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17th March 2024: New publication, The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien

germanic heroes 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

germanic heroes 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 )

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