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Are you fascinated by Middle-earth?
Do you wish for a greater understanding of Tolkien's place in literature, his sources, his motivations, his beliefs; those who inspired him and those he inspired, the languages and the world he created and the reactions he provoked?
The Walking Tree Publishers collect and publish essays, papers and monographs from a broad range of different authors covering an equally diverse palette of topics, ranging from linguistics to theology.
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Latest news ...
12th May 2013: Two book reviews in Mythlore
Reviews of two of our books have been published in the latest issue of Mythlore (No. 31.3/4, Spring/Summer 2013, Mythlore 121/122):
- Roberto Arduini and Claudio Testi, The Broken Scythe: Death and Immortality in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Rainer Nagel, Hobbit Place-names: A Linguistic Excursion through the Shire
The editor of Mythlore and the reviewers have kindly allowed us to reproduce these reviews on this website here (you can also access them directly by clicking on the individual covers above).
Mythlore is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published by the Mythopoeic Society that focuses on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the genres of myth and fantasy. Their website is www.mythsoc.org.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=89 )
22nd April 2013: Interview with Julian Eilmann
An interview with Julian Eilmann, co-editor of the recently published Tolkien's Poetry, can be read on the DTG website. In the interview, Eilmann discusses the background of this work and his own approach to Tolkien's poetry, as well as the editing of this book.
Link to the interview on DTG website (available in German only)
The book will be officially presented at the upcoming DTG conference in Aachen, but is already available from booksellers.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=88 )
16th April 2013: Call for papers: "Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien"
Tolkien has until recently been seen primarily as a writer of epic fantasy, a genre usually not associated with humour. If humour had been the subject of academic inquiry at all, then the authors focused mostly on the shorter works (e.g. Schneidewind on Farmer Giles of Ham) or the treatment of humour was incidental or part of a larger argument (e.g. Tom Shippey's discussion of orcish humour in LotR in his paper on the nature of evil). The proposed collection of essays therefore aims at a critical re-examination as well as an expanded view of the use of humour in and around Tolkien's works. [read more]
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=87 )
Today's selection ...
Words for Magic: goetia, gûl and lúth
Dieter Bachmann
The question of ‘magic’ in The Lord of the Rings is, in Tolkien’s words, “very large, and difficult.” If we are to believe Galadriel, this is merely due to a terminological confusion in mortal tongues. But to ... (read more)
(A different book or paper from our portfolio is featured here every day. This publication is featured on 19th June 2013. Click here if this is not today's version.)
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