Upcoming Tolkien-related events in 2023
Updated: 4 June 2023
2023 looks to be a good year
for Tolkien fans for the number of events being run, both regular and one-offs.
2023 also marks a significant date, the 50th anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s
death.
Below are the known events so far. More will be added as they are announced.
Key: 🌐 = online, 👥 = in-person, 🎭 = hybrid
(option for online or in-person)
📅 Other calendars and repeat events
📆 The Tolkien Collector’s Guide has a great calendar here too.
🌐 LOTRO (The Lord of the Rings
Online MMORPG) 2023 events
🌐 For my LOTRO based RP-Lite storytelling/social
events, please look here.
👥 Origins of Middle-Earth: J.R.R.
Tolkien and Sarehole Guided walk
Sarehole Mill, Birmingham (UK)
Website / Events
A guided tour around places connected to J.R.R. Tolkien’s childhood. 📆 Various
dates:
- Sunday 4 June 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 11 June 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 18 June 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 25 June 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 2 July 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 9 July 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 23 July 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 30 July 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 6 August 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 13 August 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 20 August 2023 (10:00am)
- Sunday 27 August 2023 (10:00am)
📅 Tolkien-related events 2023
📆 Tuesday 3 January 2023🎭 J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday
📆 Friday 17 February 2023 @ 8.30pm🌐 Tolkien - Life, Work and Writing in OxfordIAB Tours (Ian Braisby)
📆 Sunday 26 February 2023👥 Elven Jewellery WorkshopSarehole Mill, Birmingham (UK)
📆 21-22 March 2023👥 G.B. Smith and J.R.R. Tolkien: a meaningful friendshipCorpus Christi College
📆 Saturday 25 March 2023🌐 Tolkien Reading Day (Theme: "Travel and adventure")
📆 Tuesday 28 March 2023 @ 12pm👥 The Great Tales Never End: in Memory of Christopher TolkienWith: Catherine McIlwaine, John Garth and Stuart Lee. Chaired by Grace KhuriOxford Literary Festival (In-person)
📆 Saturday 1 April 2023👥 19th annual Tolkien at UVM conference
📆 Saturday 1 April - Sunday 24 September 2023👥 The Magic of Middle-earthThe Novium Museum, Chichester
📆 Thursday 20 April 2023🌐 The Lord of the Rings Online 16th anniversary
📆 10-12 May 2023🌐 GIFCon 2023 (Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations)Topic: Boundaries and Margins
📆 Thursday 11 May – Saturday 13 May 2023🎭 The 58th International Congress on Medieval StudiesWestern Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA)
📆 Friday 12 May 2023👥 "The Houses of Healing: Tolkien, Fantasy, and the Road to Recovery"Tolkien Lecture (John Garth) / Fantasy Worlds weekendUniversity of BirminghamPrevious event was held in 2022 and the keynote speech was ‘"I hold the key": J. R. R. Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences’ by Dr Dimitra Fimi.
📆 Thursday 8 June 2023 (7pm BST)
🌐 "There and Back Again: Why We Keep Returning to Middle-earth"
Glasgow 2024 and TheOneRing.net
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2023/06/
Free tickets via EventBrite
YouTube Livestream
📆 Friday 9 June 2023 (8pm BST)
🌐 "Guide to Tolkien's Letters Livestream launch"
Tolkien Collector's Guide
https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=49287
YouTube Livestream
📆 Sunday 25 June 2023 (11am)👥 "Tolkien and Lewis: Friendship that redefined Fantasy"Lecture: Diane Purkiss and John GarthBradford Literature Festival
📆 Sunday 25 June 2023 (12.15pm)👥 "Who was J.R.R. Tolkien?Lecture: John Garth, Grace Khuri, Dr. Adam Roberts"Bradford Literature Festival
📆 Thursday 29 June 2023 - Saturday 1 July 2023
👥 "The Hobbit" stage adaption (by Alex Thomas and John Mann)
Oxford Playhouse (during the Oxford Festival of Arts)
https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/the-hobbit
📆 Sunday 2 July 2023🎭 Tolkien Society Seminar 2023: “The Mighty and Frail Númenor”Hybrid Event (In-person and online) – Leeds, UK
📆 Monday 3 July - Thursday 6 July 2023🎭 International Medieval CongressHybrid Event (In-person and online) - Leeds, UK
📆 Friday 28 - Sunday 30 July 2023
🌐 Interchanging Melodies Online Summit: Tolkien, Religion & Beyond
Tolkien Heads Online Summit
https://homebrewedchristianity.lpages.co/tolkienheads-theology-conference/
📆 Friday 4 August 2023 @ 6pm
👥 An Evening with Nick Groom (With Dr Hannah McDonald)
Waterstones, Cambridge
Booking: https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-nick-groom/cambridge
📆 5-6 August 2023🎭 Mythopoeic Society Online Summer Seminar 2023: "Fantasy Goes to Hell: Depictions of Hell in Modern Fantasy Texts"Online Event (Zoom and Discord)
📆 31 August – 3 September 2023🎭 Oxonmoot 2023 (50th anniversary)Hybrid Event (In-person and online) – Oxford, UK
📆 1-2 September 2023
👥 Tolkien Weekend
The Oratory, Birmingham
https://www.birminghamoratory.org.uk/tolkien-weekend-1st-2nd-september/
📆 2-3 September 2023
👥 Tolkien 50: Tolkien's Words and Worlds
Oxford (Booking now closed, waiting list open)
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/
📆 30 September 2023 - 6 April 2024
👥 The Magic of Middle-earth (Exhibition)
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (Experience Barnsley Museum and Discovery Centre)
https://www.experience-barnsley.com/whats-on/the-magic-of-middle-earth
📆 27-29 October 2023🎭 19th DTG Tolkien Seminar (German Tolkien Society)Hybrid Event (In-person and online) - Göttingen, Germany.Topic: "With other eyes: The Visualisation of Tolkien’s Work"
📆 Tuesday 21 November 2023🎭 Christopher Tolkien’s Birthday
📆 Sunday 26 November 2023
🌐 Tolkien Society Online Seminar: "Secondary Believers, Secondary Worlds: Tolkien and Religion in the Twenty-first Century"
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-online-seminar-2023-tolkien-and-religion-in-the-twenty-first-century/
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