Previous Tolkien Society seminars

Dates, locations and subject of previous seminars:
Year Location Date Subject
2010 Aus Melbourne 28 August Tolkien's Odysseys - Middle-Earth and Beyond
2010 UK Birmingham 26 June Tolkien & Birmingham
2009 London 27 June Journeys & Destinations
2008 Roehampton 28 June Freedom, Fate and Choice in the Middle-earth writings of J. R. R. Tolkien
2007     2007 saw two seminars, one in the UK and one in Australia
2007 Aus Sydney 25 August Tolkien Down Under: The Art of Science and Magic
2007 Cam Cambridge 16 June Women in Tolkien
2006 Norwich 22 July Politics and Middle-earth
2005 Birmingham 7 June Replaced by Tolkien 2005 conference
2004 Carlisle 17 July Tolkien influenced and influencing
2003 Farnham 7 June Drawn from the History of Middle-earth
2002 Whitby 6 July Dramatising Fantasy: Adapting books for stage and screen
2001 No seminar   Everyone worn out!
2000 Bristol July 1 The Change of Ages
1999 Cambridge June 12 Tolkien, A Mythology for England?
1998 No seminar   Everyone worn out!
1997 Manchester June 21 The ways of creative mythologies - imagined worlds and their makers
1996 Colchester June 15 Tolkien, the Sea, and Scandinavia
1995 Leicester June 23 - 25 Travel and Communications in Tolkien's Worlds.
1994 Bournemouth June 11 Tolkien, The Monsters, The Middle-ages, and Middle-earth.
1993 Hexham June 25 - 27 Tolkien: Art, Archaeology, and Culture.
1992 Oxford August 17 - 23 Incorporated into the 1992 Tolkien Centenary Conference.
1991 Cardiff June 15 Open subject. With Terry Pratchett.
1990 Milton Keynes June 2 The First and Second Ages.
1989 Beverley June 24 Leaves from the Tree: J.R.R. Tolkien's Shorter Fiction.

Workshops prior to 1989

Dates, locations and subject of previous workshops:
Year Location Date Subject
1988 Cambridge June 11 Tolkien and Romanticism
1987 London May 16 - 17 celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Hobbit
1986 Leicester March 22 J R R Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller