Taruithorn the Oxford Tolkien Society

The Society takes its name from J.R.R. Tolkien's Elvish name for Oxford, where he was both a student and later a Professor.

We meet to engage in a range of Tolkien orientated events as well as purely social ones. The Tolkien events range from serious,quite academic speaker meetings(with such notable speakers as Rayner Unwin C.B.E. and Professor Tom Shippey) through to the more relaxed seminars(with speakers from within our own members) Then there are the _very_ relaxed and humourous debates and finally the often farcical Comedy Drama evenings and "Whose Ring Is It Anyway?" Social events involve video evenings,trips to London to meet with other "smials" of the National Society, banquets and the famous punting trips in Trinity Term.

From October 1994 we will meet in Lecture Room 2, Christ Church College at 8.00pm on Friday evenings during Term. Changes in venue and/or time are advertised every Friday in Daily Information. Posters advertising major events are put up in most Colleges. The current Termcard is available on request to the Publicity Officer (see the committee list) or E-mail(a.mcmurry1@physics.ox.ac.uk) and is also available here.

The current committee is here.

There are also a few old termcards on the server:

• Hilary Term 1994
• Trinity Term 1994
• Michaelmas Term 1994

We were founded 5 years ago by people mainly from the Oxford Arthurian Society.

There is a page with all the poems from the Lord of the Rings. For middle-english scholars there is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight edited by Tolkien and Gordon. And there is now a Index of Tolkien's Verses.