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30th April 2024: The Songs of the Spheres now published
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 )
29th March 2024: Announcing forthcoming publication: The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a volume on Lewis and Tolkien, edited by Łukasz Neubauer and Gugliemo Spirito. If all goes go plan, publication is anticipated for mid April. All announcements pertaining to this volume are collected here.
About this publication
To celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (16 October 1950), the editors of this volume have invited contributions that aim at critically reflecting upon the similarities and, no less importantly, the differences in the two writers' approaches to the works that came to impregnate their vivid imaginations. The thematic axis of the papers is, therefore, Lewis's best-known work of fiction, The Chronicles of Narnia, either as a whole or as a selection of individual volumes and/or episodes set in the World Beyond the Wardrobe, always, however, in connection with Tolkien's own (sub)creative projects. The papers themselves deal with such diverse fields of academic research as literature, theology, philosophy etc.
More information
The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination
Cormarë Series 48, ISBN 978-3-905703-48-1.
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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=219 )
27th March 2024: Mallorn reviews Tweaking Things a Little
A review by Kristine Larsen of Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin, has been publihed in Mallorn 64 Winter 2023.
Link to review here (pdf file).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=218 )
21st March 2024: Video presentation of The Romantic Spirit
Will Sherwood, co-editor of our newest publication,
The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, has produced a movie introducing both the topic in general and this book in particular.
Alternatively the video can be opened directly on YouTube here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWu6pN_Dig
By the way, we have taken this opportunity to add a page on this website collecting all videos and podcasts.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=217 )
17th March 2024: New publication, The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien's Arda illustrates how he incorporated and built on aesthetics, ideals, and philosophies that were, during his lifetime, associated with the Romantics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien is a celebration of Romanticism's multiplicity, offering fresh perspectives on Tolkien's relationship with English, Scottish, German, transatlantic, musical, and artistic Romanticisms, working in concert to open up our discussions of Tolkien's Romantic Spirit.
By embracing this approach, the volume avoids generalisations or vague definitions of Romanticism and the Romantic, paving the way for future scholarship that seeks to understand Tolkien's stylistic and thematic connections with Romanticism.
The contributions to this volume by no means exhaust the discussion on Tolkien's Romanticism. Rather, they aim to ignite further exploration by embracing Romanticism's ever-growing cast of voices and spirits.
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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=216 )
17th March 2024: New publication, Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium
The theory of Northern Courage was J.R.R. Tolkien' s designation
for the heroic ethos found in 'Germanic' or Northern heroic lays
and epics. Tolkien admired the nobility of the old heroes, such as
Beowulf, but wrestled with the inherent cruelty of the Welands,
Ingelds, and Gunnars that is also expressed within this heroic framework.
This volume explores the means in which this conflict of nobility
and cruelty, virtue and vice, expresses itself in Tolkien's narrative
fiction. Such means include the use of secondary-world chroniclers
narrating a secondary-world history and tales to a secondary-world
audience through illustrative narratives that dramatize the moral
and ideological views of the narrators themselves. The narratives
are often tragic, but they serve to highlight the different aspects of
Northern courage through the examples of the Fingolfians, Fëanorians,
and subsequently the Edain and Dúnedain. The moral and ideological
views expressed by these secondary-world narrators parallel
Tolkien's own personal correspondence and academic essays, which
also criticized the vices and praised the virtues of Northern courage.
Gallant's study is the winner of the 2024 Inklings-Prize in the category 'best scholarly publication (PhD/Habilitation)' of the Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V.
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(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=215 )
17th March 2024: Journal of Tolkien Research reviews Tweaking Things a Little
A review of Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin, reviewed by Andrew Higgins, has been publihed in the Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 18 (2023), Issue 1.
Link to article on website of University of Valparaiso:
scholar.valpo.edu/ journaloftolkienresearch/ vol18/iss1/7/.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=214 )
17th March 2024: Journal of Inklings Studies reviews Law, Government, and Society
A review of Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, reviewed by Mary M. Keys of the University of Notre Dame, has been publihed in the Journal of Inklings Studies, Volume 13 Issue 2, Page 296-298.
Link to article on website of Edinburgh University Press:
www.euppublishing.com/ doi/full/10.3366/ink.2023.0205.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=213 )
11th December 2023: Lembas Katern reviews Tweaking Things a Little
A review of Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin by Renée Vink has been publihed in Lembas Katern (a supplement to Lembas 204. Lembas is a publication of the Dutch Tolkien Society, Unquendor. The review is reproduced here with kind permission.
Link to review (pdf format)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=212 )
11th December 2023: Mythlore reviews Nólë Hyarmenillo
A review of Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien by Nancy Martsch has been publihed in Mythlore Volume 42, Number 1.
Link to review (on dc.swosu.edu website)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=211 )
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