Literature Matters: Tolkien, Middle-Earth, and the Lost Inheritance of England
Mark Doersken is the speaker in this Literature Matters: Literature in the Community Series
Event
Date: Wednesday, March 29
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Grace-Westminster United Church Social Hall
505 10th Street East, Saskatoon, SK
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of English.
About this event
Speaker Mark Doersken introduces J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, the modern inheritor of Anglo-Saxon mythology, and examines how in the 20th century Tolkien, in works such as the Silmarillion, sought to engage with the lost tales of pre-Conquest England and in the process changed the modern fantasy landscape. This talk is part of Literature Matters: Literature in the Community Series.
Info: english.department@usask.ca | 306-966-1268
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