Cormarë Series

 
The books of the Cormarë Series collect papers of non-fictional writing on Tolkien and his world.

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To date, 52 books have been published.

Short list (below), more detailed list (here).

Cormare series, number 52 Celebrating Tolkien's Legacy.
Nancy Bunting, Seamus Hamill-Keays and Toby Widdicombe :
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Cormare series, number 51 The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien:
see contents, read abstracts, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 50 Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin.
Thomas Honegger :
read abstract, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 49 Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium.
Richard Z. Gallant :
read abstract, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 48 The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination:
see contents, read abstracts.

Cormare series, number 47 Nólë Hyarmenillo An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien:
see contents, read abstracts, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 46 The Gallant Edith Bratt.
Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays :
read abstract, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 45 Tolkien and the Classical World:
see contents, read abstracts, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 44 Middle-earth or There and Back Again:
see contents, read abstracts, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 43 Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works:
see contents, read abstracts, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 42 Tolkien and the Classics.
Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri & Claudio A. Testi :
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Cormare series, number 41 "Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R.Tolkien in the Great War.
Janet Brennan Croft & Annika Röttinger :
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Cormare series, number 40 Sub-creating Arda:
World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies:
see contents, read abstracts, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 39 Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond:
see contents, read abstracts, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 38 Pagan Saints in Middle-earth.
Claudio Antonio Testi :
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Cormare series, number 37 Binding them all
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on JRR Tolkien and His Works:
see contents, read abstracts, see reviews.

Cormare series, number 36 J.R.R. Tolkien, Romanticist and Poet .
Julian Eilmann :
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Cormare series, number 35 Laughter in Middle-earth:
Humour in and around the Works of JRR Tolkien :
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Cormare series, number 34 Representations of Nature in Middle-earth :
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Cormare series, number 33 Deep Roots in a Time of Frost
Essays on Tolkien :
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Cormare series, number 32 Tolkien and Philosophy .
Roberto Arduini & Claudio A. Testi :
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Cormare series, number 31 From Peterborough to Faëry
The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds .
Thomas Honegger & Dirk Vanderbeke :
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Cormare series, number 30 In the Nameless Wood
Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien's Literary Creations .
J.S. Ryan :
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Cormare series, number 29 O What a Tangled Web
Tolkien and Medieval Literature
A View from Poland:
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Cormare series, number 28 Tolkien's Poetry.
Julian Eilmann & Allan Turner :
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Cormare series, number 27 Sub-creating Middle-earth – Constructions of Authorship and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien:
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Cormare series, number 26 The Broken Scythe:
Death and Immortality in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien .
Roberto Arduini and Claudio A. Testi (editors) :
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Cormare series, number 25 Wagner and Tolkien: Mythmakers .
Renée Vink :
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Cormare series, number 24 Tolkien and Wagner:
The Ring and Der Ring .
Christopher MacLachlan :
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Cormare series, number 23 Hobbit Place-names: A Linguistic Excursion through the Shire .
Rainer Nagel :
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Cormare series, number 22 The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams .
Margaret Hiley :
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Cormare series, number 21 The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien .
Liam Campbell :
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Cormare series, number 20 Music in Middle-earth .
Heidi Steimel and Friedhelm Schneidewind (editors) :
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Cormare series, number 19 Tolkien's View:
Windows into his World.
J.S. Ryan:
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Cormare series, number 18 Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – Sources of Inspiration :
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Cormare series, number 17 Tolkien's Shorter Works:
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Cormare series, number 16 The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition.
Martin Simonson:
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Cormare series, number 15 The Silmarillion Thirty Years On.
Allan Turner:
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Cormare series, number 14 Myth and Magic:
Art according to the Inklings:
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Cormare series, number 13 How We Became Middle-earth.
Adam Lam & Nataliya Oryshchuk:
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Cormare series, number 12 Inside Language.
Ross Smith:
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Cormare series, number 11 Roots and Branches.
Tom Shippey :
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Cormare series, number 10 Tolkien and Modernity 2:
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Cormare series, number 9 Tolkien and Modernity 1:
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Cormare series, number 8 Reconsidering Tolkien:
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Cormare series, number 7 Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The Spiritual Dimension in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Christopher Garbowski:
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Cormare series, number 6 Translating Tolkien: Text and Film:
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Cormare series, number 5 Tolkien Through Russian Eyes .
Mark T. Hooker :
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Cormare series, number 4 Tolkien in Translation :
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Four Christian Fantasists: A Study of the Fantastic Writings of George MacDonald, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Richard Sturch: read abstract, reviews

Root and Branch - Approaches towards Understanding Tolkien: see contents, read abstracts, reviews

News from the Shire and Beyond - Studies on Tolkien: see contents, read abstracts

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More details on these books are listed below.

 
Cormare series, number 52 Celebrating Tolkien's Legacy

Celebrating Tolkien's Legacy:
Nancy Bunting, Seamus Hamill-Keays and Toby Widdicombe . (read abstract)

324 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 52, ISBN 978-3-905703-52-8

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Cormare series, number 51 The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien

Introduction :
Will Sherwood . (read abstract)

"Anglo-Saxons on Horseback" or "Mail-Shirted Sioux or Cheyenne"? Romantic Native Americans and Tolkien's Rohirrim :
Valentina P. Aparicio and Elliott Greene . (read abstract)

Tolkien, Medieval Romances and the Romantic Spirit :
Lynn Forest-Hill . (read abstract)

J.R.R. Tolkien,Walter Scott, and Scott-ish Romanticism :
Sharin Schroeder . (read abstract)

A Dark Romantic Gaze: Otherness and Evil in Hoffmann and Tolkien :
Mariana Rios Maldonado . (read abstract)

Words, Words, Words: Tolkien, Barfield and Romanticism :
Verlyn Flieger . (read abstract)

