Christopher Tolkien Centenary – Recommended events and books

Recommended events and reading on Christopher’s Centenary

 This is a short blog post to highlight Centenary events and also books which either celebrate the work of Christopher or were written by Christopher, especially outside of his Legendarium output.

🖉 Events 🎪

🧙 Christopher Tolkien at 100: a celebration
🏰 Bodleian Library, Oxford (Weston Library)
📆 Monday 18 November 2024
🎫 In-person, free
🌐 https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/nov24/christopher-tolkien-at-100

🧙 Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference
🏰 Tolkien Society
📆 Saturday 23 – Sunday 24 November 2024
🎫 Online, free
🌐 https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/christopher-tolkien-centenary-conference/

** Booking still open, this weekend, free to attend ** 

 

🖉 Books 📚

📗 The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien
✍ Richard Ovenden & Catherine McIlwaine (editors)
📆 Published by the Bodleian Library (24 June 2022)
📌 ISBN: 9781851245659
🛒 Bodleian Libraries | 🛒 Amazon

 

📗 The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise
✍ Christopher Tolkien
📆 Published by HarperCollins (11 November 2010)
📌 ISBN: ‎9780007416967
🛒 Amazon (Out of print)

** This was a print-on-demand publication from the official Tolkien Bookshop (HarperCollins) which has now closed. It appears the Viking Society for Northern Research (London) has a PDF available here for “The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise“ by Christopher Tolkien and also “Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks” translated by Gabriel Turville-Petre with an Introduction by Christoper Tolkien, available here.