
Fantasy Literature
Fantasy Literature has emerged as one of the most important genres over the past few decades and now enjoys extraordinary levels of popularity. The impact of Tolkien’s Middle-earth works and the serialisation of George Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’ books has moved these and their contemporaries into mainstream culture. As the popularity grows so does interest in the roots of fantasy, the main writers and themes, and how to approach these texts.
Oxford is a natural home to fantasy literature with those who worked or studied here having written so many famous and influential texts (e.g. Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson), C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones, Alan Garner, and Philip Pullman to name but a few) – leading to the notion of an ‘Oxford School of Fantasy’. These lectures, short talks, and interviews seek to take listeners into these works and these writers and beyond.
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[Artwork by Minjie Su.]
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- A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
- The authors and styles of 'The Lord of the Rings'
- J. R. R. Tolkien and G. B. Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
- Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' as a Modern Book
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist
- Tolkien and Beowulf
- A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
- Tolkien and the Classics
- Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the climax of 'The Lord of the Rings'
- How to write 'The Lord of the Rings'
- Fantasy Creatures
- A Conversation with Katherine Langrish
- Faith in fantasy literature
- Brian McClellan
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- A Walk around C. S. Lewis's Oxford
- William Morris and E. R. Eddison Collections at the Bodleian
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