Fighting the Long Defeat: Beauty and Nostalgia in Tolkien’s Sub-creation

A lecture on Tolkien’s view of beauty, nostalgia and hope by Prof. Eduardo Segura.

Eduardo Segura is a well-known Tolkien scholar, author of a biographical study on the Oxford professor and a volume based on his doctoral dissertation on Tolkien’s Poetics as related to The Lord of the Rings. He has translated several of Tolkien’s works into Spanish, including The Monsters and the Critics, The Fall of Arthur and Beowulf, as well as Thomas Shippey’s The Road to Middle-earth and John Garth’s Tolkien and the Great War. Eduardo Segura is also the author of several essays on the Inklings and has co-authored and edited a volume on the film version of The Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson.

The lecture will take place at 19:00 on Tuesday, 2th May, at the Grove Auditorium Magdalen College. Access to the College will be from the Longwall Street entrance, not from the Porter’s Lodge on High Street. Admission is free and open to both students and people from outside Oxford University.

Please note it is not necessary to bring your ticket to the event. The registration process is so we make sure we’re not oversubscribed.

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