This two-day academic conference, hosted by the Albert M. Wolters Centre for Christian Scholarship at Redeemer University and the Andrew Fuller Centre for Baptist Studies, will celebrate the life, literary works, and Christian faith of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973).
Louis Markos, professor in English and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. His 25 books include On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis, From A to Z to Middle-Earth with J. R. R. Tolkien, and Tolkien for Beginners.
Austin Freeman (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the author of Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth (2022, Lexham Press), and the editor of Theology and H.P. Lovecraft (2022, Lexington). He writes on theology and literature and teaches for the apologetics department at Houston Christian University.