Guests of Honor

• Scholar: Doris T. Myers, author of C.S. Lewis in Context
• Artist: Ted Nasmith, artist of the 1996 Tolkien Calendar

Papers Presented

• Dr. Janice Bogstad, "Science/Magic Cusp: The 15th Century in Crowley, Eco, Gentle and Selected Contemporary Fantasy"
• David Bratman, "Hugo Dyson: Inkling, Teacher, Bon Vivant" and "Comparison of England's and Middle-earth's Administrative Geography"
• Dr. Joe Christopher, "The Nature Poetry of C.S. Lewis" and "The Dantean Structure of The Great Divorce"
• Steve Deyo, "Mytho-Poetic Diction: The Origins of Mythopoeia in the Works of Owen Barfield" and "A Secret Vice Re-examined: A Present Day Etiology"
• David Downing, "Development of Lewis' Otherworldly Nature Imagery"
• Dr. Verlyn Flieger, "The Green World in Conflict: Nature and Culture in Tolkien's Middle-earth"
• Prof. Michael A. Foster, "The Forest and the Hall: Nature and Man in Smith of Wootton Major"
• Dr. Diana Pavlac-Glyer, "An Antidote to Shadowlands"
• Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull, "Views and Visions of Nature in Tolkien's Art"
• Susanne E. Hill, "C.S. Lewis on Animals, Nature and Ethics"
• Gary Hunnewell, "The Astronomy of Durin's Day"
• Alexei Kondratiev, "An Cuma Scéal? (Does the Story Matter?) Two Celtic Language Writers of Modern Fantasy: Séamus MacAnnaidh and Robin Llywelyn"
• Dr. Bruce Leonard, "The Post-traumatic Stress Disorder of Frodo Baggins"
• Michael Johnson, "How Many Eldila Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?"
• Nancy Martsch, "J.R.R. Tolkien and American Fantasy"
• Marta Gracia de la Puerta, "Tolkien's Concept of Nature: Correlations with Galicia's Sense of Nature"
• Heidi Peterson, "In the Beginning: Reading Lewis into the Writing Nature Canon"
• David Sandner, "The Fantastic Sublime: Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories" and the Romantic Sublime"
• Dr. William Sarjeant, "The Geology of Middle-earth"
• Tim Schindler, "The Temptations of the One Ring of Power as Correlated to the Three Temptations of Christ in the Wilderness"
• Arden Smith, "Rúmilian Alphabet Workshop"