholicism and Middle-earth’s Unorthodoxy
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Sunday 10 January 2016

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 The Bookverse and the Movieverse
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Tolkien and the Critics
12:30 Free
12:45 Lunch

The course will disperse after lunch.