Horns, Bullets, and Rings: Tolkien’s "extreme fondness" for Carl Maria von Weber :
Chiara Bertoglio . (read abstract)

Indirect Artistic Influences: The Visual Art of J.R.R. Tolkien and William Blake :
Annise Rogers . (read abstract)

"living shapes that move from mind to mind": Tolkien’s Visual Romanticism :
David Smith . (read abstract)

Tolkien’s Romantic Gusto :
Kacie L. Wills and Christopher Hagan . (read abstract)

Tolkien and Coleridge: Act and Desire in The Silmarillion :
Adam Neikirk . (read abstract)

Romantic Imagination, Fancy, and kalymma in Tolkien’s ‘On Fairy-stories’ :
John R. Holmes . (read abstract)

‘The Backs of Trees’: Tolkien, the British Theological Romantics, & the Fantastic Imagination :
Austin M. Freeman . (read abstract)

"His songs are stronger songs": Aesthetic Creation, Enchantment, and the Wordsworthian Sublime in Tolkien :
Brandon Wernette . (read abstract)

Walking into Mordor: Tolkien and Romantic Travel Writing :
Eva Lippold . (read abstract)

"The Ghostly Language of the Ancient Earth": Tolkien, Geology, and Romantic Lithology :
Nick Groom . (read abstract)

422 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 51, Editor: Will Sherwood & Julian Eilmann , ISBN 978-3-905703-51-1

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Cormare series, number 50 Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin

Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin:
Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

435 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2023, Cormarë No 50, ISBN 978-3-905703-50-4

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Cormare series, number 49 Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium

Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium:
Richard Z. Gallant . (read abstract)

251 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 49, ISBN 978-3-905703-49-8

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Cormare series, number 48 The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination

Foreword :
Łukasz Neubauer and Guglielmo Spirito . (read abstract)

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien:
Friendship, True Myth, and Platonism :
Justin Keena . (read abstract)

"What do they teach them at these schools?":
A Critique of Modern and Postmodern Outlook in the Writings of Lewis and Tolkien :
Piotr Anicet Gruszczyński . (read abstract)

Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time is not Healing:
Pauline Law in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien :
Giovanni C. Costabile . (read abstract)

The Lion and the Pitch:
Creation Myths and Music in Lewis and Tolkien :
Chiara Bertoglio . (read abstract)

Ex nihilo or ex materia?:
The Acts of Sub-creation in J.R.R. Tolkien's Arda and C.S. Lewis's Narnia :
Łukasz Neubauer . (read abstract)

The Interpenetration of Past, Present and Future in The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings :
Joanna Łękawska . (read abstract)

A Jumble of Unrelated Mythologies?:
Cohesion and Consistency in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Hobbit :
Gabriel Schenk . (read abstract)

Dionysiac, Apolline, Orphic, or...?:
Nietzschean Conflicts in Representing the Natural World in Christian Fantasy :
Hamish Williams . (read abstract)

The Liminality of J.R.R. Tolkien's Non-human Species:
A View through the Lens of C.S. Lewis :
Andrzej Wicher . (read abstract)

"Ye are of your father the devil":
Satanic Figures in Arda and Narnia :
Franz Georg Árpád Klug . (read abstract)

The Nostalgic Fantasy of "Good Plain Food" in Narnia and Middle-earth :
Kris Swank . (read abstract)

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359 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 48, Editor: Łukasz Neubauer and Gugliemo Spirito , ISBN 978-3-905703-48-1

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Cormare series, number 47 Nólë Hyarmenillo An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien

Introduction :
Nuno Simões Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, Angélica Varandas . (read abstract)

"I didn't see the films, but I read the posters" :
Miguel Moiteiro Marques . (read abstract)

Facing Hope: The Lord of the Rings, Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon Elegiac Tradition :
Angélica Varandas . (read abstract)

‘I See Fire': Adapting The Hobbit beyond the Image
:
Ana Daniela Coelho . (read abstract)

Asgard and Valinor: Worlds in Comparison
:
Hélio Pires . (read abstract)

The Voice of Nature in Middle-earth through the Lens of Testimony
:
Andoni Cossio . (read abstract)

"Nonetheless They Will Have Need of Wood": Aesthetic and Utilitarian Approaches to Trees in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales :
Martin Simonson . (read abstract)

Boromir: a Character Doomed to Die :
Alejandro Martínez-Sobrino . (read abstract)

Shadows of Middle-earth: Tolkien in Subculture, Counterculture and Exploitation :
Mónica Sanz . (read abstract)

"Aren't You Going to Search My Trousers?": Gender and the Representation of the Dwarves in Peter Jackson's Adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit :
Amaya Fernández Menicucci . (read abstract)

206 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2022, Cormarë No 47, Editor: Nuno Simões Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, Angélica Varandas , ISBN 978-3-905703-47-4

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Cormare series, number 46 The Gallant Edith Bratt

The Gallant Edith Bratt:
Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays . (read abstract)

258 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2021, Cormarë No 46, ISBN 978-3-905703-46-7

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Cormare series, number 45 Tolkien and the Classical World

Editor's Notes :
Hamish Williams . (read abstract)

Classical Tradition, Modern Fantasy, and the Generic Contracts of Readers :
Hamish Williams . (read abstract)

Tolkien the Classicist: Scholar and Thinker :
Hamish Williams . (read abstract)

Greek and Roman Historiographies in Tolkien's Númenor :
Ross Clare . (read abstract)

The Gods in (Tolkien's) Epic:
Classical Patterns of Divine Interaction :
Giuseppe Pezzini . (read abstract)

Middle-earth as Underworld:
From Katabasis to Eucatastrophe :
Benjamin Eldon Stevens . (read abstract)

