Tolkien in Leeds

Welcome to my first video on Bitchute!
This is my presentation for the Headingley Literature Festival on 8 March 2018. The first part is from behind the Leeds University Engineering block where I have identified the location of Tolkien's house from St Mark's Terrace where he and his wife Edith and their first two children lived from the autumn of 1921 to mid 1924 when they moved to West Park, Darnley Road after he had been made Professor of English in that year.
The second section was videoed in a room in the Library Pub (formerly Woodhouse Library) which is only a short distance from the first location. Many thanks to the manager of the Library Pub for letting us use this room at short notice, I was very glad for a lovely cup of hot chocolate after being out in the driving cold wind.
In the second part I talk about Tolkien's early life and mention some of the nearby locations in Woodhouse and Headingley which he will have known and which I believe were source influences on some of his landscapes in Middle Earth.
We had planned to do a walk in which I would point out some of these features along Woodhouse Ridge and in old Headingley, but due to the extreme cold and snow (you can see the conditions in the first part of the video) we did this as a talk at the pub and then some went on the route while I had an informal Q&A session with others who remained behind.
We met later at the Skyrack pub in Headingley which was Tolkien's local when he first arrived in Leeds, and has just opened its Tolkien room overlooking the site of the old Shire Oak which was the founding point of Headingley in Anglo-Saxon times.
I explain how I believe the Shire Oak may have influenced Tolkien's mythic imagination in the second part. The cover image shows the Headingley Shire Oak from a postcard as it appeared during the time that Tolkien was here.
I should apologise for my slightly dishevelled appearance in the section from the pub, when I had just removed multiple layers of outer clothing as we came in from the perishing cold!

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