During the weekend of 2-4th October, Euromoot conference took place in Prague. Here are some pictures from the event. The talks and group photos: My talk on the comparison of Feanor and Melkor: On Saturday night, we went for a walk across the town, which ended in a restaurant. Sunday morning belonged to various funny activities, including a game of Tic-Tac-Dough. The moot attendees were divided into two teams competing against each other in 2 games. Our team won one of them.

The closing evening event was great, from a costume competition to all the amazing performances. Here you can see the Oxonmoot choir, Varda, Galadriel, Radagast, Éowyn, Mayor of Laketown’s wife, Hobbit Barbie, She-Orc, all crotchet dwarf, the Polar Bear and Father Christmas, Tar-Palantír and Elendil with the white tree, Sauron and his Nazgúl, and two Nazgúls’ wives. And here is the closing visit to Wolvercote cemetery And also my own obligatory visit at the Hollywell cemetery

Now pictures from the lectures. The first two are from Michael Drout’s talk. Some pictures from a table talk with Sarah Brown, a debate on "Why Fëanor was wrong", and from a game of Middle-earth pictionary. We also had a chance to watch a part of a new documentary about Verlyn Flieger, that people from Signum University prepared, and you can already preorder. #jrrtolkien #middleearth #oxonmoot #oxonmoot2026 #oxford #tolkienscholars #tolkiensociety

Again I got to come to and present at Oxonmoot this year. So here are the obligatory reports from the event :) Let’s start with the overview of the grounds, again at St Anne’s College. The art room and my artistic creations from there. The artists’ room The sellers’ room One of these rooms also included a diorama of the battle of Helm’s Deep And this hand-stitched Tree of Amalion flag. It’s maker had also a unique selfmade T-shirt. And another visitor had this lovely bag. A

This weekend I attended and presented at 2 conferences: in person at Willow Moot, which took place in Leuven, Belgium online at Westmoot, which took place in Kansas Here are some pictures from Willow Moot. I’m happy that I finally met in person lots of people, Tolkien fans and scholars, whom I’d already known online. The event ended in a fun quiz, which was quite challenging. Nonetheless, I still managed to score 44 points, which made me proud of myself. And here I’m sharing

Here is a recording of our annual Tolkien conference that took place on 27 March 2026, presenting the following lectures: Marek Jastrzębski: Symbolic Portals of Middle-earth: Two Complementary Movements of Living Tolkien’s Myth (Transmedia and Tourism) Racha Yamouna Frioukh: Mythopoesis and Cultural Memory: A Comparative Exploration of Tolkien's Middle-earth and Amazigh Oral Tradition Alexandra Filonenko: “…the fair elusive beauty that some call Celtic”: The Sovereignty God

Between 22 and 25 January 2026 I attended the Prague Tolkiencon, presenting there my book Cardinal Vices in Middle-earth . The following pictures were taken by Metaflora from the Hungarian society, all the rest were taken by me. As is the case with such conferences, there were many interesting events awaiting the visitors. You can see the program here . On Friday, I attended the program in the gym room - the opening of the con and concerts of bands Poetické hudební společenst

Friday and Saturday were full of interesting lectures... ...including my own book presentation on Saturday morning... Besides academic talks, there were also many opportunities for socialisation and meeting new people, such as the first timers reception and speed-moot. The entertainment strain of Oxonmoot consisted of a 1 Minute game, in which 4 leading figures of Tolkien scholarship and artistry - Dimitra Fimi, Sarah Brown, Brian Sibley, and Jay Johnstone - had to speak for

Interview with the editor of the book duology Theology and Tolkien (2023-2024). https://vimeo.com/1047524413 The books are available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Tolkien-Questions-Rhetoric-Testament/dp/1978712669 https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Tolkien-Constructive-Douglas-Estes/dp/1978712634 #jrrtolkien #middleearth #tolkienscholars #theology #theologyandtolkien #douglasestes

Listen to it here https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/fantasy-literature #jrrtolkien #middleearth #podcast #tolkienscholars

On the occasion of Tolkien Reading Day - the day when Tolkien fans all around the world commemorate the destruction of the One Ring, the...

Something for our Czech and Slovak fans. @starybral published the first issue of a new Tolkien fanzine at http://calantar.cz/ #jrrtolkien...