Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Category: Tolkien

  • “Wild blow the winds of war”: Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur

    [Can there be spoilers in an Arthurian tale? I don’t know if my review would count as a spoiler, but if you’re worried about such things, you might want to proceed with caution.] In a darkening world, tides are flowing fast and winds sweeping into the west while ghostly apparitions ride through the skies. Tolkien’s…

  • Tolkien at Kalamazoo Facebook group

    “Tolkien at Kalamazoo” is a fairly informal group that sponsors conference sessions every year at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. A newly formed Facebook group, Tolkien at Kalamazoo, is open to anyone interested in Tolkien studies: https://www.facebook.com/groups/119241118286629/ Please note, though, that the group does not represent the Congress…

  • Fall of Arthur reviews

    I’m gathering my own thoughts on the recently published Fall of Arthur poem by Tolkien; in the meantime, here are a few reviews. John Garth, “Tolkien’s Unfinished Epic: ‘The Fall of Arthur.’” The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/23/tolkien-s-unfinished-epic-the-fall-of-arthur.html Elizabeth Hand.  “J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Fall of Arthur’ and the Path to Middle-Earth.”   Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-jrr-tolkien-fall-of-arthur-middle-earth20130526,0,7954386.story Some brief comments…

  • Calls For Papers: Tolkien

    One proposal deadline is a few days away; one a few months away; and one just passed by without my realizing it, but I’m going to post all three CFPs anyway. (Maybe late proposals will be accepted?). With a proposal deadline of June 15, a call has gone out from Dr. Brad Eden for essays…

  • Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur publication confirmed

    A couple of months ago, I was speculating about clues that Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur would finally be published next spring and wondering what it would contain. Now, a notice has appeared on the HarperCollins site confirming that the editor will indeed be Christopher Tolkien and that the work will appear in May 2013.

  • Addition of another conference to my list

    Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings: the 10th DTG Tolkien Seminar to be held in April 2013, with a submissions deadline of November 30, 2012. See the list of Tolkien conferences I’m compiling in my previous post on Upcoming Tolkien Conferences 2012-13.

  • Upcoming Tolkien conferences 2012-13

    Having missed the Mythopoeic Society’s conference that just wrapped up in California last week – one of these days I’ll get there! – and thinking about the Return of the Ring conference that will begin in Loughborough UK in a few days – where  I had been hoping to go but had to cancel in the…

  • Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur

    Rippling through the Tolkien studies community this past week has been the announcement that Tolkien’s poem The Fall of Arthur might be published in May 2013. The news has been spreading ever since the announcement was first spotted on the Amazon site in France and reported on the Mythopoeic Society’s discussion list. The listing has…

  • CFPs: Tolkien and / or Medievalisms, Kalamazoo 2013

    Because the International Congress on Medieval Studies publishes calls for so many different topics, I like to sort out the general areas I’m working in right now to see what will potentially be on offer next year as well as to think about what I might want to submit as a paper. The attached pdf…