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T.A. Shippey Speaks on Tolkien and Movies
Thursday, February 16: Noon Thursday, February 16: 4:00 p.m. Photo © by Catherine Shippey |
(February 15-16, 2006) Dr. Tom Shippey, well known Anglo-Saxonist and Tolkien scholar will be in Stillwater Feb 15th and 16th. Lord of the Rings fans will recognize him from his appearance in interviews on the the Lord of the Rings movie DVDs. He is also the author of The Road to Middle Earth, a study of the literary roots of Tolkien's fiction. His appearances will focus on "Palantirs and Providence: Tolkien's Books and Jackson's Movies" and "Hollywood and the Middle Ages, especially King Arthur." Known as a witty and entertaining speaker, Dr. Shippey's knowledge of film, science fiction/fantasy, Anglo-Saxon, and the Middle Ages promises to make his lectures a unique blend of the medieval and modern. Dr. Shippey taught Old English at St. John's College, Oxford for seven years, just overlapping with Tolkien's last years of retirement. Subsequently he inherited Tolkien's chair and syllabus as Professor of English Language at Leeds. He is currently at Saint Louis University, where he holds the Walter J. Ong Chair in Humanities. He is the editor of the journal Studies in Medievalism, has just delivered a collection of essays on Jacob Grimm, titled The Shadow-walkers; Jacob Grimm's mythology of the monstrous, and is working on a monograph on speech in early Germanic poetry, provisionally titled, How the Heroes Talk. He has also collaborated with Harry Harrison on two science fiction trilogies, the "West of Eden" sequence and the "Hammer and the Cross" sequence. The talks are sponsored by the Norris Foundation and coordinated by the OSU English Department. Links of Interest:
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