Monday, October 14, 2002
Tom Shippet In Chicago - Xoanon @ 01:31 PST
Martha writes: Tom Shippey will be one of the featured Chicago Humanities Festival speakers on Saturday, 9 November 2002. Topic: Trees, Chainsaws, and the Vision of Paradise in J.R.R. Tolkien. Event description: "A scholar of Old English and Tolkien's contemporary, Shippey reminds us that beneath their popular, cinema-friendly exterior, his colleague's works amount to a serious meditation on Christian religion and pagan mythologies." Book sales and signing follow. 1-2 p.m.; Harold Washington College, 30 E. Lake St., Chicago. Tickets $15. Order tickets from the festival's Web site www.chfestival.org

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