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26th September 2024: Tolkien Seminar 2024 in 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

(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

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.

(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.

(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 )

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