Pietas and the Fall of the City: A Neglected
Virgilian Influence on Middle-earth's Chief Virtue :
Austin M. Freeman . (read abstract)

The Love Story of Orpheus and
Eurydice in Tolkien's Orphic Middle-earth :
Peter Astrup Sundt . (read abstract)

Plato's Atlantis and the Post-Platonic
Tradition in Tolkien's Downfall of Númenor :
Michael Kleu . (read abstract)

Less Consciously at First but More Consciously in
the Revision: Plato's Ring of Gyges as a Putative
Source of Inspiration for Tolkien's Ring of Power :
Łukasz Neubauer . (read abstract)

Horror and Fury: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of
Húrin and the Aristotelian Theory of Tragedy :
Julian Eilmann . (read abstract)

"Eastwards and Southwards": Philological and
Historical Perspectives on Tolkien and Classicism :
Philip Burton . (read abstract)

The Noldorization of the Edain: The Roman-
Germani Paradigm for the Noldor and Edain in
Tolkien's Migration Era :
Richard Z. Gallant . (read abstract)

"Escape and Consolation":
Gondor as the Ancient Mediterranean and Rohan
as the Germanic World in The Lord of the Rings :
Juliette Harrisson . (read abstract)

Shepherds and the Shire:
Classical Pastoralism in Middle-earth :
Alley Marie Jordan . (read abstract)

Classical Influences on
the Role of Music in Tolkien's Legendarium :
O. Filonenko and V. Shchepanskyi . (read abstract)

Afterword: Tolkien's Response to Classics in Its Wider Context :
D. Graham J. Shipley . (read abstract)

414 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2021, Cormarë No 45, Editor: Hamish Williams , ISBN 978-3-905703-45-0

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Cormare series, number 44 Middle-earth or There and Back Again

Foreword:
Łukasz Neubauer . (read abstract)

Tolkien and the Myth of Atlantis, or the Usefulness of Dreams and the Methodology of Mythmaking :
Michał Leśniewski . (read abstract)

'You cannot pass':
Tolkien's Christian Reinterpretation of the Traditional Germanic Ideals of Heroism and Loyalty in The Lord of the Rings :
Łukasz Neubauer . (read abstract)

Tolkien's Use of the Motif of Goldsmith-craft and the Middle English Pearl: Ring or Hand? :
Barbara Kowalik . (read abstract)

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur in the Context of the Medieval Tradition of Romance :
Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz . (read abstract)

The Mythical Model of the World in The Story of Kullervo :
Andrzej Szyjewski . (read abstract)

The Wisdom of Galadriel:
A Study in the Theology of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings :
Andrzej Wicher . (read abstract)

Index :
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130 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2020, Cormarë No 44, Editor: Łukasz Neubauer , ISBN 978-3-905703-44-3

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Cormare series, number 43 Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works

Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works:
José María Miranda Boto . (read abstract)

264 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2022, Cormarë No 43, Editor: José María Miranda Boto , ISBN 978-3-905703-43-6

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Cormare series, number 42 Tolkien and the Classics

245 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë No 42, ISBN 978-3905703-42-9

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Cormare series, number 41 "Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R.Tolkien in the Great War

383 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë No 41, ISBN 978-3-905703-41-2

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Cormare series, number 40 Sub-creating Arda:
World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies

Introduction:
Dimitra Fimi & Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

Concerning the "Sub" in "Subcreation": The Act of Creating Under :
Mark J.P. Wolf . (read abstract)

One Pair of Eyes: Focalisation and Worldbuilding:
Allan Turner . (read abstract)

Worldbuilding and Mythopoeia in Tolkien and post- Tolkienian Fantasy Literature:
Massimiliano Izzo . (read abstract)

Beyond Fantastic Self-indulgence: Aesthetic Limits to World-building:
Péter Kristóf Makai . (read abstract)

Worldbuilding Design Patterns in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien:
N. Trevor Brierly . (read abstract)

Ilu’s Music: The Creation of Tolkien's Creation Myth:
John Garth . (read abstract)

On No Magic in Tolkien: Resisting the Representational Criteria of Realism :
Gergely Nagy . (read abstract)

Tolkien the Tinkerer: World-building versus Storytelling:
Renée Vink . (read abstract)

Composition as Exploration: Fictional Development in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings:
Jonathan Nauman . (read abstract)

Temporal Topographies: Mapping the Geological and Anthropological Effects of Time in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium:
Anahit Behrooz . (read abstract)

Sundering Seas and Watchers in the Water: Water as a Subversive Element in Middle-earth:
Robin Markus Auer . (read abstract)

Lyrics on Lost Lands: Constructing Lost Places through Poetry in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings:
Michaela Hausmann . (read abstract)

Mountain People in Middle-earth: Ecology and the Primitive:
Hamish Williams . (read abstract)

Then Smaug Spoke:
On Constructing the Fantastic via Dialogue in Tolkien's Story Cosmos:
Timo Lothmann, Arndt Heilmann, Sven Hintzen . (read abstract)

Artefacts and Immersion in the Worldbuilding of Tolkien and the Brontës:
Maureen F. Mann . (read abstract)

Sub-creation by any Other Name:
The Artist and God in the Early Twentieth Century:
Bradford Lee Eden . (read abstract)

A Mythology for Poland: Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Fantasy Series as a Tolkienian Subcreation:
Kristine Larsen . (read abstract)

More than Narrative: The Role of Paratexts in the World-building of Austin Tappan Wright, J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin:
Andrew Higgins . (read abstract)

The Faërie World of Michael Swanwick:
Tom Shippey . (read abstract)

Absence of gods vs. Absence of God: The Spiritual Landscapes of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and George R.R. Martin's Westeros:
Łukasz Neubauer . (read abstract)

