Events
2019 New York City Tolkien Event Calendar:
January 25 through May 12, 2019
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY Read More
The Tolkien Collector’s Guide has further details of the NY Exhibit. READ MORE
In connection with the Morgan Library and Museum Tolkien Exhibition Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull are presenting their illustrated public lecture on ‘Tolkien and the Visual Image’ This lecture will take take place
The Shores of Faery, MS. Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 22r
© The Tolkien Trust 1995
January 31st 2019 Read more on their blog here
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE CLICK TO PURCHASE VIA THE MORGAN LIBRARY
In Partnership with The Morgan Library and Museum:
Tolkien Weekend 2019
Saturday, March 16th 2019
2pm
Tolkien and Inspiration:
A Multidisciplinary Symposium
Where:
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY
ABOUT:
From The Morgan Library and Museum:
“Explore multiple facets of Tolkien’s inspirations in his writing as well as how his work impacts readers in personal and unexpected ways today. Presented in partnership with the NY Tolkien Conference & Fellowship, speakers include Nicholas Birns, Adjunct Instructor at New York University; Leslie Donovan, Chair, Honors College, University of New Mexico; Kristine Larsen, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Central Connecticut State University; and Chris Vaccaro, Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at The University of Vermont with a keynote presentation by John Garth, Tolkien scholar and author of Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth.”
The exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth will be open at 1 PM for program attendees.
Tickets: $15; free for Morgan Members and students with a valid ID.
Tickets will be available online on January 15th, 2019.
VISIT THE MORGAN LIBRARY ONLINE FOR MORE INFO BY CLICKING HERE
Sunday March 17th 2019
TIME TBA
REGISTRATION TBA Jan. 15th 2019
New York Tolkien Conference
Celebrating Creativity & Imagination
Baruch College Vertical Campus
One Bernard Baruch Way
(55 Lexington Ave at 24th St)
New York, NY 10010
ROOMS TBA
Read More of Our Speakers Here
PAST EVENTS:
Wednesday January 3rd, 2018
Tolkien Birthday Toast: To the Professor!
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
7pm to 9pm.
Hauser and Wirth Gallery
(Not a NY Tolkien Conference event)
J.R.R Tolkien and the Related functions of language and mythology.
Presented by Jessica Burke
For Tolkien, the construction of language bred a mythology, which we know today as Middle-earth with its historical tales of Rings, Hobbits, Elves, Wizards & Dwarves. What did he mean when Tolkien said, “to give your language an individual flavour, it must have woven into it the threads of an individual mythology”? How did Middle-earth come to life via languages of his Secondary World? This talk shall explore the languages of Middle-earth, the cultures that speak them, the effect language has within the world and stories, and their place within our modern world.
ABOUT: Jessica Burke is Editor in Chief at Myth Ink Books, Co-Chair of the New York Tolkien Conference, recipient of the 2012 President’s Gold Medal for her work on The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman, was awarded the Beyond Bree MENSA Award in 2005 for her Tolkien Scholarship, is currently an adjunct lecture for the City University of New York
Friday March 23rd 2018
Baruch College Vertical Campus
Room 7-155
One Bernard Baruch Way
(55 Lexington Ave at 24th St)
New York, NY 10010
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Note:
See link for global Tolkien Reading Day 3/25 event
Tolkien Reading Day Event
Doors Open 12pm
Presentation begins: 12:30pm
Q&A after Presentation
Followed by Readings from the work of Tolkien
(See below to register)
A Great Burden Without Guidance: The Six Mortal Ringbearers
Presented by: Nicholas Birns
The One Ring was made by and meant for Sauron, the malevolent Maia gone rogue. But Sauron’s great defeat at the end of the Second Age, and the ‘accidents’ of history, cause it to be borne by six very different individuals, of very diverse origins, social status, and moral character: the Númenórean king Isildur, the river-halflings Déagol and Sméagol/Gollum, and the Hobbits Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, and Sam Gamgee. On March 25, the ‘anniversary’ of the final relinquishing of the Ring’s great burden, we will compare and discuss the lives and personalities of these six ringbearers as a way to come to grips with Tolkien’s fascination with special items or tokens (Palantiri and Silmarilli as well as the Rings of Power) and how they illuminate his understanding of creativity and possessiveness.
ABOUT: Nicholas Birns first read The Lord of the Rings in the early months of 1975, finishing very near to the memorable day of March 25. He has published on Tolkien in Tolkien Studies, Mythlore, and The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He is also the author of Understanding Anthony Powell (University of South Carolina Press, 2004), Theory After Theory (Broadview, 2010) Barbarian Memory (Palgrave, 2013), and Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead (Sydney University Press, 2015), as well as many other books and journal articles. including contributions to Exemplaria, Science-Fiction Studies, Leviathan, Victorians Institute Journal, and Extrapolation. He currently is Associate Professor at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts, New York University.
May 22nd-June 14th 2018
Lewis and Tolkien: Of Wardrobes and Rings
Wardrobes & Rings is a play set in Oxford’s Eagle & Child pub. Aging and legendary authors, J.R.R. Tolkien and his great friend C.S. Lewis, meet for what turns out to be the very last time.
Sheen Theatre, New York City
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