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Are you fascinated by Middle-earth?
Do you wish for a greater understanding of Tolkien's place in literature, his sources, his motivations, his beliefs; those who inspired him and those he inspired, the languages and the world he created and the reactions he provoked?
The Walking Tree Publishers collect and publish essays, papers and monographs from a broad range of different authors covering an equally diverse palette of topics, ranging from linguistics to theology.
Make this page your starting place for secondary literature on Tolkien.
Latest news ...
March 2009: Tolkien Seminar 2009 in Hannover
This year's Tolkien Seminar will be held in the Leibniz University in Hannover from 24th to 26th April. The topic will be Conflict, Violence and War in Tolkien / Konflikt, Gewalt und Krieg bei Tolkien. The event is organised by the German Tolkien Society (DTG) with support and co-operation of the Walking Tree Publsihers.
The programme is available from the DTG website at http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/ deutsche-tolkien-gesellschaft/ tolkien-seminar-2/ tolkien-seminar-2009 .
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=16 )
May 2008: Call for papers
Music in Middle-earth
Music plays an important role in Tolkien’s mythology, and his stories include many songs as well as references to musicians and instruments. Though numerous melodies for his poems have been composed, sung, played and recorded, secondary literature on Middle-earth hardly mentions the subject. This fascinating topic provides ample scope for academic exploration of various aspects of the significance and nature of music in Tolkien’s works, which can extend from general areas such as the power of music or the art of music to today’s interpretations of Middle-earth music.
If you are interested in contributing, or would like to learn more about this book project, please download this pdf (circa 100KB).
Music in Middle-earth will simultaneously be published in German by Edition Stein und Baum under the title Musik in Mittelerde.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/call/music_in_middle-earth.php )
April 2008: Latest publication
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – Sources of Inspiration
edited by Stratford Caldecott and Thomas Honegger
In the year after his graduation from Exeter College, Oxford, the great mythopoeic work for which he would become famous was already germinating in Tolkien's mind. In August 2006 the College offered a week of seminars and papers by leading international specialists on Tolkien's Exeter years, the... (read more)
Today's selection ...
A Star Above the Mast:
Tolkien, Faërie and the Great Escape
Anna E. Slack
This paper begins with the notion that man has at his core a desire to make
‘the Great Escape’ into another world. This paper posits that by reflecting
the eternal world, the secondary world of Faërie holds echoes of ... (read more)
(A different book or paper from our portfolio is featured here every day. This publication is featured on 5th July 2009. Click here if this is not today's version.)
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