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( There are lots more photos behind the cut )

Three good things for Tuesday:
- I have read "My family and other animals", which

adaese bought for me in Oxford
- people keep liking my photographs :-)
- I have sold two books.

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We are back home;

adaese is having a nap, and I am under a cat.

In London, I went to St James's Street, Jermyn Street, Picadilly, Northwood Hills, the British Library, the Palace of Westminster, and the station with the bear; and

adaese skipped the first three in favour of St Mary's Hospital.

In Oxford, St Michael's Street, Turl Street, Christ Church Meadow, Christ Church SCR and Hall, Broad Street, the OUMNH, the Pitt-Rivers museum; and

adaese paid a visit to the English Faculty.

Photos will follow, when I can move.

A pink dragon.
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And in text form: http://adaese.livejournal.com/29471.html

We made the BBC news :-)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-15038836

ETA: And the Oxfordshire local news (well just!)
http://oxfordshirelocalnews.co.uk/2011/09/24/tolkien-fans-hold-annual-oxonmoot/

Facebook sorry over face tagging launch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13693791

Return Of The Ring to celebrate Tolkien and 75 years of The Hobbit in 2012
http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/return-of-the-ring-to-celebratetolkien-and-75-years-of-the-hobbit-in-2012/

The Art of The Hobbit finished
http://wayneandchristina.wordpress.com/

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, in five volumes
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982761007/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=boingboing0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217153&creative=399349&creativeASIN=0982761007

3 Foot Long, 10,000 Piece Lego Sandcrawler from Star Wars
http://craziestgadgets.com/2011/06/07/3-foot-long-10000-piece-lego-sandcrawler-from-star-wars/

Harry Potter stolen from Woodstock!
http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/hsabingdonnews/9068517.Prison_for_Harry_Potter_book_thief/

Michael Wilkes on Sarehole
http://michaelwilkesblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/middle-earth-weekend-2011.html

Top universities a ‘breeding ground’ for Tories, warn Islamic groups
http://newsthump.com/2011/06/07/top-universities-a-breeding-ground-for-tories-warn-islamic-groups/

If ever you need a really comprehensive "title" drop-down
http://fm.schmoller.net/2010/01/if-ever-you-need-a-really-comprehensive-title-drop-down.html

We're back from Oxford.

"On the whole, Tolkien was a dab hand with names (and a lecturer friend assures me this is because he was so terribly embarrassed about his own — indeed, Gollum’s now infamous postural shenanigans owe their origin to Tolkien’s frequent pacing around his Oxford study room cursing his ancestors for not being Smiths or O Donovonovons)"
http://abysswinksback.blogspot.com/2011/02/importance-of-names-in-fantasy.html

Also -

"New owners will be bound by an unusual sale clause – they will have to lock the cemetery gates each night to keep residents including Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkein safe."
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/8846849.Council_puts_buildings_up_for_sale/?ref=rss

"An English translation of The Last Ring-Bearer has taken off among Middle-Earth lovers but incurred the disapproval of Tolkien's publisher"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/08/lord-of-the-rings-reworking-tolkien-estate

Also:
"When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" - interview write-up -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/04/michael-moorcock-hari-kunzru

And a full transcript -
http://harikunzru.com/archive/interview-michael-moorcock-2010

"I was pretty confused after walking around Oxford for most of the day. My friends and I kept passing colleges and buildings that were part of the university but where was the actual main campus?"
http://www.glampacker.com/2011/02/5-things-to-do-in-oxford-on-a-day-trip/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-12264569

adaese would no doubt blame Oriel ...

Last year, we went to Oxonmoot, the Tolkien Society's annual get-together in Oxford. This is a long-standing annual fixture for us; this year was my seventeenth in a row, and

adaese's thirty-second. This year - as last year, and in 1997 - it was in Lady Margaret Hall.

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"Oxford’s Eagle and Child pub is to undergo a major facelift as part of a scheme to renovate building."

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/8260195.Historic_Oxford_pub_to_get_a_revamp/

"The Bodleian Library is taking part in World Book Day 2010 by exhibiting a selection of JRR Tolkien’s original artwork which was used to illustrate The Hobbit. A unique manuscript of Hobbit doodles and a rare first edition of the book will also be on display. The free-of-charge one-day display will take place in the Divinity School of the Bodleian Library on Thursday, 4 March 2010."

http://www.articleant.com/gen/13491-there-and-back-again--the-hobbit-at-the-bodleian-library.html

Two articles on recent Tom Shippey talks
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/02/17/35281-tom-shippey-at-swarthmore-college-report/
http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2010/02/18/living/tolkien-scholar-unearths-important-legacies

And one on Shippey at Boskone
http://thesilverkey.blogspot.com/2010/02/recap-of-boskone-47-talking-tolkien.html

A reasonable article on Tolkien's Birmingham
http://www.pentrace.net/penbase/data_returns/full_article.asp?id=347

And a fangirl visits Oxford
http://teatimewithsarah.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-friends-call-me-harry.html

"A £14m Story Museum is to be created near Christ Church, to celebrate Oxford’s links with some of greatest authors of children’s literature."

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4747365.Oxford_city_to_get_a_new_museum_with_stories_to_tell/

Tolkien Society Guide to Oxford (ISBN: 0905520173 / 0-905520-17-3)
Bookseller: WORLDOFBOOKS.COM (GORING BY SEA, WS, United Kingdom)

Price: £ 15.99

Quantity Available: 1 Shipping Within United Kingdom: £ 2.99. Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good.

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1411693913&searchurl=kn%3D%2522tolkien%2Bsociety%2522%26sortby%3D0

(

muuranker - can you point ExMemSec towards this?)

"The first female Oxford Professor of Poetry resigned today following her involvement in an alleged smear campaign against a former rival."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/25/ruth-padel-oxford-poetry-resigns

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Entries tagged with oxford

We also went through Caithness, to the Tower of London, and to Oxford

Three good things: Tuesday

Draft bird species list from our holiday

OUMNH

Back home

A trip to Oxford

Any comment of mine would be superfluous

Tolkien fans hold annual Oxonmoot in Oxford

I think it's time for some links

Oxford again

Tolkien slept here

"Lord of the Rings reworking a hit with fans, but not Tolkien estate"

Oxford United's ox statue daubed in bright pink paint

We went to Oxonmoot

Bird and Baby

There and Back Again: The Hobbit at The Bodleian Library

Tolkien and Shippey; Tolkien and Birmingham; Tolkien and Oxford

Oxford city to get a new museum with stories to tell

Some of you will find this amusing

Oxford professor of poetry Ruth Padel resigns