Here are the 24 brilliant Christmas picturebooks I tweeted this December as part of my #PicturebookAdventCalendar:
Revisiting Race in Tolkien’s Legendarium: Constructing Cultures and Ideologies in an Imaginary World
* This lecture was delivered as a keynote in 2012 at the Politics of Contemporary Fantasy conference at the University of Wurzburg, Germany. It revisits main ideas I explored in my 2008 book, Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History, and adds some…
Tolkien Sessions at IMC Leeds, July 2019
I am very pleased to announce that all five sessions on J.R.R. Tolkien I proposed for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds 2019 have been accepted! This will be the 5th consecutive year of papers on J.R.R. Tolkien at IMC…
Sailing to the West: The Fall of Arthur, Beowulf, and Tol Eressea (Keynote Lecture for Oxonmoot 2017)
The last few years have seen the publication of two of Tolkien’s works that scholars and serious fans have known about for a very long time: Tolkien’s unfinished alliterative poem The Fall of Arthur[i] and Tolkien’s prose translation of Beowulf…
Tolkien TV interview for TRT World
Yesterday I gave a brief interview on J.R.R. Tolkien for the Turkish TV channel TRT World. It’s now available on YouTube and can be accessed here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=90OMuDIbliA
CFP: Tolkien Sessions at IMC Leeds 2019
After six wonderful Tolkien sessions at Leeds 2018 (you can read a round-up of all paper sessions here: https://dimitrafimi.org/tolkien-at-imc-leeds-2018-round-up/) it’s now time to start preparing for Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2019 (the IMC is scheduled for 1-4 July 2019). Here…
Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2018 – round-up
I am now back from Leeds, after an excellent Tolkien Society Seminar, and an outstanding series of papers and a roundtable discussion on Tolkien at the International Medieval Congress 2018. Here’s a quick overview of all papers presented at the IMC,…
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy in the 2018 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists!
I have just found out that my latest monograph, Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), has been shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies! The Mythopoeic Awards are divided into four categories, two for fiction, and…
Forthcoming talks and lectures: Glasgow, Kalamazoo, Essex, Oxford and North Wales
The next few months are going to be a bit hectic! If you are attending any of the conferences or events below, don’t hesitate to come and say hello! 26-27 April – Keynote for GIFCon (Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations) 2018: ‘In the…
New journal article: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation
Last month I had a new journal article published in the Open Access Journal of Tolkien Research: Fimi, D. (2018) ‘Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and Early 20th-Century Radical Linguistic Experimentation’, Journal of Tolkien Research, 5(1), pp.…