464 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë No 40, Editor: Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger , ISBN 978-3-905703-40-5

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Cormare series, number 39 Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond

Introduction
"I love music": The Musicality of the Philologist :
Julian Eilmann & Friedhelm Schneidewind . (read abstract)

Polyphony, Collective Improvisation, and the Gift of Creation "I love music": The Musicality of the Philologist :
Chiara Bertoglio . (read abstract)

Laments and Mercy:
Tolkien and Liturgical Music :
Michaël Devaux & Guglielmo Spirito . (read abstract)

Middle-earth Improv:
Song Writing and Improvisation in Tolkien's Works :
Nancy Martsch . (read abstract)

What news from the North?": The Compositional Fabric, Intricate Imagery and Heroic Christian Character of the "Lament for Boromir" :
Łukasz Neubauer . (read abstract)

"Go forth, for it is there!"
An Imperialist Battle Cry behind the Lament for Boromir? :
Jörg Fündling . (read abstract)

"A Matter of Song": The Power of Music and Song in Tolkien's Legendarium :
Elizabeth A. Whittingham . (read abstract)

"The Scholar as Minstrel":
Word-music and Sound-words in Tolkien's "New Works" :
Bradford Lee Eden . (read abstract)

Tolkien's Minstrelsy:
The Performance of History and Authority :
Lynn Forest-Hill . (read abstract)

Musicality in Tolkien's Prose :
Maureen F. Mann . (read abstract)

"A deep silence fell":
Silence and the Presentation of 'Voices' in Tolkien :
Petra Zimmermann . (read abstract)

Dance and Song: "The Lay of Leithian" between "The Tale of Tinúviel" and "Of Beren and Lúthien" :
Renée Vink . (read abstract)

Music and the Outcast:
Songs of the Wanderer in Tolkien's Time-Travel Fragments :
Jennifer Rogers . (read abstract)

Aragorn, Music and the "Divine Plan" :
Angela P. Nicholas . (read abstract)

"Where you hear song, you may rest at ease":
The Music of the Evil Ones in Middle-earth :
Sabine Frambach . (read abstract)

An Orchestra in Middle-earth :
Heidi Steimel . (read abstract)

Nis me ti hearpun hygi:
Harping on One String in Middle-earth :
John Holmes . (read abstract)

The Horns of Elfland :
Allan Turner . (read abstract)

Portatives in Middle-earth:
A Speculative Approach to Organ Instruments in Tolkien’s Work :
Rainer Groß . (read abstract)

The Lords of the Rings:
Wagner’s Ring and Tolkien’s "Faërie" :
Anja Müller . (read abstract)

"True Music in the Words":
A Comparative Analysis of the Function of Music in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles :
Patrick Schmitz . (read abstract)

Of Home Keys and Music Style Guides:
Orchestral Scores for Tolkien-based Video Games :
Tobias Escher . (read abstract)

474 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë No 39, Editor: Julian Eilmann & Friedhelm Schneidewind , ISBN 978-3-905703-39-9

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Cormare series, number 38 Pagan Saints in Middle-earth

196 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2018, Cormarë No 38, Editor: Claudio Antonio Testi , ISBN 978-3-905703-38-2

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Cormare series, number 37 Binding them all
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on JRR Tolkien and His Works

The Tolkien Journey at the University of Augsburg:
Stephan Köser (with Monika Kirner-Ludwig & Sebastian Streitberger) . (read abstract)

"Meet the Professor" – A Present-day Colleague's View of Tolkien's Academic Life and Work
:
Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

A Meta-pragmatic and Discourse-analytical Approach to Tolkien's "Beowulf The Monsters and the Critics": A Deliberate Look at its Edges, not its Center:
Monika Kirner-Ludwig . (read abstract)

"One trailer to bring them all and in the darkness bind them?" Lord of the Rings Trailers and their Communicative Functions:
Heike Krebs . (read abstract)

Searching "For a Better Rhythm, or a Better Word or Phrase": Tolkien's Re-Telling of the Legend of King Arthur in Alliterative Metre:
Birgit Schwan . (read abstract)

Wounds That Can(not) Be Wholly Cured: Ecopsychology, Solastalgia and Mental Substainability in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings:
Heike Schwarz . (read abstract)

Ethereal Elvish and Horrid Orkish:
An Attempt to Capture J.R.R. Tolkien's Controversial Theory of Linguistic Aesthetics and Phonetic Fitness:
Magdalena Spachmann . (read abstract)

Concepts of Space in Middle-earth‘s Landscapes or the Potential of Fantasy and Film for School Geography:
Sebastian Streitberger . (read abstract)

Insights into Mapping the Imagined World of J.R.R. Tolkien :
Sabine Timpf . (read abstract)

How J.R.R. Tolkien Used Kennings to Make The Lord of the Rings into a Medieval Epic for the 20th Century:
Carolin Tober . (read abstract)

Exploring the Linguistic Past through the Work(s) of J.R.R. Tolkien: Some Points of Orientation from English Language History:
Oliver M. Traxel . (read abstract)

Tolkien's Green Man: The Racialised Cultural Other Within and Green Spaces in The Lord of the Rings:
Christine Vogt-William . (read abstract)

339 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2017, Cormarë No 37, Editor: Monika Kirner-Ludwig, Stephan Köser & Sebastian Streitberger , ISBN 978-3-905703-37-5

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Cormare series, number 36 J.R.R. Tolkien, Romanticist and Poet

J.R.R. Tolkien, Romanticist and Poet :
Julian Eilmann . (read abstract)

xxx pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2017, Cormarë No 36, ISBN 978-3-905703-36-8

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Cormare series, number 35 Laughter in Middle-earth:
Humour in and around the Works of JRR Tolkien

"Certainly not our sense": Tolkien and Nonsense :
Maureen F. Mann . (read abstract)

