{"id":31135,"date":"2009-02-12T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T01:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31135"},"modified":"2009-02-12T22:04:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T03:04:40","slug":"tolkien-scholar-will-speak-at-bradley-tuesday-feb-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/02\/12\/31135-tolkien-scholar-will-speak-at-bradley-tuesday-feb-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Scholar Will Speak At Bradley Tuesday, Feb. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>J.R.R. Tolkien scholar Douglas A. Anderson will present \u201cAnnotating The Hobbit & Other Adventures\u201d at Bradley University\u2019s Neumiller Chapel in Bradley Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Peoria, Illinois. Anderson is the award-winning author and editor of The Annotated Hobbit, Tales Before Tolkien, Tales Before Narnia, Seekers of Dreams, and, with Verlyn Flieger, an expanded critical edition of Tolkien\u2019s On Fairy-stories. He is also an editor of the academic journal Tolkien Studies.<\/p>\n

Bradley adjunct and former Illinois Central College English professor Mike Foster will be the moderator of the free lecture. Foster has been the North American representative of the Tolkien Society since 1995. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005, he taught a literature course on Tolkien and another on fantasy literature at Illinois Central College. In 2006 and 2008, he taught an upper-division version of that class at Bradley University. The lecture is sponsored by the Cullom-Davis Library Speakers Committee in conjunction with The Friends of the Library Committee. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J.R.R. Tolkien scholar Douglas A. Anderson will present \u201cAnnotating The Hobbit & Other Adventures\u201d at Bradley University\u2019s Neumiller…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,7,192,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-hobbit-book","category-events-lectures","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t