Exploring Middle Earth: Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull on The Art of The Hobbit and Corey Olsen on Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Sunday, Nov. 18, 4:00 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Christina Scull
In The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30.00) scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull examine Tolkien's masterpiece chapter by chapter, offering expert insights into its evolution, structure, and meaning. Hammond and Scull frequently draw upon comments by Tolkien himself, made in letters to family, friends, and enthusiasts, in draft texts of The Lord of the Rings, and in works written in later years which amplify or illuminate characters and events in the story. Hammond and Scull, who are husband and wife, are the co-author or co-editors of numerous works by and about J.R.R. Tolkien.
Corey Olsen
A companion volume to one of the most widely read books of the 20th century, professor Corey Olsen's Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25.00) takes readers on an in-depth journey through The Hobbit chapter by chapter, revealing the stories within the story: the dark desires of dwarves and the sublime laughter of elves, the nature of evil and its hopelessness, the mystery of divine providence and human choice, and, most of all, the transformation within the life of Bilbo Baggins. President and founder of the Mythgard Institute, a new online teaching center for the study of Tolkien and other works of imaginative literature.
Wayne G. Hammond
In The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30.00) scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull examine Tolkien's masterpiece chapter by chapter, offering expert insights into its evolution, structure, and meaning. Hammond and Scull frequently draw upon comments by Tolkien himself, made in letters to family, friends, and enthusiasts, in draft texts of The Lord of the Rings, and in works written in later years which amplify or illuminate characters and events in the story. Hammond and Scull, who are husband and wife, are the co-author or co-editors of numerous works by and about J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
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