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Inside Language, Second edition

19th December 2011: Second edition of Inside Language

Walking Tree Publishers are pleased to anounce the publication of a second edition of Inside Language, Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien by Ross Smith.

The entire text has been thoroughly revised and a detailed index has been added. In addition, new material has been incorporated and a number of passages have been reworked in search of greater consistency. The result is a second edition which builds on the strengths of the first to achieve a more robust and coherent work. (read more)

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=60 )

Tolkien in Translation and Translating Tolkien: Text and Film, Second editions

20th November 2011: Second edition of translation volumes

In 2003, Walking Tree Publishers released, Tolkien in Translation. The volume looked at different challenges facing Tolkien translators and discussed the translations of Tolkien into a variety of languages. The following year, the book was joined by a second volume, Translating Tolkien: Text and Film, expanding on the subject whilst also looking at a different form of translation: the adaption of Tolkien's works for the cinema – a very topical matter in view of the (then) recent release of Peter Jackson's movie.

Translating Tolkien: Text and Film has been out of print for some time now, and stocks of Tolkien in Translation have also been running low. Walking Tree Publishers are pleased to announce that both volumes have now been reprinted. Their reprinting also marks the completion of an eight-year transition to the print-on-demand format for the Cormarë Series, meaning they will not run out of print again so easily. The format also facilitates availability and distribution through the use of local printing in different locations across the globe.

The opportunity has been taken to make various smaller corrections to the texts while transferring them to our new layout. Cover illustrations were provided by Anke Eißmann.

Information on these volumes is presented on the pages below:

• Tolkien in Tranlsation, Thomas Honegger (editor), Cormarë Series 4, Walking Tree Publishers 2003, Second edition 2011.

• Translating Tolkien: Text and Film, Thomas Honegger (editor), Cormarë Series 6, Walking Tree Publishers 2004, Second edition 2011.

The picture below shows the old and new editions of both books.

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=56 )

The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams

2nd November 2011: The Loss and the Silence now available.

Walking Tree Publishers are pleased to announce the release of our latest publication: The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams by Margaret Hiley.

Traditionally, the "Inklings" C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams have been seen as separate from the literature of their time: as innovative in an idiosyncratic way at best, and as reactionary and in deliberate opposition to contemporary progressive writing at worst. Recent years have seen a gradual change in this view, but few studies to date have attempted to read Lewis, Tolkien and ... (read more)

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=55 )

The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien

3rd August 2011: The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien now available.

Walking Tree Publishers are pleased to announce a new publication: The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien by Liam Campbell.

A new death for the old world, winds of industrial change that gust across green hills and dales, machines and callous hearts that dig deep into the ecosystems of Earth as trees crash upon the shrinking forest floors and ecological devastation is visited upon the land. This is the darkest hour of Middle-earth as presented in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – how curiously all of this resembles our reality, and the environmental crisis that threatens the modern world... (read more)

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=53 )

Music in Middle-earth

3rd January 2010: Music in Middle-earth now available.

The latest (and 20th) addition to the Cormarë Series, Music in Middle-earth is now available. This collection of 14 papers looks at different aspects of song and music in (and inspired by) Middle-earth. The 311 page volume was edited by Heidi Steimel and Friedhelm Schneidewind.

For more information on this publication (including a table of contents), please visit our Music in Middle-earth page.

Also available in German ...

A German version of this book is being released in parallel by Edition Stein und Baum under the title Musik in Mittelerde. For more information on this volume, please visit the website of Edition Stein und Baum and their Musik in Mittelerde page (external links).

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=27 )

Beowulf and the Dragon

23rd December 2009: Beowulf and the Dragon now available

Walking Tree Publishers are proud to announce that Beowulf and the Dragon is now available.

The book features the Old English text of the "Dragon Episode" from Beowulf, presented side by side with the John Porter's Modern English translation. The foreword is by Tom Shippey and the episode is richly illustrated by Anke Eissmann. The 84 page book is bound in hardback and will appeal to collectors, linguists and Tolkienists alike.

For more information on Beowulf and the Dragon, including some sample pages, please visit this website's Beowulf and the Dragon page.

Our prices are 36 Pounds, 57 U.S. Dollars, 40 Euros or 60 Swiss Francs, exclusive of shipping and subject to change. These prices are for direct sales from the Walking Tree Publishers. Prices charged by retailers may differ.

Further information on this book project, its background and origin is presented on Anke Eissmann's website
(anke.edoras-art.de/anke_beowulf.html).

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=26 )

Tolkien's View: Windows into his World

August 2009: Latest publication

Tolkien's View: Windows into his World contains a number of selected essays by Professor J.S. Ryan, for their most part originally published over three decades from the 1960s to the 1990s, on the theme of J.R.R. Tolkien and his works. Having himself studied under Professor Tolkien at the time of the publication of his masterwork... (read more)

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=21 )

Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – Sources of Inspiration

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)

Tolkien's Shorter Works

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)

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