Oxonmoot 2025 (part 1 - sights)

martina3683
Sep 9, 2025
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With the book out, I got an opportunity to present it at Oxonmoot 2025, which was held at St Anne’s College in Oxford. This was my first attendance at Oxonmoot ever, and it was a wonderful and kind of overwhelming (but in a positive sense) experience.

For practical purposes, I was accommodated on site of the event. After all, who wouldn’t want to experience living at a Oxford college dormitory? Here are pictures from the college, its dining hall, local cats, and my room.

The first day I took a town tour with D. Scott, who showed us some Tolkien related sights/sites, some of which I already knew, but some were new to me. Here are only a couple of the tour highlights, along with pictures I took on the day of my arrival (the evening ones). For those interested in more Tolkien related sights in Oxford, check out the article about my first travel there https://jrrtme.wixsite.com/jrrtolkiensme/post/tolkien-pilgrimage-itinerary

House where Tolkien spent the last years of his life, the accomodation being provided to him by Merton College.

In the university parks, there is a bench dedicated to Tolkien, courtesy of the Tolkien Society. And that’s the view from it.

Magdalen College, Cherwell river, and the Addison’s Walk at the college grounds where Tolkien, Lewis, and Dyson had a conversation that brought Lewis back to Christianity.

St Aloysius of Gonzaga church Tolkien used to attend.

And on the second day I took a countryside hike with Mike Percival, dressed as a real Hobbit. Mike showed us places that shaped Tolkien’s depiction of the Shire, and the walk, at places, truly felt like following Frodo, Sam, and Pippin across the Shire from Bagend to Buckland, when we had to wade through bushes, some of which indeed had thorns.