J R R Tolkien Collection - Marquette University Libraries

09/21/2026

Another Swiss Tolkien Conference is being planned for 2027. We've been asked to publicize it. The 2026 conference focused on Leadership in Middle-earth; next year's concerns Maps & Landscapes. It has an impressive lineup of speakers and includes online participation!

This is the official website of the one and only original Tolkien Conference Switzerland organized by the HSLU Institute of Communication and Marketing, the University of Lausanne, and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

09/18/2026

A new dataset has been published on Marquette's Institutional Repository that indexes Tolkien fanzines, mostly from 1969 through the wake of The Silmarillion's publication. We hope it opens these zines up and gives scholars a better sense of what is in them. Thank you to Judy Mitchell for providing the funding that made this dataset possible. Download and enjoy!

This dataset reveals the heretofore hidden contents of fan magazines (fanzines) related to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien that were created from 1969 through the publication of Tolkien’s The Silmarillion in 1977. It supplements the earlier Tolkien Fandom Review by S. Gary Hunnewell that discussed fan...

02/24/2026

This appears to be an excellent conference with an impressive group of speakers. For those who cannot travel, it is possible to attend on Zoom!