Tolkien Society Seminar in June

External Since: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 372

I've managed to get leave to attend the Tolkien Society seminar at the
end of June in London. I suppose that it will not surprise very many
that I've made it a priority to attend this year, when the subject is
'Freedom, Fate and Choice in Middle-earth' Wink

<http://www.tolkiensociety.org/seminar/index.html>

Does anyone else from the newsgroups have plans to attend (Christopher
Kreuzer, obviously, but others)?

This means that I will be in London from Friday afternoon the 27th of
June and until Sunday afternoon, and based on the very positive
experience I had meeting up with Christopher a couple of years ago, I
thought it'd be great to meet up for a drink or just a chat, if
somebody's in the neighbourhood.

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External Since: May 14, 2008 Posts: 23

Troels Forchhammer wrote:

> I've managed to get leave to attend the Tolkien Society seminar

> Does anyone else from the newsgroups have plans to attend

I sure wish I could go but I am stranded here in Canada on
the West Coast -- the furthest opposite strand of the Uttermost West,
as it were. In fact you can't hardly be any more uttermost around here
without getting your feet wet.

Still, I have a Ring -- assuredly not one of the Great Rings, but
an Engineer's Iron Ring; a mere essay in the ring-making craft.
If it gives me power according to my stature then my stature must
be fairly meager.

For instance if I, wearing this Ring were to close my eyes and visualize
the Tolkien Society Seminar and bump my heels together three times --
just about nothing would happen. So if there's magic in this Ring
I haven't found the way to unleash it, and Gandalf has not been by
lately to advise me. Not only that, if I were to heat it up in
an ordinary Hobbit's fireplace and drop it into my hand, the only
firey letter in sight would be an "O"-shaped brand on my palm.

So unless some Other Power is at work, regrettably from this place
and time it looks very unlikely that I would be able to join you
and Mr. Kreuzer.

SQ