A Fountain of Mirth: Laughter in Arda :
Alastair Whyte . (read abstract)

Mirth's Might:
The Tenacity of Humour in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien :
Jennifer Raimundo . (read abstract)

Plain Ignorance in the Vulgar Form:
Tolkien's Onomastic Humour in Farmer Giles of Ham :
Łukasz Neubauer . (read abstract)

"This of course is the way to talk to dragons":
Etiquette-Based Humour in The Hobbit :
Laura Lee Smith . (read abstract)

Parodies of the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien :
Evelyn Koch . (read abstract)

Strategies of Humour in The Stupid Ring Parody :
Sherrylyn Branchaw . (read abstract)

Humour in Art Depicting Middle-earth :
Davide Martini . (read abstract)

Humour, Comedy, the Comic, Comicality, Puns, Wordplay, 'Fantastication', and 'English Humour' in and around Tolkien and His Work, and among the Inklings :
Jared Lobdell . (read abstract)

242 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2016, Cormarë No 35, Editor: Thomas Honegger & Maureen F. Mann , ISBN 978-3-905703-35-1

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Cormare series, number 34 Representations of Nature in Middle-earth

"Transform stalwart trees": Sylvan Biocentrism in The Lord of the Rings:
Andrea Denekamp . (read abstract)

"As we draw near mountains": Nature and Beauty in the Hearts of Dwarves:
Jessica Seymour . (read abstract)

"Behind a grey rain-curtain": Water, Melancholy and Healing in The Lord of the Rings:
Gabriela Silva Rivero . (read abstract)

Eru will enter Ëa: The Creational-Eschatological Hope of J.R.R. Tolkien:
Yannick Imbert . (read abstract)

Thinking with the Elements: J.R.R. Tolkien's Ecology and Object-Oriented Ontology:
Christopher Roman . (read abstract)

On Trees of Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien's Mythical Creation:
Magdalena Mączyńska . (read abstract)

In Living Memory: Tolkien's Trees and Sylvan Landscapes as Metaphors of Cultural Memory:
Doris McGonagill . (read abstract)

A New Zealand Perspective on the Tectonics of Middle-earth:
Peter Hodder . (read abstract)

"Leaves of Gold There Grew": Lothlórien, Postcolonialism, and Ecology:
Gabriel Ertsgaard . (read abstract)

235 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2015, Cormarë No 34, Editor: Martin Simonson , ISBN 978-3-905703-34-4

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Cormare series, number 33 Deep Roots in a Time of Frost
Essays on Tolkien

"Less Noise and More Green": Tolkien's Ideology for England:
. (read abstract)

Magic vs. Enchantment:
. (read abstract)

Enchantment in Tolkien and Middle-earth:
. (read abstract)

Iron Crown, Iron Cage: Tolkien and Weber on Modernity and Enchantment:
. (read abstract)

The Third Road: Faërie in Hypermodernity:
. (read abstract)

Tolkien and his Critics: a Critique:
. (read abstract)

On Reading Tolkien:
. (read abstract)

The Critical Response to Tolkien's Fiction:
. (read abstract)

Approaches to Myth in Middle-earth:
. (read abstract)

255 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2014, Cormarë No 33, Editor: , ISBN 978-3-905703-33-7

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Cormare series, number 32 Tolkien and Philosophy

159 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2014, Cormarë No 32, ISBN 978-3-905703-32-0

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Cormare series, number 31 From Peterborough to Faëry
The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds

170 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2014, Cormarë No 31, ISBN 978-3-905703-31-3

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Cormare series, number 30 In the Nameless Wood
Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien's Literary Creations

In the Nameless Wood
Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien's Literary Creations :
J.S. Ryan . (read abstract)

365 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2013, Cormarë No 30, ISBN 978-3-905703-30-6

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Cormare series, number 29 O What a Tangled Web
Tolkien and Medieval Literature
A View from Poland

Introduction: Tolkien in Poland.
A Medievalist Liaison:
Barbara Kowalik . (read abstract)

"O, what a tangled web we weave".
The Lord of the Rings and the Interlacement Technique:
Joanna Kokot . (read abstract)

Orality and Literacy in Middle-earth:
Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz . (read abstract)

Rohan and the Social Codes of Heroic Epic and Chivalric Romance:
Justyna Brzezińska . (read abstract)

Tolkien's Queen Women in The Lord of the Rings:
Maria Błaszkiewicz . (read abstract)

Elbereth the Star-Queen Seen in the Light of Medieval Marian Devotion:
Barbara Kowalik . (read abstract)

The Fallen: Milton's Satan and Tolkien's Melkor:
Katarzyna Blacharska . (read abstract)

Berserkir, Bödvar Bjarki and the Dragon Fáfnir.
The Influence of Selected Medieval Icelandic Sagas on Tolkien's Works for Children:
Renata Leśniakiewicz-Drzymała . (read abstract)

'He has gone to God glory seeking': Tolkien's Critique of the Northern Courage and Rejection of the Traditional Heroic Ethos in "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" :
Łukasz Neubauer . (read abstract)

What Exactly Does Tolkien Argue for in "Beowulf:
The Monsters and the Critics?" An Attempt at a Metacriticism:
Andrzej Wicher . (read abstract)

196 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2013, Cormarë No 29, Editor: Barbara Kowalik , ISBN 978-3-905703-29-0

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Cormare series, number 28 Tolkien's Poetry

221 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2013, Cormarë No 28, ISBN 978-3-905703-28-3

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Cormare series, number 27 Sub-creating Middle-earth – Constructions of Authorship and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien

The One or the Many?
Authorship, Voice and Corpus :
Dirk Vanderbeke & Allan Turner . (read abstract)

Tolkien's Triple Balance:
A Redemptive Model of Heroism for the Twentieth Century :
Martin Simonson . (read abstract)

