“Beyond Romanticism: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Practical Agrarian Romance”
Professor Dickerson will explore one element of Tolkien’s comprehensive ecological vision expressed in his Middle-earth legendarium: the agrarianism of the Shire, and its contrast in the industrialized agriculture of Sauron and Saruman. While Tolkien’s works might be dismissed as mere romanticism–idyllic fantasy with no implications to our world–the talk will defend a claim that the underlying ecology in these works is fundamentally practical (at many levels). Thursday, October 23, 2008 4-5:30 p.m in the Prucha Archives Reading Room, John P. Raynor, S.J., Library (3rd floor).
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The seminar will be held on Saturday 28th June 2008, at Parkstead House, Whitelands College, Roehampton University, London.
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The first Tolkien Reading Day was March 25th, 2003. It was created by the Tolkien Society as a day to encourage the reading of Tolkien’s works, and it is hoped to have it integrated into school and library settings in addition to being celebrated by fans personally.
The Tolkien Society’s Tolkien Reading Day page
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Elijah Wood was born on this day in 1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Liv Tyler was born on this day in 1977 in New York, New York.
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Orlando Bloom was born on this date in 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.
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