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19th August 2021: New publication, The Gallant Edith Bratt
We are pleased to announce our latest publication The Gallant Edith Bratt, by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays.
Who was Edith Bratt? Millions saw Hollywood's fantasy version of J.R.R. Tolkien's one and only love, Edith Bratt, in the 2019 movie, Tolkien. Fact, though, is stranger than fiction, and more interesting. Edith's story reveals a gallant heroine suffering under "The Shadow of the Past." Edith was Ronald's "lover," and much like her mother, Edith risked all for the man she loved. New research finds a financially independent and strong woman who was not only John Ronald's equal, but his muse, his anchor of stability in the present, and his hope for the future.
Admirers, enthusiasts, and students of Tolkien will find much new material to enrich their understanding and appreciation of Tolkien. Placing the development of John Ronald Tolkien's Elvish languages, mythology, and art during the crucial years of 1916-18 in a new biographical context that includes the importance and significance of Edith Bratt culminates in the pivotal story of Lúthien and Beren with new unsuspected sources and the complementary artwork of The Fair Towns of Holy Tol Eressëa. A fresh awareness of the compelling and pervasive influence and effect of Tolkien's biography on his oeuvre suggests new views and possibilities for further investigations.
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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=174 )
23rd March 2021: Call for papers Tolkien Conference 2021
A call for papers has been issued for the 2021 Tolkien Conference, which will be held in Marburg from 29-21 October 2021. the topic is Tolkien and Politics.
The call for papers can be read here or on the website of the DTG (here).
The topic has been postponed from the 2020 conference, which had to be cancelled due to the pandemic.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/21_marburg.php )
23rd March 2021: Review of Middle-earth, or There and Back Again
Additionally to the previous review mentioned, the Journal of Tolkien Research (vol 11, issue 2), also features a review of Middle-earth, or There and Back Again.
Link to review here (on web page of Journal of Tolkien Research)
More information on Middle-earth, or There and Back Again here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=172 )
22nd March 2021: Review of Tolkien and the Classical World
A review of Tolkien and the Classical World has been published in Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 11, Issue 2.
Link to review here (on web page of Journal of Tolkien Research)
More information on Tolkien and the Classical World here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=171 )
24th January 2021: Podcast by Hamish Williams
Hamish Williams, editor of Tolkien and the Classical World, has produced a podcast in which he discusses the publication with some of the contributors.
Alternatively the podcast can be opened directly on YouTube here:
youtube.com/watch?v=8MrLEX_yNSQ
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=170 )
23rd January 2021: New publication, Tolkien and the Classical World
We are pleased to announce our latest publication Tolkien and the Classical World, edited by Hamish Williams.
While scholars have often cited the influence of medieval texts and society on J.R.R. Tolkien's seminal fantasy creations, the role of the classical world – the literature and thought of ancient Greece and Rome – has received far less attention.
This volume of essays explores various ways in which Tolkien's literary creations were shaped by classical epic, myth, poetry, history, philosophy, drama, and language. In making such connections, the contributors to this volume are interested not simply in source-hunting but in how a reception of the classical world can shape the meaning we derive from Tolkien's masterworks.
The contributions to this volume by Philip Burton, Łukasz Neubauer, Giuseppe Pezzini, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Graham Shipley, and several other scholars should pave the way for further discussions between classical studies and fantasy studies.
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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=169 )
20th January 2021: Beyond Bree reviews Middle-earth or There and Back Again
A review of Middle-earth or There and Back Again has been published by Beyond Bree.
Read the review here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=168 )
20th January 2021: Two reviews of Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond
Two further reviews of Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond have been published.
Mythlore vol 39 has published a review by Megan N. Fontenot and Beyond Bree published a review by Eduardo Boheme Kumamoto in issue October 20.
All reviews of this book can be seen here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=167 )
10th December 2020: Sub-creating Arda shortlisted for Mythopoeic Award
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2020 Mythopoeic Awards. And our publication, Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies is shortlisted.
The finalists page on the website of the Mythopoeic Society is here.
http://www.mythsoc.org/news/news-2020-12-08.htm
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=166 )
19th July 2020: New publication, Middle-earth or There and Back Again
We are pleased to announce our latest publication Middle-earth or There and Back Again , edited by Łukasz Neubauer.
The world of Tolkien's imagination is a virtually boundless universe, one in which multiple layers of cultural heritage revolve around his enduring passion for storytelling, fascination with languages and devotion to the Catholic faith. In effect, much of his fiction is an eclectic, though, at the same time, remarkably coherent, mixture in which certain elements of the old lore appear to be constantly reinvented, reimagined and reinterpreted to suit the tastes of the Professor's readers and listeners. It is a constant mediation between the world of the past (ancient, medieval or other) and the world in which he lived, an informed dialogue tinted by the writer's personal convictions and beliefs. (read more ...)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=165 )
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