Tolkien's 'Strange Powers of the Mind':
Dreams, Visionary History and Authorship :
Judith Klinger . (read abstract)

(Re)Authoring History:
Tolkien and Postcolonialism :
Margaret Hiley . (read abstract)

One Author to Rule Them All :
Patrick A. Brückner . (read abstract)

The Chronicle Without an Author:
History, Myth and Narration in Tolkien's Legendarium :
Cécile Cristofari . (read abstract)

209 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 27, Editor: Judith Klinger , ISBN 978-3-905703-27-6

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Cormare series, number 26 The Broken Scythe:
Death and Immortality in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Broken Scythe:
Death and Immortality in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien :
Roberto Arduini and Claudio A. Testi (editors) . (read abstract)

256 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 26, ISBN 978-3-905703-26-9

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Cormare series, number 25 Wagner and Tolkien: Mythmakers

Wagner and Tolkien: Mythmakers :
Renée Vink . (read abstract)

300 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 25, ISBN 978-3-905703-25-2

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Cormare series, number 24 Tolkien and Wagner:
The Ring and Der Ring

Tolkien and Wagner:
The Ring and Der Ring :
Christopher MacLachlan . (read abstract)

240 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 24, ISBN 978-3-905703-21-4

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Cormare series, number 23 Hobbit Place-names: A Linguistic Excursion through the Shire

Hobbit Place-names: A Linguistic Excursion through the Shire :
Rainer Nagel . (read abstract)

302 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 23, ISBN 978-3-905703-22-1

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Cormare series, number 22 The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams

The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams :
Margaret Hiley . (read abstract)

256 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2011, Cormarë No 22, ISBN 978-3-905703-19-1

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Cormare series, number 21 The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien

The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien :
Liam Campbell . (read abstract)

305 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2011, Cormarë No 21, ISBN 978-3-905703-18-4

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Cormare series, number 20 Music in Middle-earth

Music in Middle-earth :
Heidi Steimel and Friedhelm Schneidewind (editors) . (read abstract)

311 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2010, Cormarë No 20, ISBN 978-3-905703-14-6

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Cormare series, number 19 Tolkien's View:
Windows into his World

Tolkien's View:
Windows into his World:
J.S. Ryan. (read abstract)

286 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2009, Cormarë No 19, ISBN 978-3-905703-13-9

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Cormare series, number 18 Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – Sources of Inspiration

Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – Sources of Inspiration :
 . (read abstract)

Tolkien, Exeter College and the Great War :
John Garth . (read abstract)

The Word as Leaf:
Perspectives on Tolkien as Lexicographer and Philologist :
Peter Gilliver, Edmund Weiner, and Jeremy Marshall . (read abstract)

Gilson, Smith, and Baggins :
Verlyn Flieger . (read abstract)

Enchantment in Tolkien and Middle-earth :
Patrick Curry . (read abstract)

From Vico to Tolkien:
The Affirmation of Myth Against the Tyranny of Reason :
Marek Oziewicz . (read abstract)

Frodo or Zarathustra:
Beyond Nihilism in Tolkien and Nietzsche :
Peter M. Candler, Jr. . (read abstract)

Morals Makyth Man – and Hobbit :
Leon Pereira OP . (read abstract)

Tolkien, Chesterton, and Thomism :
Alison Milbank . (read abstract)

The Influence of Holiness:
The Healing Power of Tolkien's Narrative :
Guglielmo Spirito OFM Conv. . (read abstract)

Tolkien's Project :
Stratford Caldecott . (read abstract)

248 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2008, Cormarë No 18, Editor: Stratford Caldecott and Thomas Honegger , ISBN 978-3-905703-12-2

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Cormare series, number 17 Tolkien's Shorter Works

Tolkien's Shorter Works :
 . (read abstract)

Introduction :
Margaret Hiley & Frank Weinreich . (read abstract)

"Tom Bombadil": Poetry and Accretion :
Allan Turner . (read abstract)

Speaking With Animals:
A Desire that Lies Near the Heart of Faërie :
Guglielmo Spirito OFM Conv. (Assisi) . (read abstract)

Setting Things Right in Farmer Giles of Ham and the Lord of the Rings:
Tolkien’s Conception of Justice :
Marek Oziewicz . (read abstract)

The Rout of the King: Tolkien’s Readings on Arthurian Kingship – Farmer Giles of Ham and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth :
Vincent Ferré . (read abstract)

Farmer Giles of Ham:
the Prototype of a Humorous Dragon Story :
Friedhelm Schneidewind . (read abstract)

"... Until the Dragon Comes":
Tolkien’s Dragon-Motif as Poetological Concept :
Patrick Brückner . (read abstract)

Theology and Fairy-Stories:
A Theological Reading of Tolkien’s Shorter Works? :
Thomas Fornet-Ponse . (read abstract)

The "Meaning" of Leaf by Niggle :
Betrand Alliot . (read abstract)

The Autobiographical Tolkien :
Heidi Steimel . (read abstract)

Leaf by Tolkien?
Allegory and Biography in Tolkien’s Literary Theory and Practice :
Fabian Geier . (read abstract)

Redefining the Romantic Hero: a Reading of Smith of Wootton Major in the Light of Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg :
Martin Simonson . (read abstract)

Smith of Wootton Major, "The Sea-Bell" and Lothlórien:
Tolkien and the Perils of Faërie :
Maria Raffaella Benvenuto . (read abstract)

A Star Above the Mast:
Tolkien, Faërie and the Great Escape :
Anna E. Slack . (read abstract)

Journeys in the Dark :
Margaret Hiley . (read abstract)

Smith of Wootton Major Considered as a Religious Text :
Martin Sternberg . (read abstract)

