(Chair: Sofia Sjö) Jyrki Korpua: ‘A chance-meeting, as we say in Middle-earth.’ Encounters in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
Katariina Kärkelä: Riddles in the Dark. Encounter as a turning-point in understanding
Nicholas Wanberg: Encountering Fantasy ‘Races’: When an Elf is (and isn’t) just an Elf