Book Launch of Prof. Nick Groom (FAH-DENG): ‘Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today’

Members of UM are cordially invited to the launch of Prof. Groom’s acclaimed new book, Twenty-First-Century Tolkien. This will take place at the Portuguese Bookshop (Livraria Portuguesa) at 6pm on Saturday 25 March. Prof. Groom will be introduced by Prof. Andrew Moody (Head of English, UM); Prof. Groom will give an introductory talk and a short reading from the book, and this will be followed by an audience Q&A and a reception. Copies of the book will available at the event.

Twenty-First-Century Tolkien was published late last year and has already been recorded as an audiobook, available on audible.com. A second updated paperback edition and an American edition will be published in September 2023, and there are also foreign-language translations in preparation. The book has been reviewed as ‘Fascinating…. Wonderfully exhilarating’, while another reviewer has noted that ‘Each chapter displays a mastery of both the works in question – whether books or adaptations – and of the vast corpus of Tolkien scholarship … narratives of literary production or of Hollywood bureaucratic processes rarely come as absorbing as Groom’s’. All who enjoy The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or The Rings of Power are welcome to attend.