Past society events

Our first event of the year will be a screening of The Dark Knight! It's arguably the best Batman movie ever made, and will provide a great start to the year. There'll also be FREE PIZZA AND SNACKS, so come on down, and bring your friends! Everybody is welcome

During Welcome Week (or Freshers Week as it's more commonly known as), the Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) Student Union holds a societies fayre where you can find out more information about us or join us.

During Welcome Week (or Freshers Week as it's more commonly known as), the RHUL Student Union holds a societies fayre where you can find out more information about us or join us.

The 22nd of September is said to be the birth date of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, but obviously separated by many years.

The academic year has finished. Events will resume once the new year starts.

We thought we'd do a little social for people who are already around, before all the chaos of Freshers Week, so come along for a great afternoon of games, laughter, and science fiction/fantasy fun :)

Come along to vote for your new secretary, and possibly even run if you want to! After this, we will be watching a film, and as its members choice, this will be put to a vote, so feel free to bring along a DVD to suggest :)

This happens every year on the 25th of May as a tribute to the late Douglas Adams. As a reference to the awesome Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, fans carry with them a towel in his honour. Do you know where your towel is?

A young boy after being bullied by some other kids, steals a book and then breaks into an attic so he can skip school and read his ill gotten gains. The book tells the story of a young boy tasked with saving the world from a terrible Nothing by finding a cure for a dying princess.

Star Wars day is every year on the 4th of May. It is derived from a pun on the Jedi phrase "May the force be with you", namely "May the Fourth be with you".

Free Comic Book day is a yearly event where various comic stores around the world, give away copies from a specific list of comics, for free in a bid to promote comics to a wider audience. There are a number of stores taking part in this within the London area, although this trip will only focus on the ones located in the centre of town.

Royal Holloway is closed over the Easter period.

This day is celebrated as the Fall of Sauron. As of 2003 that day is known as Tolkien Reading Day, an event to encourage the use of Tolkien's works in education and library reading groups.

This is a very important event of the year for the society. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is where we elect the new committee for the coming year. It's vitally important everyone turns up as it has to be quorate to go ahead and if it doesn't happen, the society could be shut down. Full details of the rules that govern this process can be found in the constitution.

Based on the first two of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, this is a comedic fantasy about an inept wizard called Rincewind and the Disc's first tourist, Twoflower, who Rincewind is involuntarily forced to act as a guide for. Rincewind's unerring ability to attract danger and Twoflower's naivety land the pair in all manner of near death situations which they narrowly escape each time. The world is also about to end and Rincewind is unaware that he has one of the 8 spells that is needed trapped in his head.

In memory of the recent death of the beloved actor, Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original Star Trek series, we're having a special members choice devoted solely to Star Trek. So bring along any Star Trek related media along and we'll choose on the night what we're watching.

This week we're hosting another quiz much the same as the one last term. This is open to everyone so bring along your friends and combine your knowledge of science fiction and fantasy together.

Blending live action with animation, this film is set in a world where cartoon characters live in a parallel world called Toontown that humans and cartoons can travel easily between. Roger is a famous cartoon comedian who is framed for the murder of the man who owns Toontown. Whilst on the run he tries to enlist the help of Eddie Valiant, a private eye who has a deep seated hatred of 'toons ever since one killed his brother, but is possibly the only man who can prove his innocence.

The latest instalment of the X-Men saga is set in the future where mankind is waging war on the mutants. But this is a war neither side can win and so in a last ditch attempt to save everyone, the X-Men send Wolverine's consciousness back in time to his past self in the hope that he can somehow find a way to prevent the war from happening and thus save human and mutant-kind alike.

Picocon is a convention run by our counterpart society at Imperial College. It's a fun event filled with guest speakers, silly games and a quiz. This year the guests of honour are Cory Doctorow, Frances Hardinge, Ian McDonald, Kari Sperring and Stuart Ashen.