J.R.R. Tolkien CBE held his first full academic position as Reader in English Language at Leeds in 1920. His academic career in Leeds was short, only 5 years, but when he left to take up the Rawlinson and Bosworth Chair of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, he was already a Professor of English. During his time in Leeds he collaborated on a new edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and in 1924 Tolkien and his growing family moved to 2 Darnley Road, West Park.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Tolkien links with Leeds in 2015
The Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds made the purchase of letters, poems and prose that will form the Gordon-Tolkien Collection held by the Brotherton Library.
'They provide insight into the close friendship between Tolkien and Eric Gordon,
who joined him in the English department at Leeds in 1922.'
Sing-along-a-Tolkien
Among the papers is a draft of a drinking song 'The Root of the Boot' (Sam's 'Troll Poem' from The Fellowship of the Ring). This was performed at the Whitelock's Ale House, Turk's Head Yard in Leeds back in March.
Tolkien Society Seminar 2015
The Tolkien Society's Seminar was held in Leeds this year; this annual event hosted by the TS consisted of a range of papers under the theme 'One Hundred Years of Middle-earth'.
Plans are ongoing for the 2016 Seminar which again will be held in Leeds.
The scheduling of the Seminar in early July coincides with the International Medieval Congress
held annually at the University of Leeds.
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