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3rd January 2010: Your chance to win Music in Middle-earth.
The website Tolkien Bücher is running a competition, whose prizes include a copy of the Walking Tree Publishers' latest book, Music in Middle-earth. To participate, please visit the competition page (in German) of tolkien-buecher.de (external links).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=29 )
3rd January 2010: Tolkien Birthday Toast.
On this day 118 years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. It has become a tradition among the Tolkien Community to mark the great author's birthday by a toast. For more information on this, please visit the 2010 Toast page of the Tolkien Society (external links).
Happy Birthday Professor!
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=28 )
3rd January 2010: Music in Middle-earth now available.
The latest (and 20th) addition to the Cormarë Series, Music in Middle-earth is now available. This collection of 14 papers looks at different aspects of song and music in (and inspired by) Middle-earth. The 311 page volume was edited by Heidi Steimel and Friedhelm Schneidewind.
For more information on this publication (including a table of contents), please visit our Music in Middle-earth page.
Also available in German ...
A German version of this book is being released in parallel by Edition Stein und Baum under the title Musik in Mittelerde. For more information on this volume, please visit the website of Edition Stein und Baum and their Musik in Mittelerde page (external links).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=27 )
23rd December 2009: Beowulf and the Dragon now available
Walking Tree Publishers are proud to announce that Beowulf and the Dragon is now available.
The book features the Old English text of the "Dragon Episode" from Beowulf, presented side by side with the John Porter's Modern English translation. The foreword is by Tom Shippey and the episode is richly illustrated by Anke Eissmann. The 84 page book is bound in hardback and will appeal to collectors, linguists and Tolkienists alike.
For more information on Beowulf and the Dragon, including some sample pages, please visit this website's Beowulf and the Dragon page.
Our prices are 36 Pounds, 57 U.S. Dollars, 40 Euros or 60 Swiss Francs, exclusive of shipping and subject to change. These prices are for direct sales from the Walking Tree Publishers. Prices charged by retailers may differ.
Further information on this book project, its background and origin is presented on Anke Eissmann's website
(anke.edoras-art.de/anke_beowulf.html).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=26 )
December 2009: Tolkien Seminar 2010 in Jena
Walking Tree Publishers are pleased to announce that they will be co-operating with the German Tolkien Society (Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft) in their 2010 Tolkien Seminar, "Tolkien and Romanticism".
The conference will take place from 23rd to 25th April 2010 at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (Germany).
Link to the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft.
Among those planning to attend the conference is the celebrated Tolkien expert, Dr. Patrick Curry. His papers include several that were published by Walking Tree Publishers: "Enchantment in Tolkien and Middle-earth", "Iron Crown, Iron Cage" and "Tolkien and his Critics: A Critique".
Information on past conferences (co-)organised or supported by Walking Tree Publishers is available here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=25 )
December 2009: Interview with Heidi Steimel on Music in Middle-earth
The website tolkien-buecher.de has published an interview with Heidi Steimel on the forthcoming book Music in Middle-earth, of which she is co-editor and which will shortly be published by Walking Tree Publishers.
The interview is available in English and in German.
The illustration above, Daeron and Lúthien, is by Anke Eißmann and will feature on the cover of Music in Middle-earth.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=24 )
November 2009: Anke Eißmann speaks about Beowulf
An interview with Anke Eißmann has been published on the tolkien-buecher.de website. In the interview, Anke speaks about her Tolkien illustrations, her artwork in general, and her upcoming book Beowulf and the Dragon, which is being published by Walking Tree Publishers. The interview is available in English and in German.
For more information on the Beowulf and the Dragon book, click here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=23 )
November 2009: Beowulf. Old English Text and Translation of the 'Dragon Episode'
Walking Tree Publishers are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a luxury edition of the 'Dragon Episode' from Beowulf. The Old English text and translation will be presented side by side, with illustrations by Anke Eissmann (who has worked with the Walking Tree Publishers on numerous occasions in the past). Some of the Beowulf artwork can be previewed on Anke's home page (anke.edoras-art.de/anke_beowulf.html).
The introduction will be written by Tom Shippey.
More details on this book will duly be presented on this page.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=22 )
August 2009: Latest publication
Tolkien's View: Windows into his World contains a number of selected essays by Professor J.S. Ryan, for their most part originally published over three decades from the 1960s to the 1990s, on the theme of J.R.R. Tolkien and his works. Having himself studied under Professor Tolkien at the time of the publication of his masterwork... (read more)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=21 )
July 2009: Taking a look inside our books
To help readers make up their minds before buying, Walking Tree Publishers are permitting website visitors to download sample pages from their books. The first book in this scheme is Martin Simonson's monography, The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition.
The downloads for this book are available here. Downloads for further books will be linked from the individual book-abstract pages as they are added.
The pages are also included in this website's text search scope.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=20 )
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