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25th November 2024: Review of Binding Them All

Binding them all Interdisciplinary Perspectives on JRR Tolkien and His Works has been reviewed by Troels Forchhammer in Mythlore Vol.43. No.1 (2024), pages 321-23.

Link to the review on SWOSU Digital Commons: dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3323&context=mythlore (pdf file).

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19th November 2024: Problems with website

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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=228 )

26th September 2024: Celebrating Tolkien's Legacy

celebrating tolkiens legacy Walking Tree Publishers are proud to announce the publication of Celebrating Tolkien's Legacy by Nancy Bunting, Seamus Hamill-Keays and Toby Widdicombe.

Fifty years after the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, these essays look at Tolkien's own history in relation to his fiction and where Tolkien studies may go in the next few decades and what issues it needs to address.

Celebrating Tolkien's Legacy
Nancy Bunting, Seamus Hamill-Keays and Toby Widdicombe
Cormarë Series No. 52

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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=227 )

26th September 2024: Tolkien Seminar 2024 in Aachen

Tolkien Conference 2024 Aachen

The 2024 DTG Tolkien Conference (with support of Walking Tree Publishers) will be held at the University of Aachen, Germany on 11 to 13th October 2024. The conference topic is "Tolkien and his Editors / Tolkien und seine Herausgeber;innen".

Please also See Tolkien Seminar (on DTG website).

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/24_aachen.php )

2nd September 2024: Winner of Mythopoeic Fantasy Award

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (in the Inklings Studies category) has been won by José María Miranda Boto for his monograph Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works.

The Walking Tree Publishers congratulate Miranda Boto on this prestigious recognition.

Miranda Boto's acceptance speech is shared below:

It is the most unexpected of honors for me to have been awarded the 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Inklings Studies. Being a Spaniard and a lawyer, two strange characteristics that had never been present in a winner beforehand, I feel like a little Hobbit who is admitted to the Council of the Wise.

My first thanks, naturally, must go to the Jury, who has made happy someone who writes about Tolkien as a hobby and not as trade.

My second thanks go to Tom Shippey, who endorsed my work with his prestige, giving me the most beautiful of the prologues. I still can't believe that I have joined him, and so many other distinguished scholars such as Verlyn Flieger, in the Halls of this Award.

Next in my gratitude is Peter Buchs, editor of Walking Tree, who in Birmingham in 2019 considered that my topic could lead to an interesting book for a reader who does not live in court.

I conclude by thanking all the friends who accompanied me during the writing of the book, providing numerous observations that made it a much more complete work than what I had achieved. Everyone will understand that I distinguish among them Friar José Anido, who has found his own role as an inhabitant of my footnotes.

The ultimate thanks go to my wife. Without her, and her patience, and the sacrifice of our shared leisure time, none of this could have been achieved.

With this award, the three functions of Fantasy become reality for me: recovery, escape, consolation. Thank you so much. Muchas gracias.

Past winners of the award are listed on the following page of the Mythopoeic Society: www.mythsoc.org/awards/awards-winners.htm

More on Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works:

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Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=225 )

2nd September 2024: Review of Germanic Heroes

Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium has been reviewed in the Journal of Tolkien Research Vol. 19, Iss. 1.

The review by Andrew Higgins is linked here (hosted on website of the Journal of Tolkien Research.

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=224 )

2nd September 2024: Review of The Romantic Spirit

The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien has been reviewed in Beyond Bree July 2024. The review by Nancy Bunting is reproduced here with kind permission.

Beyond Bree is the journal of the Tolkien Special Interest Group of American Mensa: beyondbree.org

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=223 )

3rd May 2024: Tolkien and His Editors

Call for papers, DTG Conference 2024

A call for papers has been issued for the 2024 DTG Conference. The topic of this years's conference is "Tolkien and His Editors". The conference will be held from 11 to 13 October 2024 at RWTH Aachen, Germany.

More information on DTG website.

This website's latest update on this event (link will update when new items posted).

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=222 )

30th April 2024: Richard Gallant receives award

Richard Z. Gallant has been awarded the 2024 Inklingspreis for his doctoral thesis (in the category of scientific contributions). The Inklingspreis is awarded by Inklings-Gesellschaft für Literatur und Ästhetik e.V.

Gallant's thesis is published by Walking Tree Publishers: Germanic Heroes, Courage and Fate: Northern Narratives of J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium.

Source: (in German) inklings-gesellschaft.de/2024/03/der-inklingspreis-2024-geht-an

The Walking Tree Publishers congratulate Dr Gallant on his success.

(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=221 )

30th April 2024: The Songs of the Spheres now published

songs of the spheres The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination (edited by Łukasz Neubauer and Gugliemo Spirito), is now available.

This book was previously announced here.

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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=220 )

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