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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.
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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)
March 2008: Latest publication
Tolkien's Shorter Works
edited by Margaret Hiley & Frank Weinreich
Proceedings of the 2007 Jena conference
Tolkien’s Middle-earth and its legendarium have drawn extensive scholarly attention. But there is more to Tolkien than the history and legends of Middle-earth, and there has hitherto been a certain lack of academic criticism focused primarily on his shorter fictional works Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of... (read more)
Today's selection ...
The Treatment of Proper Names in the German Edition(s) of The Lord of the Rings as an Example of Norms in Translation Practice
Rainer Nagel
The translation of proper names in literature has always been regarded as a problem area both by translators and linguists, especially when an author uses telling names to illustrate particular plot aspects. In most cases, translators are ... (read more)
(A different book or paper from our portfolio is featured here every day. This publication is featured on 20th November 2008. Click here if this is not today's version.)
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