Metaphysics of Myth:
The Platonic Ontology of "Mythopoeia" :
Frank Weinreich . (read abstract)

352 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2008, Cormarë No 17, Editor: Margaret Hiley & Frank Weinreich , ISBN 978-3-905703-11-5

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Cormare series, number 16 The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition

The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition:
Martin Simonson. (read abstract)

243 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2008, Cormarë No 16, ISBN 978-3-905703-09-2

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Cormare series, number 15 The Silmarillion Thirty Years On

Warning: Undefined array key 0 in /home/httpd/vhosts/walking-tree.org/httpdocs/cormare.php on line 219 The Silmarillion: 30 years on :
. (read abstract)

176 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Cormarë No 15, ISBN 978-3-905703-10-8

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Cormare series, number 14 Myth and Magic:
Art according to the Inklings

Recovering the “Utterly Alien Land”:
Tolkien and Transcendentalism :
Martin Simonson . (read abstract)

New Learning and New Ignorance:
Magia, Goeteia, and the Inklings :
Tom Shippey . (read abstract)

Words for Magic: goetia, gûl and lúth :
Dieter Bachmann . (read abstract)

When is a Fairy Story a Faërie Story?
Smith of Wootton Major :
Verlyn Flieger . (read abstract)

Myth, Fact and Incarnation :
Colin Duriez . (read abstract)

Iron Crown, Iron Cage:
Tolkien and Weber on Modernity and Enchantment :
Patrick Curry . (read abstract)

A Mythology for England?
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth :
Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

Lewis’s View of Myth
as a Conveyer of Deepest Truth :
Devin Brown . (read abstract)

‘A Kind of Orpheus-Legend in Reverse’:
Two Classical Myths in the Story of Beren and Lúthien :
Miryam Librán-Moreno . (read abstract)

A Monster that Matters: Tolkien’s Grendel Revisited :
Eugenio M. Olivares-Merino . (read abstract)

A Tale as Old as Time, Freshly Told Anew:
Love and Sacrifice in Tolkien, Lewis and Rowling :
Margarita Carretero-González . (read abstract)

The Hidden Meanings of the Name ‘Ransom’:
Strange Philology and ‘Contradiction’ in C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy :
Fernando J. Soto and Marta García de la Puerta . (read abstract)

‘As Under a Green Sea’:
Visions of War in the Dead Marshes :
John Garth . (read abstract)

Leaf by Niggle and the Aesthetics of Gift:
Towards a Definition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Notion of Art :
Eduardo Segura . (read abstract)

352 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Cormarë No 14, Editor: Eduardo Segura & Thomas Honegger , ISBN 978-3-905703-08-5

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Cormare series, number 13 How We Became Middle-earth

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. (read abstract)

460 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Cormarë No 13, ISBN 978-3-905703-07-8

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Cormare series, number 12 Inside Language

Inside Language:
Ross Smith. (read abstract)

175 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Second edition 2011, Cormarë No 12, ISBN 978-3-905703-20-7

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Cormare series, number 11 Roots and Branches

Roots and Branches:
Tom Shippey . (read abstract)

417 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Cormarë No 11, ISBN 978-3-905703-05-4

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Cormare series, number 10 Tolkien and Modernity 2

Introduction :
Frank Weinreich & Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

Tolkien on Love
Concepts of ‘Love’ in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings :
Patrick Brueckner . (read abstract)

The Lord of the Rings and ‘Late Style’:
Tolkien, Adorno and Said :
Margaret Hiley . (read abstract)

An Introduction to the Dynamics of the Intertraditional Dialogue in The Lord of the Rings:
Aragorn’s Heroic Evolution :
Martin Simonson . (read abstract)

Slow-Kindled Courage.
A Study of Heroes in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien :
Anna Slack . (read abstract)

Hidden Paths of Time:
March 13th and the Riddles of Shelob’s Lair :
Judith Klinger . (read abstract)

The Passing of the Elves and the Arrival of Modernity:
Tolkien’s ‘Mythical Method’ :
Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

The Shaping of ‘Reality’ in Tolkien’s Works:
An Aspect of Tolkien and Modernity :
Heidi Krueger (translated by Heidi Steimel) . (read abstract)

279 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2006, Cormarë No 10, Editor: Thomas Honegger and Frank Weinreich, ISBN 978-3-905703-03-0

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Cormare series, number 9 Tolkien and Modernity 1

Introduction :
Frank Weinreich & Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

Tolkien: A Man of his Time? :
Anna Vaninskaya . (read abstract)

Against Stereotype:
Éowyn and Lúthien as 20th-Century Women :
Maria Raffaella Benvenuto . (read abstract)

Politically Incorrect:
Tolkien, Women, and Feminism :
Laura Michel . (read abstract)

J.R.R. Tolkien:
A Simplicity Between the "Truly Earthy" and the "Absolutely Modern" :
Bertrand Alliot . (read abstract)

The Maker's Will Fulfilled? :
Jessica Burke & Anthony Burdge . (read abstract)

Brief Considerations on Determinism in Reality and Fiction :
Frank Weinreich . (read abstract)

"Man does as he is when he may do as he wishes"
The Perennial Modernity of Free Will :
Jason Fisher . (read abstract)

Freedom and Providence as Anti-Modern Elements? :
Thomas Fornet-Ponse . (read abstract)

Democracy in Middle-earth:
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings from a Socio-Political Perspective :
Alexander van de Bergh . (read abstract)

t.b.d. pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2006, Cormarë No 9, Editor: Thomas Honegger and Frank Weinreich, ISBN 978-3-905703-02-3

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Cormare series, number 8 Reconsidering Tolkien

Reconsidering the Linguistics of Middle-earth:
Invented Languages and Other Linguistic Features in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings :
Marion Gymnich . (read abstract)

