Welcome to The Hall of Fire

November 2009

Medieval hall-style farmhouse known as Bayleaf, at the Weald and Downland open air museum in Sussex. The fire burning inside is causing smoke to issue out of the window

After something of a slow start, the Education team has been kept busy this year with a wide variety of requests for help and information. We have also continued helping and encouraging new writers and researchers, some of whom have had their work published in Amon Hen and Mallorn during the year. It is a privilege and a pleasure to be able to support new writers.

If you are interested in the kinds of research being done, the kinds of essay topics being undertaken by students of all ages, and/or the kinds of activities in which Tolkien enthusiasts participate, the list which follows will provide a good deal of information.

It shows some of the interesting queries and some significant snippets of information that have come in. At times the wider team of Volunteers has been called on for help. As always, they have been a mine of information, and we are most grateful for their help.

photograph of fields and woods from the cover of The Mirror Crack'd

During the summer (what summer? you may ask) we have had an unusual number of requests for help (maybe bad weather makes for good research!)

Lynn Forest-Hill