Tom Shippey, a leading authority on J.R.R. Tolkien, science fiction and fantasy, will present his talk on “Tolkien, Peter Jackson, Palantirs, and Boethius” this Thursday, February 10th at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Professor Shippey has published two books on Tolkien, as well as several books and many articles on medieval topics. He acted as consultant to the Jackson movies on pronouncing the many names in many languages, and features extensively on the backup disks of all three extended-version movie DVDs. The evening lecture is free and open to the public.

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