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2nd September 2010: Beowulf at Oxonmoot
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 the 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 in a beatiful and authentic font, with the Modern English translation 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 )
Today's selection ...
Music in Middle-earth
From the Grand Theme that the Ainur played before Ilúvatar at
the beginning of the world, to the various songs encountered or
sung by the characters of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings,
the world that J.R.R. Tolkien ... (read more)
(A different book or paper from our portfolio is featured here every day. This publication is featured on 3rd September 2010. Click here if this is not today's version.)
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