Upcoming Tolkien-related events in 2024
"Ian McKellen on Stage" at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London (October 2019).
Updated: 20 January 2024
There is a wonderful flourishing of Tolkien-related events in recent years with more Universities, cultural institutions and others exploring Middle-earth (and beyond). 2024 is no different!
The 2023 Upcoming Tolkien-related events list can be found here.
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 miscellaneous
📆 The Tolkien Collector’s Guide has a great calendar here too.
🌐 LOTRO (The Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG) 2024 events
🌐 For my LOTRO based RP-Lite storytelling/social events: more info soon.
📅 Ongoing events and exhibitions
📆🌐 Tolkien Trewsday
Each week on Tuesday I run an online Tolkien community event called #TolkienTrewsday with the aim to share knowledge, creativity and love for J.R.R. Tolkien, his works and also adaptations of Middle-earth.
Where: Currently on Twitter and BlueSky. Hoping to create a hub on Facebook.
Tolkien Trewsday hub:
https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-tolkien-trewsday.html
📆👥 Origins of Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and Sarehole Guided walk
Sarehole Mill, Birmingham
https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/origins-of-middle-earth-j-r-r-tolkien-and-sarehole-guided-walk
Selected Sundays in 2024 -
January: 21st, 28th
February: 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
March: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st
April: 7th, 14th
📆👥 Oxford Tolkien 50
Various locations in Oxford | In-person talks
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series and https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e (Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series)
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/fantasy-literature (Fantasy Literature podcasts: previous Oxford Tolkien 50 talks and more)
📆👥 30 September 2023 – 6 April 2024
Virtual tour: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oVtCwnJwA7R
The Magic of Middle-earth
Experience Barnsley | Exhibition
https://www.experience-barnsley.com/whats-on/the-magic-of-middle-earth
https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/news/journey-to-magical-middle-earth-with-exciting-new-tolkien-inspired
exhibition/
https://www.experience-barnsley.com/news/journey-to-magical-middle-earth-with-exciting-new-tolkien-inspired-exhibition
📆👥 22 August 2024 – 11 January 2025
Taru sormusten herrasta (The Lord of the Rings)
Tampere, Finland | Theatre
https://www.tampere-talo.fi/en/events/the-lord-of-the-rings/
📅 Call for papers (CFPs)
CFP closing date: Thursday 29th February 2024
📆 Tolkien Society Hybrid Seminar 2024 – Tolkien’s Romantic Resonances
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/the-tolkien-society-hybrid-seminar-2024-tolkiens-romantic-resonances/
Event date: 6 July 2024
CFP closing date: 15 May 2024
📆 Mythcon 53: Fantasies of the Middle Lands
https://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc53-CFP.htm
Event date: 2-5 August 2024
CFP closing date: 31 May 2024
📆 "Tolkien and His Editors" for the 20th DTG Tolkien Seminar
https://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/52746/tolkien-seminar-2024-call-for-papers-en-scholarship/
Event date: 11-13 October 2024
📅 No date as yet
📆 The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature
Pembroke College, Oxford
https://tolkienlecture.org/
📆 Third Annual Tolkien Lecture
University of Birmingham
Previous events:The Houses of Healing: Tolkien, Fantasy, and the Road to Recovery (John Garth)
Second Annual Tolkien Lecture (2023)
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/events/2023/second-annual-tolkien-lecture.aspx
🌐 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUMh11B6u0"I hold the key": J. R. R. Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences (Professor Dimitra Fimi)
Fantasy Worlds Weekend (2022)
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/cwg-cultural-programme/fantasy-worlds-weekend.aspx
🌐 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usDl-qgsPEA
📅 Upcoming Events
📆 3 January 2024
🎭 J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday – the Tolkien Society “Tolkien Toast”
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/society/events/toast/
📆 19 January 2024
👥 The Arkenstone and the Ring: wilful objects in Tolkien's The Hobbit (Mark Atherton)
Oxford Tolkien 50 seminar series
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e
📆 26 January 2024
👥 Tolkien's 'Sellic Spell' and Beowulfian Poetics: the Artist and the Critic (Elena Vermeer)
Oxford Tolkien 50 seminar series
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e
📆 26-28 January 2024
🎭 Above All Shadows: Tolkien and Uncertain Futures
OzMoot, Australia - Hybrid event
https://signumuniversity.org/event/ozmoot2024/
📆 1 February 2024
🎭 'Dreaming in the Margins': Tolkien’s Engagements with The Battle of Maldon
Benjamin Weber
https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/academic-centers/wadecenter/events/
https://boxcast.tv/view/dreaming-in-the-margins-tolkiens-engagements-with-the-battle-of-maldon-with-benjamin-weber-qptx4pz6itrttkmxzcmy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfxDgsd2NeI
Notes: Live-streamed @ 7pm CST | 2 February 2024 @ 1am GMT
📆 2 February 2024
👥 Mr. Underhill: Topography and the Ring's Temptation (Bond West)
Oxford Tolkien 50 seminar series
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e
📆 9 February 2024
👥 “Fundamentally religious and Catholic"? Authorial Intent and the Intentional Fallacy (Holly Ordway)
Oxford Tolkien 50 seminar series
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e
📆 16 February 2024
