{"id":107975,"date":"2020-05-10T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=107975"},"modified":"2020-05-10T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:19:50","slug":"annual-tolkien-lecture-on-fantasy-literature-to-be-an-online-symposium-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2020\/05\/10\/107975-annual-tolkien-lecture-on-fantasy-literature-to-be-an-online-symposium-may-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature to be an online symposium May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" class=\"intro\">The Pembroke College\u2019s annual Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature this year will be turned into an online symposium. This year&#8217;s lecture will discuss a particularly timely subject: &#8220;&#8230;the importance of fantasy in times of crisis: how science-fiction and fantasy literature respond to, and provide inspiration during, moments of despair and personal difficulty.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"192\" class=\"wp-image-47234 no-lazyload\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3264611a_c_p.jpg\" alt=\"JRR Tolkien\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\">More on The Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>The Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature was established in 2013 at Pembroke College, Oxford, where J.R.R. Tolkien worked for twenty years as professor of Anglo-Saxon. 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