The Tolkien Society and Luna Press Publishing are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the Tolkien 2019 Conference will be published on 28th February, and is now available to pre-order.
Edited by Will Sherwood, the Proceedings of the Tolkien 2019 Conference is a collection of sixty one papers presented at The Tolkien Society’s conference Tolkien 2019 that took place between 7-11th August 2019. Running to 610 pages, this is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Tolkien scholarship ever published.
The book will be released on 28th February 2025.
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The printed book is available to order now at a discounted price of £30 (retail price of £35!). ISBN for the printed book: 9781915556370.
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Description
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TOLKIEN 2019 CONFERENCE
These proceedings celebrate the breadth, knowledge, and passion of the Tolkien scholars who attended Tolkien 2019. It includes sixty-one papers and covers a diverse range of subjects pertaining to Tolkien’s life, influences, works, and legacy: Biography; Tolkien’s Theoretical and Creative Practices; Mythical, Folkloric, and Literary Traditions; Cities and Environments; Religion, Spirituality, and Faith; Politics and Law; Identity; Art and Music; and Reception, Fandom, and Legacy.
ABOUT TOLKIEN 2019
Tolkien 2019 was a five-day conference organised by The Tolkien Society to mark our 50th birthday. Held at Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham, UK between 7th-11th August 2019, it brought together 550 attendees from over 30 countries for a celebration like never before. In addition to the excellent selection of keynotes and scholars, there were signings, coffee klatches, games, and quizzes, all running alongside an exhibition of the Society’s history and a public exhibition of Tolkien art. The festivities continued into the evenings with performances of Leaf by Niggle, songs and poems, and a special concert by a guest orchestra that featured music from fantasy films and TV shows. Tolkien 2019 was one of the highest ever attended Tolkien-specific events and followed on from the Society’s earlier conferences in 2012, 2005, and 1992 which respectively marked special anniversaries for The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s birth.
Contents
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- ‘Foreword’ – Shaun Gunner
- ‘Introduction’ – Will Sherwood
- BIOGRAPHY
- ‘Tolkien’s Birmingham’ – Bob Blackham
- ‘Tolkien’s First Job: Experiences in France Linked to his 1913 Trip’ – José Manuel Ferrández-Bru
- ‘Tolkien in East Yorkshire, 1917-18: A Hemlock Glade, Two Towers, The Houses of Healing and a Beacon’ – Michael Flowers
- ‘“I will do my duty to God and the King” – J.R.R. Tolkien and R.S.S. Baden-Powell’ – Troels Forchhammer
- ‘The Two Towers of Birmingham and other follies’ – John Garth
- ‘Tolkien and his Publishers’ – Wayne G. Hammond
- ‘Hobbit Holes in Hove? On the trail of the young Tolkien in Sussex’ – Mick Henry
- ‘The Wright Stuff’ – Ian Spittlehouse
- ‘A comparison of The Lord of the Rings with some of the themes identified in Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory’ – Kate Wilkins
- TOLKIEN’S THEORETICAL AND CREATIVE PRACTICES
- ‘Depth by Paratext: How Forewords and Footnotes Helped J.R.R. Tolkien Develop a Secondary World in The Lord of the Rings‘ – Lorenzo Gammarelli
- ‘Memory, Lore, Knowledge’ – Thomas Honegger
- ‘On the Nature and Corporeality of Elves, according to Tolkien’ – Massimiliano Izzo
- ‘“I Met a Lot of Things on the Way That Astonished Me”: Natural Growth in Writing The Lord of the Rings‘ – Christina Scull
- ‘Allegory and Story: Poetic Time Travel in Tolkien’s Typological Fictions’ – Anna Smol
- ‘To the origins of fairy-tales’ – Enrico Spadaro
- ‘‘On Fairy-stories’ or the birth of Tolkien’s semiotic theory’ – Laura Iseut Lafrance St-Martin
- ‘”You have grown, Halfling!” – The Scouring of the Shire’ – Constance G.J. Wagner
