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20th June 2011: Rare signed and hand illustrated copy of Beowulf and the Dragon for sale

It has been brought to our attention that a rare signed edition of Beowulf and the Dragon, autogrammed and hand illustrated on the title page by the book's artist, Anke Eißmann, is being offered for sale by the bookseller Antiquariat Bücherwelten in Düsseldorf. The photograph (left) taken from the bookseller's website, shows the hand-sketched illustration and signature.

The following link takes you directly to this rare book's listing on Abebooks: here. Antiquariat Bücherwelten also stocks some other items from Anke Eißmann (all the above links are to external websites).

More information on Beowulf and the Dragon.

Other booksellers stocking Beowulf and the Dragon are listed here.

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=49 )

9th May 2011: Review of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Sources of Inspiration

A review of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Sources of Inspiration has been published in Mythlore (journal of the Mythopoeic Society). The review can be read here.

Mythlore is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published by the Mythopoeic Society that focuses on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the genres of myth and fantasy.

Link to the website of the Mythopoeic Society.

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=48 )

27th April 2011: Tolkien and the Middle Ages

Tolkien and the Middle Ages poster Potsdam 2011 This year's Tolkien Seminar (Tolkien and the Middle Ages / Tolkien und das Mittelalter) will be held at the University of Potsdam from 29th April to 1st May 2011. The (updated) programme can be downloaded here, and the seminar poster, designed by Anke Eißmann, here (pdf, ca. 630KB).

More information on the event is available from DTG here (external website).

To link to this announcement:
http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/11_potsdam.php

Information on past conferences is available here.

Anke Eißmann's website (external link)

15th March 2011: Tolkien Seminar 2011, Potsdam

This year's Tolkien Seminar will be held in the University of Potsdam (Germany) from 29th April to 1st May 2011. The topic will be Tolkien and the Middle Ages. The event is organised by Deutsche Tolkiengesellschaft (DTG) and will be supported by Walking Tree Publishers. As in past Tolkien Seminars, some papers will be presented in English and others in German.

Download a provisonal programme here (pdf).

More information on the event is available from DTG here (external website).

The website of DTG is here (external site).

To link to this website's latest announcement on the 2011 Tolkien Seminar:
http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/11_potsdam.php

Information on past conferences is available here.

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.

1758 J. REED Madrigal & Trulletta I. i. 3, I cannot.. forbear taking notice of the negligence of our *dictionary-mongers, in omitting the explanation of the word intire; or, as it is frequently written entire, in the sense I have now used it.

1818 M. R. MITFORD in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 27 After the fashion of certain dictionary-mongers who ring the changes upon two words.

2008 J. GARTH in S. Caldecott & T. Honegger Tolkien's Lord of Rings 25 Tolkien was already an inveterate dictionary-monger; his sole contribution to Exeter's ungergraduate suggestions book was for the purchase of 'a good English dictionary'.

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.


	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.