[Loch-Ruadh] Tolkien lecture in McKinney

[alric & Fiona]

I think we need to get a whole group together to go to this one!!

Fiona

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Sikes" <tdsikes at prodigy.net>
To: "Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA, Inc."
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:07 AM
Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] Tolkien lecture in McKinney


> Cross posted from Steppes list.
>
> Greetings everyone!
>
>    I know I have not said much or been to visit in a
> while but I
>  thought the
> following might be of interest to some here (and
> please feel free to
>  forward
> to other area lists, especially Steppes).
>
>    In October, my wife, Jennifer, is giving a free
> talk on Tolkien as a
> gateway to medieval studies.  For those who have not
> met her and did
>  not
> know, Jennifer spent a summer a few years ago as part
> of an NEH grant
> studying Tolkien with some of the top Tolkien scholars
> in the world.
>   She
> also recently completed her MA in English Literature
> with a focus on
> Anglo-Saxon and Medieval studies.  In addition to that
> she has been
>  teaching
> her AP British Literature course at her high school
> for five years now
>  using
> Lord of the Rings as the comparative basis for
> instruction, in
>  particular
> when doing _Beowulf_.
>
>    Anyway, here is the information:
>
>
> Event: Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: Gateway to
> Medieval Times (public
> lecture)
> Speaker: Jennifer Culver, M.A.
> Where: Dulaney Room of the McKinney Memorial Public
> Library
> When: Saturday, October 20, 2007, 2 PM
> Admission: Free
>
> Sincerely
> Rich/Cyniric
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