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24th January 2021: Podcast by Hamish Williams
Hamish Williams, editor of Tolkien and the Classical World, has produced a podcast in which he discusses the publication with some of the contributors.
Alternatively the podcast can be opened directly on YouTube here:
youtube.com/watch?v=8MrLEX_yNSQ
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=170 )
23rd January 2021: New publication, Tolkien and the Classical World
We are pleased to announce our latest publication Tolkien and the Classical World, edited by Hamish Williams.
While scholars have often cited the influence of medieval texts and society on J.R.R. Tolkien's seminal fantasy creations, the role of the classical world – the literature and thought of ancient Greece and Rome – has received far less attention.
This volume of essays explores various ways in which Tolkien's literary creations were shaped by classical epic, myth, poetry, history, philosophy, drama, and language. In making such connections, the contributors to this volume are interested not simply in source-hunting but in how a reception of the classical world can shape the meaning we derive from Tolkien's masterworks.
The contributions to this volume by Philip Burton, Łukasz Neubauer, Giuseppe Pezzini, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Graham Shipley, and several other scholars should pave the way for further discussions between classical studies and fantasy studies.
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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=169 )
20th January 2021: Beyond Bree reviews Middle-earth or There and Back Again
A review of Middle-earth or There and Back Again has been published by Beyond Bree.
Read the review here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=168 )
20th January 2021: Two reviews of Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond
Two further reviews of Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond have been published.
Mythlore vol 39 has published a review by Megan N. Fontenot and Beyond Bree published a review by Eduardo Boheme Kumamoto in issue October 20.
All reviews of this book can be seen here.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=167 )
10th December 2020: Sub-creating Arda shortlisted for Mythopoeic Award
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2020 Mythopoeic Awards. And our publication, Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies is shortlisted.
The finalists page on the website of the Mythopoeic Society is here.
http://www.mythsoc.org/news/news-2020-12-08.htm
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=166 )
19th July 2020: New publication, Middle-earth or There and Back Again
We are pleased to announce our latest publication Middle-earth or There and Back Again , edited by Łukasz Neubauer.
The world of Tolkien's imagination is a virtually boundless universe, one in which multiple layers of cultural heritage revolve around his enduring passion for storytelling, fascination with languages and devotion to the Catholic faith. In effect, much of his fiction is an eclectic, though, at the same time, remarkably coherent, mixture in which certain elements of the old lore appear to be constantly reinvented, reimagined and reinterpreted to suit the tastes of the Professor's readers and listeners. It is a constant mediation between the world of the past (ancient, medieval or other) and the world in which he lived, an informed dialogue tinted by the writer's personal convictions and beliefs. (read more ...)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=165 )
18th July 2020: Tolkien Seminar postponed
In view of risks and restrictions surrounding the Corona virus, the Tolkien Seminar, which should have been held in Augsburg from 23rd to 25th October 2020, has been postponed to 2021. The seminar topic, Tolkien and Politics remains unchanged. Date and location are still to be announced.
List of past (and planned) conferences with Walking Tree Publishers involvement.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/20_augsburg.php )
17th July 2020: Many reviews
Several reviews of our publications have been published (thirteen in total, covering six publications).
Tolkien and Philosophy has been reviewed in Mythlore Vol.38 Iss.2. (review here).
Pagan Saints in Middle-earth has been reviewed in both Journal of Inklings Studies Vol.10 Iss.1 (review here) and Fafnir, The Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (review here).
Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond has been reviewed in the Journal of Tolkien Research Vol.8 Iss.1 (review here).
Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies has been reviewed in KULT_online (Uni Giessen) (review here), in CERAE (Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies) (review here) as well as in Beyond Bree December 2019.
"Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R.Tolkien in the Great War has been reviewed four times: In the Journal of Tolkien Research Vol.8 Iss.1 (review here), Mythlore 38.1 (review here), and twice in Beyond Bree, in December '19 and April '20.
Tolkien and the Classics has been reviewed in both the Journal of Inklings Studies Vol.10 Iss.1 (review here) and in the Journal of Tolkien Research Vol.8 Iss.1 (review here).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=163 )
15th July 2020: Ryder W. Miller RIP
It is with great regret that we have learnt of the death of Ryder W. Miller (1965-2020). Miller regularly contrbuted reviews of our publications. He passed away on 15th March.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=162 )
11th March 2020: Call for papers Tolkien Conference 2020
The 17th Tolkien Conference will be held at the University of Augsburg from 23rd to 25th October 2020. The topic is Tolkien and Politics. A call for papers can be downloaded here (pdf).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/20_augsburg.php )
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