The University of Glasgow is to honour Lord of The Rings author JRR Tolkien on the 70th anniversary of his visit to the campus to give a lecture.
In 1953, Tolkien, then Oxford University Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, arrived at the university to give a lecture on late 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - a key text in the Arthurian tradition featuring young King Arthur himself, the knight Sir Gawain, a mysterious green knight, and the sorceress Morgan le Fay.
With his popularity as a fantasy writer on the rise, 300 people attended the ticketed WP Ker Memorial Lecture. Dr Andoni Cossio, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, said: “As a schoolboy, Tolkien had a great affection for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poem, which even led to occasional recitations of certain passages for his friends.
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