Tolkien 2005 Committee

Anne has been reading and re-reading The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and the Histories for several years with her family, and has been excited to find another group committed to the study of these works. She attended her first Oxonmoot in 2003 and arrived not knowing anyone nor quite what to expect. Within 24 hours she was completely immersed in what she describes as "a truly remarkable weekend of friendship, Tolkien scholarship and lore". She made ongoing friendships with a group of wonderful people that she would never have otherwise met, and is enthusiastically looking forward to Tolkien 2005.

She works in the advertising industry; which is very film-oriented, and it seems her Tolkien involvement with friends in Los Angeles is usually clarifying what is book versus what was filmed. She says that she believes the added hype of the recent films will add another and probably quite volatile dimension to the event, giving Tolkien 2005 the chance to bring scholars and movie-buffs together for a not-to-be-missed event.