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The Tolkien Society has a tradition of hosting a short summer seminar to gather together researchers and non-academics on a specific topic. It is held most years since 1986 and has covered a wide range of subjects which you can browse here.This year, although the world situation means that the event has to happen online rather than in person, the seminar is still taking place, on Saturday 4th July (many thanks to the Tolkien Society for their ongoing work!). The selected theme is "Adapting Tolkien", which could hardly have been more fitting for me, so I applied and had the pleasure and honour of being chosen as one of the speakers. You can find my abstract below.The other illustrated Silmarillion&#160;:Francis Mosley for the Folio SocietyIn 1998, Ted Nasmith published his first illustrated Silmarillion, which became very popularamong Tolkien fans, so much so that a new, augmented edition was published in2004 with additional illustrations. What is less known is that the year before,The Folio Society had released another Silmarillion,illustrated by Francis Mosley. These two “Silmarillions”offer very different interpretations of the same text, partly because of theartists themselves, but also because of the space devoted to the pictures.This talk focuses on the 29 illustrations for the FolioSociety 1997 Silmarillion. It isbased on an exclusive written interview with the artist who agreed to answerquestions regarding his work. The questions will cover the artist’s reading ofthe text, his inspirations and sources, and the challenges he had to face whilecreating these artworks, as well as the interaction of his corpus with EricFraser and Ingahild Grathmer’s illustrations for The Hobbit and The Lord ofthe Rings.