‘40 Years After Tolkien’ On Display at Samford Library

An exhibit celebrating the fantasy world of Middle Earth as created by J.R.R. Tolkien is on display at the Samford University Library. The collection includes first editions in hardback and paperback, movie posters and other documentation related to Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings series. 

The display acknowledges the 40th anniversary year of the death of Tolkien. The exhibit will be up through Jan. 2, 2013.

The items on display, more than 50 in all, are courtesy of Samford graduate student Rebecca Poe Hays and her father, Union University professor of theology and Christian apologetics Hal Poe. The two have studied and written extensively on Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and other literary-minded Inklings from Tolkien’s Oxford University tenure in the 1930s and 1940s.

For information, call the Samford library at 205-726-2748.