Calendar of upcoming events
| Date | Type | Loc |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 28- Mar 30 |
Event | USA |
| Tolkien by Ron Reed Open Window Theatre, 5300 S. Robert Trail, Inver Grove Heights, MN 5507 | ||
| Mar 7-9 | Event | Germany |
| Lure of Middle-earth 2025 — 25th Anniversary - guest Ted Nasmith Jugendherberge Burg Stahleck Bacharach, Bacharach | ||
| Mar 7 | Event | UK |
| Carl Phelpstead (University of Cardiff) ‘'Alight Here for Middle-earth!': Tolkien, Place, and the Past’ Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF | ||
| Mar 7 | Event | Italy |
| Tolkien. Uomo, Professore, Autore - Until 31st July 2025 Palazzo della Cultura, Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 121, Catania | ||
| Mar 8 | Event | USA/Online |
| Holy Moot ‘Joy Beyond the Walls of the World’ A day conference on Tolkien & Theology The Cathedral Church os St. Luke & St. Paul, Charleston, SC | ||
| Mar 13 | New Release | UK |
| Revised and Expanded - The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien UK paperback | ||
| Mar 14 | Event | UK |
| Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg) ‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien's Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’ Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF | ||
| Mar 14 | New Release | Online |
| VARIATIONS AND EPISODES for solo piano by Paul Corfield Godfrey | ||
| Mar 15 | Event | USA |
| SoCal Moot - ‘The Same Tale Still’: The Intersection of Personal Experience With History and Storytelling Carlsbad City Library, 1775 Dove Lane Carlsbad, CA 92011 | ||
| Mar 15 | Event | Switzerland/Online |
| Environmentalism in Tolkien’s World: Ecocritical perspectives on Middle-earth S. Bolli, Mülihaldenstrasse, 1 8885 | ||
| Mar 21 | Event | France |
| "Aubusson Tisse Tolkien" exhibition Collège des Bernardins, 20 Rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris - Finishes on May 18 2025 | ||
| Mar 21 | Event | USA |
| The J.R.R. Tolkien Manuscripts: Public Showings 2025 Raynor Library 1355 W. Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53233 | ||
| Mar 24 | Event | USA |
| Making I = Eye: How the One Ring Works in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' O'Leary LIbrary, 61 Wilder St, Lowell, MA 01854 | ||
| Mar 25 | Event | Online |
| Tolkien Reading Day | ||
| Mar 25 | Event | UK |
| The Magic of Middle-Earth running until 14th June 2025 Shire Hall Museum, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1UY | ||
| Mar 25 | Event | Australia |
| The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale Crown Perth, Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA 6100 | ||
| Mar 27 | New Release | UK |
| Smith of Wootton Major UK Paperback | ||
| Mar 28-29 | Event | UK |
| Edinburgh Rare Book Fair 2025 Intercontinental The George Hotel, George Street, Edinburgh | ||
| Apr 1 | New Release | USA |
| Painting Wonder: How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| Apr 2 | Event | USA |
| The Hobbit April 2 – May 25, 2025 40 N. 2nd Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 | ||
| Apr 5 | Event | USA/Online |
| Tolkien and War! is the theme of the 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont conference University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 | ||
| Apr 5 | Event | USA |
| TexMoot 2005 - Stagnation versus Adaptation: Toxic Traditionalism Hampton Inn & Suites Houston Heights I-10, 5820 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas, 77007 | ||
| Apr 5 | Event | USA |
| MANHATTAN RARE BOOK & FINE PRESS FAIR St. Vincent Ferrer, 869 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10065 | ||
| Apr 12 | Event | Australia |
| Writers Revealed Treasures from the British Library and the National Portrait Gallery HOTA, 135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217 (ends August 3rd 2025) | ||
| Apr 16-19 | Event | USA |
| Tolkien Studies Area, PCA, Program 2025 Marriott New Orleans, 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 | ||
| Apr 24 | New Release | UK |
| Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set | ||
| Apr 25-27 | Event | UK/Online |
| Tolkien Society AGM and Springmoot 2025 Leonardo Hotel Cardiff, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3UD | ||
| Apr 26 | Event | Belgium/Online |
| WillowMoot 2025 - How Culture Influences Our Creation and Interpretation of Fiction Sint-Michielsstraat 2/4, 3000 Leuven | ||
| Apr 26 | Event | UK |
| Tolkien on Dragons The Story Museum, 42 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP | ||
| Apr 26 | Event | Australia |
| The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale Comedy Theatre, Melbourne | ||
| May 7-9 | Event | Online |
| GIFCon 2025 University of Glasgow | ||
| May 8-10 | Event | USA |
| The 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University Kalamazoo MI 49008-5200 | ||
| May 8 | Event | Sweden |
| Creating Fantastical Worlds: Tolkien and the Kalevala Malmö University, Scylla, SC2-314, Nordenskiöldsgatan 6 | ||
| May 8 | New Release | UK |
| The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (paperback) | ||
| May 9-11 | Event | USA |
| Tolkien Society WestMoot National WWI Museum and Memorial 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO 64108 | ||
| May 15-18 | Event | UK |
| Firsts London Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London, SW3 4RY | ||
| May 31 | Event | USA/Online |
