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Happy Birthday, Frodo and Bilbo!
September 22, 2009 - September 22nd marks the birthday of these well-known and world-renowned Hobbits! |
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Alan Lee to Sign Books at Weta Cave
September 9, 2009 - Alan Lee is back in New Zealand signing books... and maybe more? |
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Celebrate Oxonmoot 2009 this September
July 26, 2009 - "Oxonmoot is the special event of the Tolkien Society year held on a weekend close to Bilbo & Frodo's birthdays. There is a range of activities such as academic talks & papers, workshops (see the Call for Papers below if you wish to offer something), new, second-hand and rare book dealers, an art show (with professional and amateur works), plus a quiet area where you can drink tea, fill up the corners and chat with old or new friends." |
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Lord of the Rings Radio City Music Hall Website Now Live
July 21, 2009 - Here's the latest press release regarding the Lord of the Rings score being performed at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. |
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Tolkien Festival at Penkridge Library
July 7, 2009 - Visit this festival (with Events for all ages) where Tolkien spent part of 1915/1916 in the Army training camps on Cannock Chase and in a small cottage called Gipsy Green in Great Haywood, near Penkridge, with his wife Edith |
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Rain Doesn't Damper this Year's "Fun at the Mill" Tolkien Weekend
May 19, 2009 - "Fantasy fans had a magical weekend in a Birmingham suburb transformed into a scene from Middle Earth to celebrate author JRR Tolkien." |
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Call for Papers for 2009 Tolkien Society Seminar, "Journeys & Destinations"
May 12, 2009 - For any serious Tolkien scholar, this seminar provides academics, students and independent scholars with a venue for interdisciplinary dialogue. |
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Middle-Earth Weekend at Sarehole Mill... Ten Years of Fun at Mill!
April 30, 2009 - Since the first "Fun At Mill!" Weekend in 2000 these events have focused on Tolkien's local connections, the local environment and the history of the area around Sarehole Mill, Moseley Bog, and the River Cole Valley – now known as the Shire Country Park. This year's theme is "Exploring Middle-earth". |
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March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day
February 27, 2009 - Tolkien Reading Day was set up to encourage people to read some of Tolkien’s stories at school or university, in reading groups, or as a family; the theme for 2009 is "Journeys & Destinations." |
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Tolkien 2005 Proceedings to be Formally Presented to the City of Birmingham
January 29, 2009 - "There will be a formal presentation of the Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On conference to the City of Birmingham on 30th January 2009." |