Upcoming Events

Hello Ents and Entings!
Wellinghall, the Toronto Tolkien Society smial, will once again be celebrating the Toast to the Professor (albeit a tad late to give everyone a chance to recover from holiday festivities) and Tolkien Reading Day. The events will be held at cozy and atmospheric Toronto pubs - perfect for toasts, discussions and general mooting. We would love it if you could join us.

Toast to the Professor
On the 3rd January 1892 JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. To celebrate this event, on this day each year Tolkien fans around the world are invited to raise a glass and toast the birthday of this much loved author.
The toast is "The Professor".
Date: Saturday, January 19th
Place: Duke of Richmond, 20 Queen Street West Google Maps
Time: 3:00 pm

Tolkien Reading Day
It provides a chance for grownups and children to read together and share their thoughts about the stories by Tolkien that they may have already read, and encourages them to discover new ones.
Date: Saturday, March 15th
Place: Bow & Arrow, 1954 Yonge Street (at Davisville) Google Maps
Time: 12:30 pm
The reservation is under the name "Lara".

Wellinghall Forum Discussion

Inaugural issue of Silver Leaves

We're very happy to announce that Silver Leaves, The White Tree Fund's
journal, will be released on November 24, 2007. There is a lot of great
content in this inaugural issue including art by Jef Murray and Coralie
Allan, and articles by some amazing folks including Tom Shippey,
Michael Drout, Dimitra Fimi and Janet Brennan Croft. The cost of the journal
is $15.00 CDN (plus shipping and handling for printed copies), and
we'll get your copy out to you ASAP. For further information, please visit
our website at http://www.whitetreefund.org/.

We're already thinking ahead to the next issue, so if you have ideas,
comments or suggestions, or you'd like to make a submission, please let
us know by sending an email to silverleaves@whitetreefund.org.

Thanks so much.

The White Tree Fund journal team

Lecture Photos

Here's a link to photos taken at TWTF's lecture series:

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery.fcgi?p=999&gid=18296241

The White Tree Fund presents White Tree Lectures, a Tolkien lecture series

Place: South Dining Room in Hart House at U of T
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Admission: $10 for TWTF/Wellinghall smial members
                      $15 for non-members

Thursday, September 27:
Dr. John Browne from U of T will be speaking on "Tolkien as Wordsmith: One Reader's Journey Through The Lord of the Rings"

Thursday, October 25:
A panel discussion on The Children of Húrin

Please click here to purchase tickets. We hope to see you there!