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| Established | 6 November 1969 |
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| Founder | Vera Chapman |
| Legal status | Educational charity |
| Focus | Education |
| Location |
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Region served | Global |
President | J. R. R. Tolkien (in perpetuo) |
Vice-President | Priscilla Tolkien |
Chair | Shaun Gunner |
| Affiliations | Alliance of Literary Societies |
| Website | www |
The Tolkien Society is an educational charity and literary society devoted to the study and promotion of the life and works of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien.[1][2]
It began informally in 1969, and held its inaugural meeting in 1970. It holds five annual events, namely a Birthday Toast, a Tolkien Reading Day, an AGM and Springmoot, a Seminar, and the Oxonmoot conference-and-convention.
The society publishes a bulletin named Amon Hen, and a peer-reviewed journal, Mallorn. It has local groups called "smials", one of which, the Cambridge Tolkien Society, publishes the open access journal Anor.
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