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.
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:
- Fibrojedi’s excellent Spring Festival 2021 guide.
- D&Co du Milieu’s Spring Festival housing items
(including instances).
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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