The Tolkien Society

The Tolkien Society
Established6 November 1969 (1969-11-06)
FounderVera Chapman
Legal statusEducational charity
FocusEducation
Location
  • United Kingdom
Region served
Global
President
J. R. R. Tolkien (in perpetuo)
Vice-President
Priscilla Tolkien
Chair
Shaun Gunner
AffiliationsAlliance of Literary Societies
Websitewww.tolkiensociety.org

The Tolkien Society is an educational charity and literary society devoted to the study and promotion of the life and works of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien.[1][2]

It began informally in 1969, and held its inaugural meeting in 1970. It holds five annual events, namely a Birthday Toast, a Tolkien Reading Day, an AGM and Springmoot, a Seminar, and the Oxonmoot conference-and-convention.

The society publishes a bulletin named Amon Hen, and a peer-reviewed journal, Mallorn. It has local groups called "smials", one of which, the Cambridge Tolkien Society, publishes the open access journal Anor.

  1. ^ Scull, Christina; Hammond, Wayne G. (2006). The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. Vol. Reader's Guide. London: HarperCollins. p. 287. ISBN 0-00-714918-2.
  2. ^ Barella, Cecilia (2013) [2007]. "Tolkien Scholarship: Institutions". In Drout, Michael D. C. (ed.). J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. Routledge. p. 658. ISBN 978-0-415-86511-1.

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