Tolkien Scholar at Bradley U. Feb. 17

PEORIA -- J.R.R. Tolkien scholar Douglas A. Anderson will present "Annotating The Hobbit & Other Adventures" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at Bradley University's Neumiller Chapel in Bradley Hall.

Bradley adjunct English professor Mike Foster will moderate the free lecture.

Anderson is the award-winning author and editor of The Annotated Hobbit, Tales Before Tolkien, Tales Before Narnia, Seekers of Dreams, and, with Verlyn Flieger, an expanded critical edition of Tolkien's On Fairy-stories. He is also an editor of the academic journal Tolkien Studies.

Foster has been the North American representative of the Tolkien Society since 1995. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005, he taught a literature course on Tolkien at Illinois Central College. In 2006 and 2008, he taught an upper-division version of that class at Bradley University.