[Northkeep] This might interest some of you..........

[Stephanie Drake]

Passed on by our friends in the Province of Mooneschadowe.

Mercedes

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> Tom Shippey, the  Anglo-Saxonist and Tolkien scholar who appeared in
> interviews on the DVD's of the Lord of the Rings movies, will be in
> Stillwater next week.  He is an enormously witty and entertaining
> speaker. He is into film, science fiction/fantasy, Anglo-Saxon, and the
> Middle Ages --- so he's our kind of guy.
> 
> An interesting note about how his life has oddly mirrored Tolkien's,
> from his web page at Saint Louis University:
> "Dr. Shippey followed in Tolkien's footsteps as schoolboy (both
> attended King Edward's School, Birmingham), as rugby player (both
> played for Old Edwardians), as Oxford teacher (Dr. Shippey taught Old
> English for seven years at St. John's College, just overlapping with
> Tolkien's last years of retirement), and as Professor of English
> Language at Leeds (where he inherited Tolkien's chair and syllabus)."
> 
> I'm picking him up at the airport on Wednesday and he'll be giving
> talks Wednesday and Thursday. The talks that will be free and open to
> the public are:
> 
> Wednesday, Feb. 15:
> 7:00 p.m., 313 Classroom Building, OSU Stillwater campus
> "Palantirs and Providence: Tolkien's Books and Jackson's Movies"
> 
> Thursday, February 16: 
> 4:00 p.m., Student Union Theater, OSU Stillwater campus
> "Hollywood and the Middle Ages, especially King Arthur"
> 
>