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24th January 2011: Walking Tree Publishers in the OED
Walking Tree Publishers have made it onto the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. The actual entry reads:
dictionary-monger n. a lexicographer; a person who has dealings with dictionaries. |
The paper cited is John Garth's 'Tolkien, Exeter College and the Great War' published in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – Sources of Inspiration.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=45 )
23rd December 2010: Book with content by Wikipedia articles
It has come to our attention that a book has been published with the title Walking Tree Publishers and the subtitle Swiss Tolkien Society, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien Studies, Martin Simonson, Tom Shippey. On its cover, the book also claims to be "high quality content by Wikipedia articles".
Walking Tree Publishers point out hereweith that we were not involved in, consulted over, or aware of the book's publication. We advise any readers not to buy this book in error assuming it to be from Walking Tree Publishers. Readers wishing to read what Wikipedia has to say about Walking Tree Publishers are advised to consult the Wikipedia page directly (here). The Wikipedia page on Betascript publishing is here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/misc/wikipedia_articles.php )
17th December 2010: Books reviewed in Hither Shore
Issue 6 of Hither Shore, published earlier this year, reviews several of Walking Tree Publisher's recent publications. These reviews are now available online. You can access these by clicking on the covers of the reviewed books below, or by following this link.
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Tolkien's View |
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Sources of Inspiration |
How We Became Middle-earth |
Hither Shore is is the journal of the German Tolkien Society (DTG) and texts are reproduced here with the kind permission of the authors and publisher.
An overview page collecting links to all reviews available on this website can be found here.
The review of Tolkien's View linked above was previously announced on this website.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=43 )
9th December 2010: A Tolkienist Christmas present
Are you still looking for that ideal Christmas present for a Tolkienist, or somebody interested in Old English, or a collector?
Walking Tree Publisher's art book, Beowulf and the Dragon may be the answer. This is an opporunity to come closer to the text that Tolkien studied and from which he drew inspiration, set in an authentic Old English font and with the Modern English translation alongside.
The illustrated book, printed in high quality, is now available from the Tolkien Shop as well as from ADC Books or from us directly.
More information on Beowulf and the Dragon.
This book is available from the following sources:
From Tolkien Shop (direct link to this product here)
From ADC Books (direct link to this product here)
From Walking Tree Publishers (direct link to this product here)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=42 )
23rd October 2010: Call for papers - Tolkien's poetry
Fortunately for the field of Tolkien studies, the quality and quantity of academic monographs and papers on Tolkien have noticeably intensified over the last decade. However, next to other aspects of Tolkien's work that deserve more attention, one aspect that is of central importance for our understanding of Tolkien as author and literary mythmaker has only marginally been the subject of scholarly interest: Tolkien's poetry.
Although the few published essays on the topic have provided us with important insights into some of Tolkien's verse, we lack a broad study of Tolkien's poetry that can give us a far-reaching understanding of this author, who wrote more than a hundred poems, many of them specifically as cultural artefacts to add depth to his narrative works...
For more information, download the call for papers (pdf ca. 450kB, text version here).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=41 )
2nd September 2010: Beowulf at Oxonmoot
We have learnt that Anke Eissmann, illustrator and creator of our Beowulf and the Dragon book, will be attending Oxonmoot (24-26 September) and holding a signing session for the book there. She will also display some of her original artwork from the creation of this book.
Beowulf and the Dragon is a high-quality art book featuring the original Old English (Anglo Saxon) text of the 'dragon episode' from Beowulf in a beatiful and authentic font, with the Modern English translation (by John Porter) set alongside. The book is illustrated by Anke Eissmann, and has a foreword by Tom Shippey. The book is printed to a high quality and bound in hardback with only 500 copies being produced. Dimensions approx. 30 by 23 cm (12 by 9 inches), 84 pages.
Related links:
More information on Beowulf and the Dragon (with pictures and sample pages).
Information on Oxonmoot can be found on the Tolkien Society web pages.
Anke Eissmann's web pages, with a page on the background and creation of Bewoulf and the Dragon.
At Oxonmoot, the book is being sold by ADC Books (see also previous news item).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=40 )
31st August 2010: ADC Books, Beowulf and the Dragon
We are pleased to announce that the Gloucestershire-based online bookseller and Tolkien specialist, ADC Books, now stocks our art edition of Beowulf and the Dragon.
ADC's stocking of the books will greatly improve its accessibility and distribution. Due to its conventional printing method and small production run (only 500 copies), the book is not readily available through many of our other sales channels.
ADC Books writes:
At long last, here we find the excellent illustrations of Anke Eissmann, alongside the poem they were based upon. The combination here of Old English poem, Anglo-Saxon font (see pic 3), modern translation by John Porter alongside, and pictorial representation by Anke Eissmann, creates a multi-media experience to bring the Beowulf poem's "lost third" back to prominence - and give both dragon and greybeard-hero once again their due. These last thousand lines of the poem, often skipped or summarised when studying from line I, contain much that is finest in the poem, besides the dragon: the vivid account of the death of the terrible old Swedish King Ongentheow, one of the most focussed battle-pieces in Old English; Beowulf's three death-speeches, which range between grief, regret and pride, and end with four lines of more-than-stoic resignation; and the theme of the Last Survivor, the man who leaves the treasure for the dragon to make his own. |
The website of ADC books is www.adcbooks.co.uk (or direct link to Beowulf and the Dragon). Of course ADC Books also stocks some of our other publications and can also obtain those it doesn't stock.
ADC Books will also be attending this year's Oxonmoot (24-26 September) and be selling the book there.
More information on Beowulf and the Dragon from Walking Tree Publishers.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=39 )
27th July 2010: Chat with Tom Shippey
tolkien-buecher.de has organised a web chat with the celebrated Tolkien expert, Professor Tom Shippey. The chat will take place on Friday 27th August (exact time to be announced) and will mark the publication of the German translation of Sigurd and Gudrún. For more information see this announcement (in German) on tolkien-buecher.de (external links).
Tom Shippey is best known for his books The Road to Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century but has also written for the Walking Tree Publishers. The Cormarë Series book Roots and Branches is a collection of his essays. Further contributions are "New Learning and New Ignorance: Magia, Goeteia, and the Inklings" (published in Myth and Magic) and his foreword to Beowulf and the Dragon.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=38 )
15th June 2010: More pictures of Jena conference
Further pictures from the Jena conference are posted on the Hannohirrim website on this and this page (external links).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=37 )
Related announcements:
Tolkien Seminar pictures, Tolkien Seminar website online, past conferences.
4th May 2010: Reviews of Tolkien's View
Two reviews of J.S. Ryan's book, Tolkien's View: Windows into his World have been added to this website. One was written by Jason Fisher and published in Hither Shore Volume 6. The other, by Thomas Fornet-Ponse, in Inklings-Jahrbuch 27 (the latter review is in German).
Read the Hither Shore review.
Read the Inklings-Jahrbuch review.
More information on Tolkien's View: Windows into his World.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=36 )
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