Schedule by area: Tolkien Studies

Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 8:00am to 9:30am (Torrey Pines 3) Session chair: Victoria L Holtz Wodzak

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Real Business of Bilbo; the Dreams of Conan: Sword and Sorcery, Epic Fantasy, and the Rhetoric of the Ordinary	Jason Ray Carney	Paper
Strange Bedfellows: Tolkien and Eddison	Peter Grybauskas	Paper
There Was a Merry Band of Men, A Gardener, an Invalid, and the Lords Who Loved Them So: The Portrayal of Soldier-Servant Relationships and Their Reflections of War	Alicia Fox-Lenz	Paper
Tolkien Underground: Reimagining World War I Bunkers and Tunnels	Victoria L Holtz Wodzak	Paper

Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 9:45am to 11:15am (Torrey Pines 3) Session chair: Brad Eden

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Dreamflower: Lothlorien in Middle-Earth Space-Time	Brian Walter	Paper
Tolkien and Pre-Vatican II Catholicism 101	Michael Wodzak	Paper
The ‘Third Spring’: a neglected thread of Tolkien scholarship	Brad Eden	Paper

Round table

Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 11:30am to 1:00pm (Torrey Pines 3) Session chair: Kristine Larsen

Presenters: Kristine Larsen, Brad Eden, Stephen Yandell, Robin Anne Reid

Friday, April 14, 2017 - 8:00am to 9:30am (Torrey Pines 3) Session chair: Mikhail Skoptsov

	Presenters	Presentation type
Making or Creating: Fans Transforming Orcs	Robin Anne Reid	Paper
Deconstructing Durin’s Day: Science in the Service of Fan-Scholars	Kristine Larsen	Paper
Lord of the Rings and Fans panel	Maggie Parke	Paper
The Hobbit Variations: Publication, Adaptation, and Fan Revision	Mikhail Skoptsov	Paper

Friday, April 14, 2017 - 9:45am to 11:15am (Torrey Pines 3) Session chair: Janice Bogstad

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Sacred Nature of Enchantment and Loss: Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit as an Ecotheology of Transformation	Kellianne H Matthews	Paper
Wood and Water, Stock and Stone: Rediscovering English Landscapes through Walking	Christopher Cameron	Paper
Visually Monstrous: Jackson’s Iconic Revisualizations of Hobbit Heroes and Villains	Janice Bogstad	Paper

Friday, April 14, 2017 - 11:30am to 1:00pm (Torrey Pines 3) Session chair: Sarah Coates

	Presenters	Presentation type
Whispers of a Tenth Walker: Lord of the Rings Fanfiction and Feminine / Feminist Interventions in Middle-Earth	Eva Wijman	Paper
Bagginshield: An Exploration of Portrayals of Romantic Relationships between Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield in Fanfiction	Sarah Coates	Paper