Section 1 Abstracts of the Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference

Tolkien Society: 'a star shines on the hour of our meeting'

Tolkien Centenary Conference Proceedings Abstracts

Reminiscences: Oxford in 1920, Meeting Tolkien and Becoming an Author at 77.: Reminiscences of Vera Chapman's life, including going up to Oxford just after the First World War (between the time when Tolkien was an undergraduate and his return as a Professor).

Sermon at Thanksgiving Service, Keble College Chapel, 23rd August 1992.: Discusses Tolkien's work in the context of parables.

Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien.: Abstract: Reminiscences of walking with Tolkien around Malvern and of visits to his house in Sandford Road. What he said and what our mutual friend, C.S. Lewis, said about him.

Publishing Tolkien.: During the last thirty years of the Professor's life, but especially towards the end, Rayner Unwin met, talked with, and worked for, J.R.R. Tolkien. It was a business relationship between author and publisher, but increasingly it became a trusting friendship as well. In an ideal world authors and publishers should always act in partnership. This certainly happened between Professor Tolkien and George Allen & Unwin, but in some respects, the speaker explains, the collaboration had very unusual features.