Literary Walk
Sunday 18 March
Literary Walk
Partnership event with Leeds Combined Arts
There and back again - or to a happy ending
Join Leeds Combined Arts members and guests at the Statue of Alderman Marsden near Raglan Road on Woodhouse Moor for a linear walk with new material on Tolkien’s life in Leeds and how local landscapes and landmarks may have influenced his creative imagination and his sub-creation of Middle Earth, and The Lord of the Rings.
Also including settings known to Alan Bennett, T.S. Eliot and Lucy Newlyn, with short readings from their works.
The walk will finish in the centre of Headingley.
1.15pm
£1 donations
Literary Walk
Partnership event with Leeds Combined Arts
There and back again - or to a happy ending
Join Leeds Combined Arts members and guests at the Statue of Alderman Marsden near Raglan Road on Woodhouse Moor for a linear walk with new material on Tolkien’s life in Leeds and how local landscapes and landmarks may have influenced his creative imagination and his sub-creation of Middle Earth, and The Lord of the Rings.
Also including settings known to Alan Bennett, T.S. Eliot and Lucy Newlyn, with short readings from their works.
The walk will finish in the centre of Headingley.
1.15pm
£1 donations