News: April 2015

The Tolkien Estate has launched a new website. It is a fantastic new educational resource for readers of Tolkien’s works.

The “Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative” course goes live on Monday, April 27th  and is back for its third year.

Tolkien’s original dust-jacket design for The Hobbit is currently on public display as part of the Bodleian Library’s ‘Marks of Genius’ exhibition.

It is with great dismay that we must sadly inform you of the death on Friday of one of our Tolkien Society members. Mick Wilkes has died after a long and painful illness, at St. Mary’s Hospice, with his wife Viv and sons John and David beside him.

Dr Corey Olsen of the Mythgard Institute will be teaching an online course focusing on J.R.R. Tolkien’s poetry starting May this year.

The winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2015 were announced at the Tolkien Society’s Annual Dinner in Arundel on Saturday 11 April.

The Tolkien Estate has launched a new website. It is a fantastic new educational resource for readers of Tolkien’s works.

It is with great dismay that we must sadly inform you of the death on Friday of one of our Tolkien Society members. Mick Wilkes has died after a long and painful illness, at St. Mary’s Hospice, with his wife Viv and sons John and David beside him.

The “Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative” course goes live on Monday, April 27th  and is back for its third year.

Dr Corey Olsen of the Mythgard Institute will be teaching an online course focusing on J.R.R. Tolkien’s poetry starting May this year.

Tolkien’s original dust-jacket design for The Hobbit is currently on public display as part of the Bodleian Library’s ‘Marks of Genius’ exhibition.

The winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2015 were announced at the Tolkien Society’s Annual Dinner in Arundel on Saturday 11 April.