Hither Shore 6 published
The 6th volume of DTG’s academic yearbook Hither Shore is looking at the controversial topic of »Violence, Conflict and War in Tolkien«. This has been discussed in the Tolkien Seminar 2009 at the Leibniz-University, Hannover. The volume in hand collects most of the lectures held at the event.
The publication is bilingual and includes the following articles:
- 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”
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