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5 June 2026<\/p>\n
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Few modern authors<\/p>\n
have placed language so centrally<\/p>\n
within their imaginative work<\/p>\n
as J.R.R. Tolkien.<\/p>\n
As a professional philologist, Tolkien did not merely invent stories populated by fictional peoples, he created languages, writing systems, linguistic histories, and philological traditions that formed the very foundations of his legendarium. As Tolkien famously observed, his stories were often conceived to provide a world for the languages rather than the reverse.<\/p>\n
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The Seminar will be held <\/strong><\/p>\n on Saturday, 21 November 2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n as a free online event<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <<<<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n events\/ \/2026\/06\/05\/<\/p>\n >>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <<< 5 June 2026 <<< Few modern authors have placed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42309,42308,39521],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pa-jrrt-tolkien-society-seminar","category-pa-jrrt-tolkien-society-seminar-2026","category-rev-halifirien-hfz2026-jrrt-tkn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161639,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161637\/revisions\/161639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}seminar-2026\/<\/a><\/h1>\n