Sunday 21 March 2021

The Week Behind, and what lies ahead – Issue 06 | 21 March 2021

Issue 006 | 21 March 2021

Welcome to “The week behind, and what lies ahead” - a newsletter looking at Tolkien-related news from the previous week and what is coming up in the week(s) ahead.

King Brand and King DáinIronfoot” by Steamey. By Shire-Reckoning, both Brand and Dáin fall at the Battle of Dale. When his friend fell, the Dwarven king stood with his axe, defending the body until he also is killed.


LOTRO roundup

A busy week for Lord of the Rings Online.

Update 29: The Wildwood of Bree-land has been released! The launch trailer can be found here.

D&Co du Milieu have uploaded the housing items from the Wildwood reputation vendors and also those linked to the Wildwood instances.

The Spring Festival has started and runs through 6th April 2021- it’s turned off at 3am EST (or /servertime) on 7th April 2021.

There are several guides worth checking out:

LOTRO Beacon #197 is out, you can find it here.

If you missed this week’s +Cord of the Rings, you can catch up here: Part 1 and Part 2 (there were some technical difficulties, hence the two parts).

HUGEsound Records will be hosting a LOTRO week from 22nd to 29th March. The company is run by Chance Thomas who composed “The LORD of the RINGS Online 10th Anniversary Soundtrack” and “TheLORD of the RINGS Online: MORDOR Soundtrack.” They’ll be replacing their usual website banner with player “Hero shot” images and have said they have a special announcement for Monday 22nd March.
Details here: https://hugesoundrecords.com/heroshots

The Tolkien Society

These items are from previous weeks but still relevant – the Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2020 are available to pre-order in printed form and the Tolkien Society Seminar #1 2021 can be watched now on YouTube.

Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2020
Release Date 12 April 2021
Peter Roe Series XX
https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/adapting-tolkien   

Tolkien Society February Seminar 2021: Twenty-first Century Receptions of Tolkien
The Tolkien Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j5LMWt7DXI&list=PLoyx2jXs6Le9KChyyjvHiZE1wgUnACrFT   

The Tolkien Society is also running the Tolkien Reading Day next week, details in the Upcoming talks/events section below.

Upcoming talks/events

Tolkien Reading Day - “Hope and Courage”
Thursday 26th March 2021 – online - free
The Tolkien Society and the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (University of Glasgow) 

Each year the Tolkien Society marks the day the Ring was destroyed whilst also celebrating the life of J.R.R. Tolkien with an international day of reading. People are encouraged to read their favourite passages from Tolkien’s books. The theme this year is “Hope and Courage.”

You can book on one of three sessions to suit you – morning, afternoon or early evening. Details can be found on the link below.
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-reading-day-2021/

Mythmoot VIII: Annual Speculative Literature Conference – “The World Ahead”
24-27 June 2021
https://signumuniversity.org/mythmoot/

The call for papers ends 31 March 2021 at 11.59pm EST. 

Tolkien Society Seminar #2 “Tolkien and Diversity”
Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July 2021 – online - free 

The next Tolkien Society Seminar will be in July and is focusing on the theme of “Tolkien and Diversity.” There is currently a call for papers, deadline is Friday 23rd April 2021. Details here:
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-summer-seminar/
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2021/02/call-for-papers-released-tolkien-society-summer-seminar-tolkien-and-diversity/ 

International Medieval Congress
Monday 5th to Friday 9th July 2021 – online - £120 (full) / £75 (concessionary)
Leeds University
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2021/ 

The Tolkien sessions for the International Medieval Congress have been finalised. Dr. Andrew Higgins is taking over organising these from Dr. Dimtra Fimi. There looks to be some wonderful talks lined up, Details can be found here:
http://wotanselvishmusings.blogspot.com/2021/02/eglerio-tolkien-sessions-at-leeds-imc.html 

17th German Tolkien Society Seminar 2021 “Tolkien and Politics”
29th to 31st October 2021
Philipps-University of Marburg and Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. (DTG)
https://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/43136/tolkien-seminar-2020-call-for-papers-en-stipendium-2/ 

The call for papers closes 30th April 2021. 

Shelob’s around the Web round-Up

We have more details now for the Official Tolkien Calendar 2022 – there is an introduction by Brian Sibley and art is by the awesome Ted Nasmith and inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Silmarillion.” This includes new art created for this product! Published by HarperCollins (ISBN: 978-0008477912), you can pre-order on Amazon UK here, the calendar is due out 22nd July 2021.

Tolkien Researcher Ryszard Derdziński (galadhorn) has posted about the finding of a picture of J.R.R. Tolkien’s father, Arthur Reuel Tolkien here.

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