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Hither Shore, Vol. 6

posted on April 21, 2010 by André Gand

Hither Shore is the annual scholarly journal of Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft (the German Tolkien Society). Volume 6, containing many of the talks given at the Tolkien Seminar in 2009, will be released within the very next days. The Topic of last year's seminar was “Violence, Conflict and War in Tolkien”.

Among many reviews of Tolkien related works, Hither Shore 6 contains the following essays:

Frank Weinreich
Violence in The Lord of the Rings
Annie Birks
Perspectives on Just War in Tolkien's Legendarium
Thomas Fornet-Ponse
Gibt es Macht ohne Gewalt?
Friedhelm Schneidewind
Gewalt und Gewaltdarstellung bei Tolkien im Vergleich mit zeitgenössischen Gewalt- und Aggressionstheorien
Julian T.M. Eilmann
Der Sängerkrieg: Gesang und Gewalt in J.R.R. Tolkiens Mittelerde
Patrick Brückner
Von kühner Recken Streiten? Höfische Akteure und Heroische Gewalt in Tolkiens Farmer Giles of Ham
Michaël Devaux
Dagor dagorath & Ragnarök: Tolkien & the Apocalypse
Anna Slack
Clean Earth to Till: A Tolkienian Vision of War
Judith Klinger
The Legacy of Swords: Animate Weapons and the Ambivalence of Heroic Violence
Martin G.E. Sternberg
Language and Violence: The Orcs, the Ents, and Tom Bombadil
Margaret Hiley
The Problem of Closure: War and Narrative in The Lord of the Rings
Guglielmo Spirito
The Legends of Trojan War in J.R.R. Tolkien
Petra Zimmermann
>contraria contrariis curantur< - Krankheitsheilung als Kampf in Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings

Thomas Fornet-Ponse (ed.) et al.
Hither Shore 6. Gewalt, Konflikt und Krieg bei Tolkien
Düsseldorf: Scriptorium Oxoniae, [April] 2010.
[Softcover, ISBN 978-3-9810612-4-6, 23.90 €]

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