Tolkien 2019 will take place from Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th August 2019 at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham. Directly opposite Birmingham New Street train station, it is easily accessible via public transport, whilst we will have exclusive use of much of the hotel’s facilities. We anticipate over 500 attendees for duration of the event.
Well-known Tolkien academic and fantasy scholar Dimitra Fimi will be joining us for that event. Dimitra is well known to the Society as a former speaker at our AGM, and author of Tolkien, Race and Cultural History and co-author of A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages with Andy Higgins.
Dr Dimitra Fimi is Lecturer in Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her first monograph, Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies. She co-edited the first critical “extended” edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay “A Secret Vice”, in which Tolkien theorizes his language invention (A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, HarperCollins, 2016). The book won the Tolkien Society Award for Best Book. Her latest monograph, Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), was runner up for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies.
As with this year’s Oxonmoot, we expect demand for Tolkien 2019 to be high. Visit Tolkien2019.com to book your place.
