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on 29 January 1970, where the name of the new society was discussed and the first committee was appointed. A constitution was considered at the first general meeting of the Tolkien Society on 20 November 1970 at UCL, but was ultimately rejected. The Tolkien Society did not become a legal entity until
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As a family, we’ve always been involved with The Tolkien Society and when I was a kid they used to come up to our small farm in Wales for Summer Moots. They’d dress up as characters, camp in the field, sword fight, let off homemade fireworks and have huge campfires. The first awareness of the legacy
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is held over a weekend in April. Although the Annual General Meeting is the main aspect of the event, the weekend also includes the semi-formal Annual Dinner followed by a talk from a guest speaker. As the AGM and Springmoot changes location each year, it is an opportunity for members to spend the
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published on 7 November which ran "Tolkien Society of Britain — write Belladonna Took , c/o Chapman, 21 Harrington House, Stanhope St. London NW1". Since this would have hit news-stands a day before publication, the Tolkien Society's informal beginning has been placed at Thursday 6 November 1969.
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is held on Tolkien's birthday on 3 January. The Society asks fans across the world to raise a toast to "The Professor" at 9pm their local time. Many local groups (or "smials") hold their own Birthday Toast events. In recent years the event has become social media orientated, with fans sharing
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The Tolkien Society Awards were established in 2014 to "recognise excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom". The awards are held annually and are announced at the Annual Dinner during the Society's AGM and Springmoot weekend. Past winners include authors
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is held on the anniversary of the downfall of Sauron on 25 March. It aims to promote the reading of Tolkien based around a particular theme chosen each year by the Tolkien Society committee. The idea was first proposed to the Society by Sean Kirst, a journalist at the
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The Tolkien Society has also published a number of one-off publications, including the proceedings of the 1992 and 2005 conferences. Its "Peter Roe" series of books are published irregularly, and tend to print proceedings of seminars and talks by guest speakers.
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An AGM has been held each year since 1972, and since 1973 has featured a talk from a guest speaker. It is one of the three main annual Tolkien Society events, the largest and most popular being "Oxonmoot". In the December 1973 issue of the fanzine
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The Tolkien Society Archive maintains a large number of Tolkien books and journals together with a collection of ephemera such as press clippings and responses (both commercial and creative) to Tolkien which might not otherwise be preserved.
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on behalf of the Tolkien Society at the suggestion of Joy Hill, Tolkien's secretary during the 1960s. On 1 May 1970 she wrote Tolkien a letter introducing the Society and its aims. When it was announced that Tolkien had been awarded a
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The Tolkien to the World programme raises funds to send Tolkien books to schools and libraries across the world. Its aim is "to work towards a situation where everyone in the world has access to Tolkien’s principal works of fiction".
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in the New Year's Honours, the Society sent Tolkien a telegram on his eightieth birthday on 3 January 1972, a gift of tobacco in a green china jar, and a congratulatory note; on 6 February, he replied thanking the Society.
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announced "if not quite the birth, at least the hopeful conception of a Tolkien Society of Britain". This was supplemented by a personal column by Chapman in the
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The Tolkien Society has organized major conferences to celebrate significant Tolkienian anniversaries. "The J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference" at
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after three issues (the first had been numbered 0, and it continued independently until issue number 7). This new publication changed its name to
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was the bulletin of the Linguistic Fellowship of The Tolkien Society between 1980 and 1995, running for forty-nine issues before being wound up.
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college since 1991. With around 200 attendees, it features academic lectures, quizzes, costuming, and closes with a memorial service called
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a constitution was finally ratified on 15 January 1972. It later obtained charitable status in England and Wales on 7 July 1977.
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It began informally in 1969, and held its inaugural meeting in 1970. It holds five annual events, namely a Birthday Toast, a
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Local groups affiliated to the Tolkien Society are known as "smials", the name used for hobbit-holes in
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The Tolkien Society gradually took shape over the following years. December 1969 saw the publication of
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with an accompanying plaque and the planting of two trees representing Telperion and Laurelin from
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Later that year, on 27 June, Chapman met Tolkien at a sherry party hosted by Tolkien's publishers,
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in October 1970. This was conceived as a quarterly publication, and the first issue was joined by
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is a day-long event held over the summer, consisting of a series of papers on a selected theme.
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Educational charity and literary society devoted to the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien
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4 Highfield Road in Birmingham, Tolkien's home between January 1910 and Autumn 1911.
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Vera Chapman and Jessica Yates, then secretary of the Tolkien Society and editor of
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devoted to the study and promotion of the life and works of the author and academic
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The "inaugural" meeting of the Tolkien Society was hosted by the Hobbit Society of
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The Plough and Harrow Hotel in Birmingham, where Tolkien stayed with his new wife
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announced a partnership to promote Sarehole Mill and its connection to Tolkien.
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with the second issue, seemingly for no particular reason. It, together with
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Membership of the Tolkien Society includes a subscription to the bulletin
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The 1992 Centenary Conference, organized by the Tolkien Society and the
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The Tolkien Society currently organizes five events on an annual basis:
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pictures of themselves raising a toast to Tolkien on platforms such as
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Jonathan Simons, third chairman of the Tolkien Society at Oxonmoot 1979
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Barella, Cecilia (2013) . "Tolkien Scholarship: Institutions". In
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J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
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on 3 June 1916 shortly before leaving for war service in France.
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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
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at places of significance in Tolkien's life. These include:
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rest of the weekend exploring local attraction sites.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien Reading Day
Oxonmoot
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the Eagle and Child
Oxonmoot
fanzine
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Vera Chapman
New Statesman
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George Street
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The Lord of the Rings
Aston University
The Hobbit
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