- ‘Five or Six Ponies?’ – Jessica Yates
- MYTHICAL, FOLKLORIC, AND LITERARY TRADITIONS
- ‘The Dim Echo of the Catcher’ – Nils Ivar Agøy
- ‘Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes: a thoroughly vulpine paper (with optional singing)’ – Professor Dimitra Fimi
- ‘”It cries for such curses”: Tolkien and Laȝamon’ – Nelson Goering
- ‘The Worm and the Ring: The Ouroboros as a Pattern in Tolkien’s Legendarium’ – Michaela Hausmann
- ‘Failed Quests and Faithlessness in Tolkien’ – Dr Danko Kamčevski
- ‘Bilbo, Ulysses and the Greatness of the Unknown’ – Gloria Larini
- ‘Travelers in Time: J.R.R. Tolkien and Joseph O’Neill’ – Kris Swank
- CITIES AND ENVIRONMENTS
- ‘A Tale of Two Cities (or perhaps more)’ – Denis Bridoux
- ‘Negotiating Dichotomies in Landscapes’ – Elise McKenna
- ‘”Rivers of flame and a great reek rising”: volcanoes and the horror of the sublime in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium’ – Sian J. Pehrsson
- ‘The Beauty of the Horrendous and the Eerie: The Fantastic, the Marvellous, and the Sublime in The Lord of the Rings‘ – Michaela Schneider-Wettstein
- RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, AND FAITH
- ‘Leaf by Niggle by Northwest: J. R. R. Tolkien and Alfred Hitchcock as Catholic Artists’ – Revd. Dr. Justin Anthony
- ‘The tale of the Children of Húrin and the Fall of Men’ – Zoya Metlitskaya
- ‘A Ray of Light: The Theological Vision of Letter 89’ – Guglielmo Spirito
- ‘Tolkien and Aquinas on Death’ – Claudio A. Testi
- ‘A Journey through Workhouse Infirmary and Niggle’s Parish. Problems with a Tolkienian Eschatology in Leaf by Niggle’ – Christian Trenk
- ‘Tolkien’s War Gods: Studying Tolkien’s View of War through the Characterization of Makar and Tulkas’ – Charlie Trimm
- POLITICS AND LAW
- ‘Law in Tolkien’ – José María Miranda Boto
- ‘Tolkien’s Libertarian Moral Impulse: Domination and the Lust for Power as the Summum Malum’ – Craig A. Boyd
- ‘The trial of Húrin: justice seen to be done?’ – Jan van Breda
- ‘Taking Care of the Land: Stewardship in Tolkien’s Middle-earth’ – Dr. Sara Brown
- ‘The Geopolitics of Tolkien’s Legend’ – Dr. Lamont Colucci
- IDENTITY
- ‘Cultural perspectives on the Elves in The Lord of the Rings‘ – Lauren Brand
- ‘“We should look at green again”: of magic, Green Elves and the battle of good vs evil’ – Aurélie Brémont
- ‘Leaving the homeland and finding a home: An exploration of migration in Tolkien’s works’ – Ellen Duncan
- ‘Four Brethren Heroes of the Gondothlim – Egalmoth, Ecthelion, Glorfindel and Legolas: A mythic and linguistic exploration’ – Dr. Andrew Higgins
- ‘Knife, Sting, and Tooth: The Lasting Effects of Frodo’s Wounds’ – Jamie McGregor
- ‘Not at Home: Liminal Space and Personal Identity in The Hobbit and Coraline‘ – Kristen McQuinn
- ‘Clothing in Tolkien’s World and What Can Be Seen through its Analysis’ – Dr. Torredelforth
- ‘Fruitless Victories: The Life and Times of Elrond Half-elven’ – Dr. Stuart Whitehouse
- ART AND MUSIC
- ‘Artists in Middle-earth: illustrating The Lord of the Rings‘ – Marie Bretagnolle
- ‘Setting The Silmarillion to Music’ – Paul Corfield Godfrey
- ‘”Independently real, but viewed by a different eye”: Tolkien’s reactions to others’ Middle-earth art’ – Jeremy Edmonds
- ‘Hompen as the source text for Tove Jansson’s illustrations for The Hobbit‘ – Sonja Virta
- RECEPTION, FANDOM, AND LEGACY
- ‘Tutoring Key Stage 5 Students in Tolkien: A Priceless and Hilarious Experience on Sharing My PhD Project with 16-Year-Olds’ – Aslı Bülbül Candaş
- ‘Over Hill and Under Hill’ – Erick Carvalho
- ‘The TARDIS in Middle-earth’ – Joel Cornah
- ‘Reputations: Their rise, their fall, both and neither’ – David Doughan
- ‘The formation of Tolkien fandom in the US, the UK and France’ – Laura Martin-Gomez
- ‘‘Not Worth Doing’: Fan fiction writers and the Fourth Age’ – Dr Una McCormack
- ‘Le Nere Lame’ – The Black Blades – Marco Scicchitano
- ‘Young Readers, The Lord of the Rings, and the Question of Genre’ – Luke Shelton
- ‘Tolkien’s Legacy’ – Tom Shippey