| MountainMoot - Tolkien and the Green: The Environment of Middle-earth 9445 E Dry Creek Road Centennial, CO 80112 | ||
| Jun 3 | New Release | USA/UK |
| The War for Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945 Joseph Loconte | ||
| Jun 10 | New Release | USA |
| Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set | ||
| Jun 12-15 | Event | Germany |
| Tolkien Tage – Geldern Eichental Pont Bruchweg 58 – 64 47608 Geldern | ||
| Jun 19-22 | Event | USA |
| Mythmoot XII Drawn to the Edge National Conference Center, 18980 Upper Belmont Pl, Leesburg, VA 20176 | ||
| Jun 28 | Event | Online |
| Intersectional Seminar Concerning Austen and Tolkien Bree Crossroads | ||
| Jun 30 | New Release | UK |
| Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation | ||
| Jul 4 | Event | Australia |
| ‘Lord Of The Rings’ - A Musical Tale HOTA, 135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217 | ||
| Jul 5-6 | Event | Online |
| Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 – Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments | ||
| Jul 7-10 | Event | UK |
| International Medieval Congress 2025 - 'Worlds of Learning' University of Leeds, Leeds | ||
| Jul 11-13 | Event | Italy |
| Oralità e scrittura nella Terra di Mezzo. Tradizioni della voce, trasmissioni manoscritte e interpretazioni del Legendarium tolkieniano Castelli Romani | ||
| Jul 14-19 | Event | UK |
| Walking and Writing in the Shires Northmoor Road, Oxford | ||
| Jul 17-20 | Event | Germany |
| Die Tolkien Thing 2025 Rittergut Lützensömmern | ||
| Jul 17 | New Release | UK |
| Tolkien Calendar 2026: The Great Tales of Middle-earth (UK) | ||
| Jul 19 | Event | USA/Online |
| Mereth Aderthad 2025 South Burlington Library Community Room, Burlington, Vermont | ||
| Jul 21 | New Release | UK |
| Tree and Leaf: Including MYTHOPOEIA paperback | ||
| Jul 29 | Media | Online |
| Tales of the Shire | ||
| Jul 31 | Event | USA |
| New York Tolkien Conference Baruch College | One Bernard Baruch Way 55 Lexington Avenue (at 24th Street) | New York, NY 10010 | ||
| Aug 2-3 | Event | Online |
| Online MidSummer Seminar 2025 (Mythopoeic Society) Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the publication of Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| Aug 12 | New Release | USA |
| Tolkien Calendar 2026: The Great Tales of Middle-earth (USA) | ||
| Aug 12 | Event | Singapore |
| ‘Lord Of The Rings’ - A Musical Tale Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands | ||
| Aug 19 | New Release | USA |
| Great Tales of Middle-earth Box Set: The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin | ||
| Sep 4-7 | Event | UK/Online |
| Tolkien Society Oxonmoot St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford | ||
| Sep 12-13 | Event | UK |
| York Book Fair Knavesmire, Suite, York Racecourse, YO23 1EX | ||
| Sep 12-14 | Event | Germany |
| „Jenseits von Elbisch: Konstruierte Sprachen in phantastischen Welten“ The Phantastische Bibliotek (Library of the Fantastic) in Wetzlar in cooperation with the German Inklings Society | ||
| Sep 13-14 | Event | UK |
| Middle-earth Festival Festival field, Norton Lane, Wythall B47 6HA | ||
| Sep 18 | New Release | UK/USA |
| Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc, by Joel Merriner | ||
| Sep 19 | Event | USA |
| The J.R.R. Tolkien Manuscripts: Public Showings 2025 Raynor Library 1355 W. Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53233 | ||
| Oct 4-11 | Event | UK |
| ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Musical Theatre Royal Plymouth, Royal Parade, Plymouth, PL1 2TR | ||
| Oct 12-19 | Event | UK |
| Imagining Middle-earth: A Journey Through Tolkien’s England with Michael Drout | ||
| Oct 14 | New Release | USA |
| The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by Alan Lee Box Set: Illustrated by Alan Lee | ||
| Oct 20 | Event | UK |
| The Return of the King 70th Anniversary of Publication | ||
| Oct 30- Nov 2 |
Event | UK |
| World Fantasy Convention 2025 Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole, Kings Rd, Brighton, BN1 2FU | ||
| Oct 31- Nov 2 |
Event | Germany/Online |
| 21st DTG Tolkien Seminar - Tolkien's Works on the Book Market Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Saarstr. 21 55122 Mainz | ||
| Dec 2 | New Release | UK |
| The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation | ||
| Dec 4 | Event | Online |
| The Pleasure of the Perilous Woods: Byron’s Literary and Cultural Legacies in Tolkien’s Middle Earth Will Sherwood - The Byron Society | ||
| Date | Type | Loc |
| May 14-16 | Event | USA |
| The 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University Kalamazoo MI 49008-5200 | ||
| May 27 | Event | Online |
| 20th Anniversary of the Tolkien Collector's Guide TBC | ||
| Date | Type | Loc |
| May 13-15 | Event | USA |
| The 62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University Kalamazoo MI 49008-5200 | ||
Recent Past Events
| Date | Type | Loc |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 27- Mar 2 |
Event | Online |
| Firsts Online Virtual Bookfair | ||
| Mar 1 | Event | USA |
| Aragorn's Birthday - Lord of the Rings Party! Serpentine Cider & Smokehouse 8665 Miralani Drive #Suite 100 San Diego, CA 92126 | ||
| Feb 28 | New Release | UK |
| Proceedings of the Tolkien 2019 Conference (Paperback and eBook) | ||
All past events
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