2nd July 2023: New publication, Tweaking Things a Little
"World-building, name-finding, language-crafting; the flaws in chivalric practice, and the ethics (Machiavellian and otherwise) that produce the moral complexities of Middle-earth and the Known World are thus the topics that Tweaking Things a Little considers. The modest title belies what lies within these covers: nimble readings, profound knowledge of the medieval world, original and provocative reading of both books and the TV show await the reader here. Pointing both back in time to the medieval underpinnings of Tolkien's creation and outwards to the contemporary world that informs Martin's pragmatic and politically astute thinking, these essays enthral, astonish and challenge. Best of all, they encourage us to journey back into Middle-earth and the Known World, with newly opened eyes and ears, to rediscover their wonders anew."
Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval European Literature (University of Oxford), author of Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of 'Game of Thrones' (2015) and All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in 'Game of Thrones' (2021).
About the author: Thomas Honegger is Professor for English Medieval Studies at the Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena (Germany).
The 2023 DTG Tolkien Conference (with support of Walking Tree Publishers) will be held at the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen, Germany on 27 to 29th October 2023. The conference topic is "With other eyes: The Visualisation Tolkien's Work / Mit anderen Augen: Die Visualisierung von Tolkiens Werk".
Catching up on some earlier book reviews, here are four that were published in Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research over recent years.
These links take you directly to the relevant pages on the Fafnir website.