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Oxonmoot 2024

Hope Savaria

Saint Paul, MN, USA

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I love creating Tolkien-inspired art and listening to Tolkien-related podcasts (as well as media from other fandoms). I am a social worker, currently working in higher education. My partner and I have two kids, and we live in Saint Paul, MN.

10:00pm BST

Opening Ceremony 1- Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Meeting Strand)Elena Davison • Asli Johnston The Rings of Power Watch Party 0.1 Online Only (Meeting Strand)

8:30am BST

Disintegration of Bodies in Music: Orpheus and Eurydice’s Prosodic Doom Becoming Salvation in Lúthien’s Rescue of Beren 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Iman Negahdari • Ali Ghaderi

9:00am BST

War and Nature in Tolkien and Miyazaki 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Charlotte Brockway

9:35am BST

The Awkward Art: Tolkien and Pipe Smoking 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Nils Ivar Agøy

10:15am BST

Secondary Ecology, Tertiary World: Middle-earth's Ecology as Played by Aotearoa 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Rory Queripel

1:00pm BST

The Shaman of the Old Forest: Bombadil, Väinämöinen, and the Animistic Spirit 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Erik Jampa Andersson

1:35pm BST

“Eä!” and “Hey Dol!”, Conjuring Homelands in Middle-earth: from Songs of Power to Rhymes of Lore 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Clara Colin Saïdani

2:10pm BST

The Tale We’ve Fallen Into: Re-reading The Lord of the Rings, Re-reading Ourselves 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Tom Emanuel

2:50pm BST

Beastly Middle-earth 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Jay Johnstone

3:30pm BST

LGBTQ+ Second Breakfast: an inclusive hobbit gathering for tea 3 - Edoras (Discussions & Activities)Mercury Natis

4:00pm BST

Visions of Númenor: The Land of Gift as pictured by Alan Lee and Rings of Power 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Marie Bretagnolle

4:40pm BST

Between What is Written and What is Not Written: The Art of John Howe 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Brian Sibley

6:00pm BST

Online Game: Guess the Illustrations – Alan Lee 0.1 Online Only (Meeting Strand)Sultana Raza

9:00pm BST

Pub Quiz 7 - Dining Hall & Online (Webinar Strand)Mike Percival • Maggie Percival

11:00pm BST

Arda Marred and Climate Change: Ecological Anxiety and the End of the World 0 - Online only (Webinar Strand)Will Sherwood • Journee Cotton Online Game: Guess the Illustrations – Tolkien Illustrators 0.1 Online Only (Meeting Strand)Sultana Raza

12:30am BST

Exploring the Lord of the Rings in Immersive Audio 0 - Online only (Webinar Strand)Jordan Rannells

1:30am BST

Tolkien's Dragons: An Overview 0 - Online only (Webinar Strand)Romuald I Lakowski

2:30am BST

Evaluating Bad Theology and Making a Case for the Ethical Priority of Religious Diversity in Tolkien Studies 0 - Online only (Webinar Strand)Nick Polk

8:50am BST

Translating Tolkien for Finnish Audiences 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Onni Lampi

9:25am BST

All That Glitters is Gold and Other Nonsenses: Tolkien en español 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Mónica Sanz-Rodríguez

10:00am BST

Teaching Song and Holiness: An Exploration of the Mystic and Syncretic Elements of Tolkien’s Earliest Elvish Language Invention 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Andrew Higgins

10:35am BST

Magical Archetypes of the Wizards 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Stuart Whitehouse (they/them)

11:10am BST

Philia, Eros, Pragma: Reading Sam and Frodo through the Greek Loves 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Mercury Natis

11:30am BST

Tolkien Localised – Fun Facts of Translated Editions (Discussion/Drop-in) 3 - Edoras (Discussions & Activites) & Online (Meeting Strand)Orthmayr Flóra

3:00pm BST

Reading Session 3 - Edoras (Discussions & Activites) & Online (Meeting Strand)Rory Queripel

4:00pm BST

Escaping the Shadow of the Past: Building a New Vision of Middle-earth with ArdaCraft 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Jack Ashbridge

4:50pm BST

From Mushrooms to Man-flesh Via Maggots: Food and Consumption in Middle-earth 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Sara Brown

12:00am BST

The Conquering Power of Madness: A Postcolonial Approach to J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium 0 - Online only (Webinar Strand)Elizabeth Turello

12:30am BST

The Nameless Enemy: How Do You Solve a Problem Like “Mairon”? 0 - Online only (Webinar Strand)Cameron Bourquein

1:00am BST

The Science of the Silmarils 0 - Online only (Webinar Strand)Zhie

1:30am BST

The Evolution and Impact of Story: The Children of Hurin 0 - Online only (Webinar Strand)Ross Nunamaker

1:45am BST

Art Drop-in 0.1 Online Only (Meeting Strand)

8:30am BST

"She was not conquered": Of Morwen and Motherhood in Middle-earth 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Ilana Mushin

9:00am BST

The Lost Children of Middle-earth 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Lauren Brand

9:30am BST

Bilbo’s Return and the Tichborne Affair 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Murray Smith

10:00am BST

Melkor and the Magus 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Jessica Yates

10:30am BST

Beyond the Romantic Spirit: Tolkien’s Voyage of Eärendil from Wandering to Heralding 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Benedetto Ardini

11:00am BST

"I have lost myself" - Visualising Liminality from ‘The Sea Bell’ to The Silmarillion 1 - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre & Online (Webinar Strand)Lynn Forest-Hill

2:00pm BST

Enyalië 9 - Wolvercote Cemetery & Online (Webinar Strand)Elena Davison • Asli Johnston • Shaun Gunner

2:30pm BST

"Dead Orcs" Breakout Rooms 0.1 Online Only (Meeting Strand)