👥 Ents and Ecological Entanglements (Dion Dobrzynski)
Oxford Tolkien 50 seminar series
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e
📆 17-18 February 2024
🌐 Online Midwinter Seminar 2024: Something Mighty Queer
Mythopoeic Society
https://www.mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2024.htm
📆 21 February 2024
🌐 Tolkien Themed Memorabilia Online Event
Barnsley Museums & Heritage Trust | Online talk via Facebook
https://bmht.org/news/tolkien-themed-memorabilia-online-event/
https://www.experience-barnsley.com/whats-on/britains-best-tolkien-memorabilia
https://www.facebook.com/BarnsleyMuseums/
📆 23 February 2024
👥 Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon (John Garth)
Oxford Tolkien 50 seminar series
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e
📆 Saturday 24 February 2024
🎭 The World Builders: The Influence of Fantasy in Film and Games Design
British Library
https://thebritishlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/the-world-builders-the-influence-of-fantasy/british-library/2838120
📆 1 March 2024
👥 Tolkien Beyond Tolkien: Unleashing the Sub-Creative Imagination in an Era of Bridge Building (Eduardo Gutierrez)
Oxford Tolkien 50 seminar series
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e
📆 8 March 2024
👥 “In the halls of Mandos”: Death, Deathlessness and Inter-Racial Relations in Beren and Lúthien (Anine Englund)
Oxford Tolkien 50 seminar series
https://tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/4395f488-3055-4ef1-8e8e-bc1fb5b8878e
📆 9 March 2024
🌐 "H. Rider Haggard, J.R.R. Tolkien and a literary revolution" (Tom Shippey)
Uppsala Books
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tom-shippey-on-h-rider-haggard-and-jrr-tolkien-tickets-823310623237
📆 23-25 March 2023
🌐 Tolkien Reading Day
Tolkien Society, the Prancing Pony Podcast and A Long-Expected Soundscape
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-reading-day-2024/
📆 Tuesday 26 March 2024 @ 7-9.30pm
🎭 The Epic History of the The Lord of the Rings
Tom Emanuel
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-epic-history-of-lord-of-the-rings-middle-earth-and-beyond-tickets-814089191687
📆 12–14 April 2024
🎭 Tolkien Society AGM and Springmoot 2024
Jesus College, Cambridge
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/agm-and-springmoot-2024/
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/society/events/agm/
📆 13 April 2024
🎭 The Psychologies of Middle-earth
20th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference
Keynote speaker: Dr Sara Brown
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/02/20th-annual-tolkien-at-uvm-conference
Hybrid (via Teams)
📆 17 April 2024
👥 Bitesize: Tolkien Illustration in the Soviet Bloc
Dr Joel Merriner
Plymouth University
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/spring-2024-bitesize-tolkien-illustration-in-the-soviet-bloc
📆 20 April 2024
🌐 The Lord of the Rings Online 17th anniversary
https://www.lotro.com/
📆 27 April 2024 @ 9am-5pm
🎭 UK Moot
Signum University, York
https://signumuniversity.org/event/ukmoot2024/
📆 15-17 May 2024
🌐 Conjuring Creatures and Worlds
GIFCon 2024
Glasgow
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/fantasyatglasgow/gifcon/
CFPs (closed): https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2023/11/02/gifcon-2024-conjuring-creatures-and-worlds-call-for-papers/
📆 Saturday 15 June 2024
👥 New York Tolkien Conference
Baruch College, 55 Lexington Ave, at East 24th St, New York City, USA
https://nyctolkienconference.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/ny-tolkien-conference-returns-in-2024/
📆 30 June – 6 July 2024
👥 The Making of Middle-earth: Tolkien and the First Age
University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
Type: In-person course
Tutor: Darren Ormandy
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-making-of-middle-earth-tolkien-and-the-first-age
📆 1-4 July 2024
🎭 International Medieval Congress
Leeds
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/
Tolkien sessions: https://wotanselvishmusings.blogspot.com/2023/07/cfp-leeds-2024-imc-tolkien-sessions.html
📆 6-7 July 2024
🎭 Tolkien’s Romantic Resonances
Tolkien Society hybrid seminar
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/the-tolkien-society-hybrid-seminar-2024-tolkiens-romantic-resonances/
📆7-13 July 2024
👥 “Written in my life-blood”: J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings
University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
Type: In-person course
Tutor: Darren Ormandy
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/written-in-my-life-blood-jrr-tolkien-and-the-lord-of-the-rings
📆 2-5 August 2024
🎭 Mythcon 53: Fantasies of the Middle Lands
https://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-53.htm
📆 4-10 August 2024
👥 An Introduction to Tolkien's Mythology
University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
Type: In-person course
Tutor: John Garth
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/an-introduction-to-tolkiens-mythology?code=O23I606OER
📆 8-12 August 2024
🎭 Worldcon
82nd World Science Fiction Convention)
https://glasgow2024.org/
📆 11-17 August 2024
👥 Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in Oxford
University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
Type: In-person course
Tutor: John Garth
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/tolkien-and-cs-lewis-in-oxford?code=O23I712OER
📆 11-13 October 2024
🎭 "Tolkien and His Editors" for the 20th DTG Tolkien Seminar
German Tolkien Society hybrid seminar
https://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/52746/tolkien-seminar-2024-call-for-papers-en-scholarship/
📆 21 November 2024
Christopher Tolkien’s Birthday
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