Tolkien as Philo-Logist :
Eduardo Segura and Guillermo Peris . (read abstract)

Tolkien Through the Eyes of a Mediaevalist :
Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

Thoughts on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and History :
Paul E. Kerry . (read abstract)

The Knife, the Sting and the Tooth:
Manifestations of Shadow in The Lord of the Rings :
Natasa Tucev . (read abstract)

Mythic Space in Tolkien's Work
(The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion) :
Jean-Christophe Dufau . (read abstract)

Language, Lore and Learning in The Lord of the Rings :
Dirk Vanderbeke . (read abstract)

The Lord of the Rings in the Wake of the Great War:
War, Poetry, Modernism, and Ironic Myth :
Martin Simonson . (read abstract)

'A Man, lean, dark, tall':
Aragorn Seen Through Different Media :
Connie Veugen . (read abstract)

209 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2005, Cormarë No 8, Editor: Thomas Honegger, ISBN 978-3-905703-00-9

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Cormare series, number 7 Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The Spiritual Dimension in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien

Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The Spiritual Dimension in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien:
Christopher Garbowski. (read abstract)

209 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2004, Cormarë No 7, ISBN 978-3-9521424-8-6

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Cormare series, number 6 Translating Tolkien: Text and Film

The Westron Turned into Modern English:
The Translator and Tolkien's Web of Languages :
Thomas Honegger . (read abstract)

"The New One Wants to Assimilate the Alien."
Different Interpretatons of a Source Text as a Reason for Controversy: The 'Old' and the 'New' German Translation of The Lord of the Rings :
Rainer Nagel . (read abstract)

The Israeli Translation Controversy -
What About and Where To? :
Danny Orbach (with contributions by Yuval Kfir and Yuval Welis) . (read abstract)

Estne Tolkien Latine Reddendus?
A Light-Hearted Look at Some of the Challenges :
Richard Sturch . (read abstract)

Dutch Samizdat:
The Mensink - van Warmelo Translation of The Lord of the Rings :
Mark T. Hooker . (read abstract)

The Treatment of Proper Names in the German Edition(s) of The Lord of the Rings as an Example of Norms in Translation Practice :
Rainer Nagel . (read abstract)

Tolkien in Swedish Translation:
from Hompen to Ringarnas herre :
Anders Stentström . (read abstract)

Tolkien, Our Judge of Peter Jackson :
Vincent Ferré . (read abstract)

Humiliated Heroes:
Peter Jackson's Interpretation of The Lord of the Rings :
Anthony S. Burdge & Jessica Burke . (read abstract)

The Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings
A Critical Comment :
Øystein Høgset . (read abstract)

The Professor and the Director and Good vs. Evil in Middle-earth :
James Dunning . (read abstract)

The Soundtrack Lyrics of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings -
A Legitimate 'Translation' of Tolkien? :
Alexandra Velten . (read abstract)

238 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2004, Second edition 2011, Cormarë No 6, Editor: Thomas Honegger , ISBN 978-3-905703-16-0

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Cormare series, number 5 Tolkien Through Russian Eyes

Tolkien Through Russian Eyes :
Mark T. Hooker . (read abstract)

304 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2003 , Cormarë No 5, ISBN 978-3-9521424-7-9

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Cormare series, number 4 Tolkien in Translation

A Question of Style: On Translating The Silmarillion into Norwegian :
Nils Ivar Agøy . (read abstract)

Begging your pardon, Con el perdón de usted
Some Socio-Linguistic Features in The Lord of the Rings in English and Spanish :
Sandra Bayona . (read abstract)

Traduire Tolkien en français:
On the Translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Works into French and their Reception in France :
Vincent Ferré, Daniel Lauzon, David Riggs. . (read abstract)

Nine Russian Translations of The Lord of the Rings. :
Mark T. Hooker. . (read abstract)

The Treatment of Names in Esperanto Translations of Tolkien's Works. :
Arden R. Smith. . (read abstract)

A Theoretical Model for Tolkien Translation Criticism. :
Allan Turner. . (read abstract)

152 pages , Walking Tree Publishers 2003, Second edition 2011, Cormarë No 4, Editor: Thomas Honegger , ISBN 978-3-905703-15-3

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Four Christian Fantasists: A Study of the Fantastic Writings of George MacDonald, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Richard Sturch

132 pages, Walking Tree Publishers 2001, Cormarë Series No. 3, ISBN: 3-9521424-2-3.

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Root and Branch - Approaches towards Understanding Tolkien

The Monster, the Critics, and the Public : Literary Criticism after the Poll. Thomas Honegger.

The Man in the Moon : Structural Depth in Tolkien. Thomas Honegger. (read abstract)

Tolkien and his Critics : A Critique. Patrick Curry. (read abstract)

Re-enchanting Nature : Some Magic Links between Margaret Atwood and J.R.R. Tolkien. Christina Ljungberg Stuecklin. (read abstract)

179 pages,12 illustrations, Walking Tree Publishers 1999, Cormarë Series No. 2, ISBN: 3-9521424-1-7.

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News from the Shire and Beyond - Studies on Tolkien

Tolkien Studies : News from the Shire and Beyond Indeed. Peter Buchs and Thomas Honegger.

The Speech of the Individual and of the Community in The Lord of the Rings. Nils-Lennart Johanneson. (read abstract)

From Bag End to Lorien : the Creation of a Literary World.Thomas Honegger. (read abstract)

Middle Earth : The Collectible Card Game - Powerplay in the World of Tolkien. Patrick Näf. (read abstract)

Middle-earth : the Wizards - the Representation of Tolkien's World in Game. Peter Buchs. (read abstract)

?? pages, 2 illustrations and 6 maps, Walking Tree Publishers 1997, Cormarë Series No. 1, ISBN: 3-9521424-0-9.

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