Oxonmoot 2025 (part 3 - all the rest)

The Oxonmoot also has a room for artists to show and sell their work, another one for buying books, and one where you can create your own art. This is how it looks:

Selling all the copies of my book I had with me, naturally I spent all the money on buying some other books. Here is my haul:

And I painted this thing, featuring Bilbo hiding from Lobelia.

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In the little free time I had, I stopped by the Weston Library and their shop, which also offers a wide selection of Tolkien-themes objects.

...and at the Holywell Cemetery to visit the graves of Hugo Dyson and Charles Williams. I also discovered that Kenneth Grahame, the author of Wind in the Willows, is buried there too.

As usual, Oxonmoot ended with a group visit to Wolvercote Cemetery, primarily to hold a remembrance ceremony on Tolkien’s grave, but I also stopped by the graves of his children John and Priscilla, Tolkien’s biographer Humphrey Carpenter, and Tolkien scholar Stradford Caldecott who are buried there too.

But the biggest personal highlights for me were finally meeting in person the renown Tolkien scholar Dimitry Fimi, as well as my so-far-online friend Mina, who established the online smial for Tolkien Society members from central and eastern Europe, the Easterlings, and her husband, the new CEO of Tolkien Society, Sgaun Gunner.

The official recordings of the lectures are available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoyx2jXs6Le9PKf9M7_YAnR0UhxX20akT

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