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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)
February 2008: Latest publication
The Lord of the Rings and the
Western Narrative Tradition
Martin Simonson
When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950´s it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an unwelcome reappearance of narrative standards that modernism was supposed to have done away with, or just a bad novel. Others considered it a refreshing... (read more)
January 2008:
Following the success of last year's conference, the Walking Tree Publishers are pleased to announce that they will this year again be holding such an event. This year's title is:
'In a hole in the ground ...'
– The Hobbit or Here We Go Again
The conference will be held at the same place it was last year, the University of Jena (Germany) from 25 to 27 April 2008.
The event is co-hosted with DTG.
Contributors from many different countries will take part, speaking on a broad range of aspects relating to Tolkien's best known children's book.
November 2007: Information on three new books added:
How We Became Middle-earth, edited by Adam Lam and Nataliya Oryshchuk
Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings , edited by Eduardo Segura and Thomas Honegger
The Silmarillion: 30 years on , edited by Allan Turner
October 2007: A call for papers has been posted for the DTG Decennial Seminar 07 to be held in Jena, Germany, 25-27 April 2008. This call for papers is also available in German.
October 2007: Walking Tree Publishers now have their own internet domain: www.walking-tree.org. The opportuntity has been used to freshen the website up a little. The previous design had remained basically unchanged since the website was launched in 1999.
June 2007: Information on two new books added:
February 2007: The programme of the Decenary Conference (to be held in Jena, Germany 4-6 May 2007) is now online.
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