Obituaries
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Liam Campbell
31st March 2026: Liam Campbell Obituary
It is with great regret that we have learnt of the death of Liam Campbell. Campbell authored our 2011 volume, The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien.
An obituary to Liam Campbell was published by Derry Now. He passed away in December 2021.
Campbell's own website is available on liamcampbell.yolasite.com (also archived here: page1, page2, page3).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/authors/rip-liam-campbell.php )
J.S. Ryan
16th March 2026: Remembering J.S. Ryan
J.S. Ryan, scholar, and student under J.R.R. Tolkien at Merton College, passed away in July 2022.
An obituary by Elizabeth Hale was published in VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center, Vol. 41 (2025), pp. 5-6 (available as pdf here).
A shorter obituary was published on the Tolkien and Fantasy blog (original here, pdf version here).
A further obituary with tributes was published by Pulse news (original here, pdf version here).
Ryan and Walking Tree Publishers
Two of Ryan's works on Tolkien scholarship are published by Walking Tree Publishers:
Tolkien's View: Windows into his World (2009)
and
In the Nameless Wood: Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien's Literary Creations (2013)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/authors/rip-j-s-ryan.php )
Ryder W. Miller
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 )
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