Profs & Pints Baltimore: Haunted Landscapes of Middle-Earth

Profs and Pints Baltimore 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.

[Doors open at 4:30 and the talk starts at 5:30. The room is open seating.]

Come on a tour of some of the spookiest sites in Tolkien’s invented world to learn where, how, and why the beloved author injected hearty doses of horror into his high fantasy. You’ll learn how Tolkien tapped into medieval sources, dreams, and his own war experiences to make Middle-earth frightfully real.