There's a little more info about the
Second Spring Tolkien conference, which I've copied below as I'm suspicious this link won't take you right there.
I have to say it looks very interesting so far and is in a fabulous location (couldn't be better really) but the price is ridiculously high considering it couldn't hope to be as packed a programme as that at Tolkien 2005.
£695?!
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Oxford Tolkien Conference
The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration
Exeter College, Oxford
Monday 21st to Friday 25th August 2006
Exeter College Oxford is the college where J.R.R. Tolkien was an undergraduate. He graduated in 1915 with a First in English Language and Literature. The great mythopoeic work for which he would become famous was already germinating in his mind. In the years that followed he married Edith Bratt (Luthien) and served in the Battle of the Somme. The great mythopoeic work for which he would become famous was already germinating in his mind.
Ever since the publication of The Hobbit, Tolkien's fantasy and mythological writing has eclipsed his important academic work. C.S. Lewis said of The Lord of the Rings: "The book is like lightning from a clear sky... To say that in it heroic romance, gorgeous, eloquent, and unashamed, has suddenly returned at a period almost pathological in its anti-romanticism, is inadequate... It marks not a return but an advance or revolution: the conquest of new territory. Nothing quite like it was ever done before."
How and why did the lightning strike? This international conference will examine Tolkien's extraordinary achievement from a variety of angles, asking some of the leading specialists in the growing field of Tolkien studies to discover the main sources of his inspiration and influences upon the work.
John Garth on Tolkien, Exeter, and the Great War
Verlyn Flieger on Tolkien and Northernness
Alison Milbank on Tolkien, Thomism, and G.K. Chesterton
Philip Zaleski on Tolkien and his Predecessors (Romantics, Pre-Raphaelites)
Patrick Curry on Tolkien and Enchantment
Tolkien and the Inklings
Tolkien and Language
Tour of Oxford
Specialized bookshop
Special guests
Prices: £695 full board; non-res. per day £100; apply for latest details.
Watch for further announcements.
Stratford Caldecott
Conference Office, Exeter College, Oxford OX1 3DP
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