Anne joined the Tolkien Society in 2012 for the Return of the Ring and attended her first Oxonmoot that year. The Cottage of Lost Play (or the Art and Craft Room) started in 2013 as a space for fun. She first picked up LoTR as a teenager. She can’t remember when she first read The Hobbit!
Her interests include food and food history, early medieval history, crafts of all sorts, growing things and foraging, herbs and herbal remedies, languages, sciences and science, theology and comparative religion – as well as many things Tolkien … She does not claim to be an expert in any of them, but loves learning.