Profs & Pints DC: Haunted Landscapes of Middle-Earth

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Haunted Landscapes of Middle-Earth,” on J.R.R. Tolkien’s use of horror, with Peter Grybauskas, who has written extensively on Tolkien and teaches courses on him at the University of Maryland and abroad in the UK.

Come on a tour of some of the spookiest sites in Tolkien’s invented world and to learn where, how, and why the beloved author injected hearty doses of horror into his high fantasy.

Your guide on this journey, Peter Grybauskas, is the editor of a new volume of Tolkien’s scholarship and poetry, The Battle of Maldon (together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth) and author of A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas. He previously wowed Profs and Pints fans with a talk on Tolkien’s “untold stories,” or the tales only vaguely referenced in works like The Lord of the Rings.

This time around Grybauskas is offering…