Nel 2008 la Tolkien Society
inglese ha pubblicato gli Atti della grande conferenza che tra l’11 e il 15
agosto 2005 vide riuniti all’Aston University di Birmingham oltre 700
partecipanti per celebrare il Cinquantesimo anniversario della pubblicazione de
Il
Signore degli Anelli. Alla conferenza, la più importante che mai si
abbia memoria, parteciparono oltre cento studiosi, tra cui Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Jessica Yates, Dimitra Fimi
e John Garth, e artisti come Alan Lee e Ted Nasmith. Oggi, la Tolkien Society ripropone
quegli Atti in due volumi a vantaggio di studiosi e ricercatori tolkieniani. Due volumi acquistabili a questo indirizzo.
The Ring Goes Ever On:
Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
Volume primo
A cura di Sarah Wells
Tolkien Society UK, 2015, pp.450
Illustrazione di copertina di
Pamela Chandler, J.R.R. Tolkien
Brossura
In questa nuova edizione trova una breve descrizione della Tolkien Society inglese, la più importante Società Tolkieniana al mondo che ha come Presidente perpetuo lo stesso J.R.R. Tolkien e Presidente onorario, sua figlia Priscilla.
Ogni saggio è preceduto da un Abstract e la biografia degli autori. Tra i relatori alla Conferenza diversi italiani i cui lavori trovano posto in questi Atti. Tra questi: Franco Manni and Simone Bonechi: "The Complexity of Tolkien's
Attitude Towards the Second World War".
Giovanni Agnoloni: "Tolkien as a Benchmark of Comparative
Literature — Middle-earth in Our World"
The Ring Goes Ever On:
Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
Volume secondo
A cura di Sarah Wells
Tolkien Society UK, 2015, pp. 435
Illustrazione di copertina di
Pamela Chandler, J.R.R. Tolkien
Brossura
/
Davide Cattaneo: "Divine presence and providence in The Lord of the
Rings"
Beppe Roncari and Davide Cattaneo: "Tolkien and Christianity"
Questo l'indice completo dei due volumi:
Contents
Section One
Tolkien's
Life
Nancy Martsch: "The Ace Copyright Affair"
John Garth: "'As under a green sea': visions of war in the Dead
Marshes"
Sharin Schroeder: "Invented, Borrowed, and Mixed Myths in the
'kinds of books we want to read'"
Franco Manni and Simone Bonechi: "The Complexity of Tolkien's
Attitude Towards the Second World War"
Charles A. Coulombe: "Romantic Conservatives: The Inklings in Their
Political Context"
Eric Rauscher: "We Had Nothing to Say to One Another — J.R.R.
Tolkien and Charles Williams, Another Look"
Richard Sturch: "On Tolkien, and Williams, and Tolkien on
Williams"
Section Two
Tolkien's
Literary Achievement
Marjorie Burns: "Containment and Progression in J.R.R. Tolkien's
World"
Andrea Ulrich: "Approaching Reality in The Lord of the Rings"
Giovanni Agnoloni: "Tolkien as a Benchmark of Comparative
Literature — Middle-earth in Our World"
Robin Anne Reid and Judy Ann Ford: "From Beowulf to Post-modernism:
Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
Ella van Wyk: "The Great Questions"
Catherine Hefferan-Hays: "Unlocking Supplementary Events in the
Dreams, Visions, and Prophesies of J.R.R. Tolkien's Work"
Patrick Curry: "Iron Crown, Iron Cage: Tolkien and Weber on
Modernity and Enchantment"
Tanya Glofcheskie: "Life as a Shared Story: Narrative Freedom in
The Lord of the Rings"
Tanya Glofcheskie: "Descriptions of Nature in The Lord of the
Rings: Outline of a method for analysis"
Ralph C. Wood: "J.R.R.Tolkien: Our Post-modern Contemporary"
Vincent Ferré: "Tolkien, the author and the critic: Beowulf, Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and The Lord of the
Rings"
Anna Vaninskaya: "Tolkien: A Man of His Time?"
Section Three
Tolkien
in Other Lands
Thomaz Brasil: "Tolkien's Legacy in Brazil"
Anna Dabkkowska: "The Polish Story of The Lord of the Rings"
Helios De Rosario-Martínez: "The Translation of Tolkien's work into
Spanish and Catalan"
R. A. and Raffaella Benvenuto: "Place Names in the
Italian Translation of The Lord of the Rings"
Natalya Prilutskaya: "Russian Followers of J.R.R.Tolkien"
Section Four
Other
Voices
Nataliya Oryshchuk: "J.R.R.Tolkien and Alexander Grin: Two Literary
"Cults" in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia"
Wolfgang Penetsdorfer: "The Hunt for the One Tolkien"
David Emerson: "Tolkien and Moorcock: Achieving literary depth
through vertical and horizontal explorations of time"
Charles Butler: "After the Inklings"
Colin Duriez: "Tolkien in fiction"
Section Five
The
Telling of Tales: Myth and Storytelling
Ian Russell Lowell: "Across No Man's Land"
Kate Karegeorgi: "Tolkien and Universality"
Kristina Sepe: "'Tell Them Stories': The Consciousness of Myth in
Tolkien and Pullman"
Rosana Rios: "Storytelling in the White Council"
Allan Turner: "Putting the Paratext in Context"
Section Six
Tolkien's
People
Beatriz Domínguez Ruiz: "The concept of masculinity in Tolkien's
The Lord of the Rings"
Douglas Charles Rapier: "Frodo's Temptation, Frodo's Failure"
Romuald (Ronnie) Ian Lakowski: "Tolkien's 'Love Triangle':
Aragorn's Relationships with Êowyn and Arwen"
Melody Green: "The Riddle of Strider: A Cognitive Linguistic
Reading"
Anna Smol: "Male Friendship in The Lord of the Rings: Medievalism,
the First World War, and Contemporary Rewritings"
Nicole Topham: "The Time That Is Given To Us: Hope, Sacrifice, and
Courage in The Lord of the Rings"
David Weber: "Transfigured Sadness: Characterizations of Sadness in
The Lord of the Rings"
Constance G.J. Wagner: "The War Within: Frodo as Sacrificial
Hero"
Beth Russell: "Galadriel and Her Lovers"
Judith Klinger: "The Fallacies of Power: Frodo's Resistance to the
Ring"
Lynnette R. Porter: "Courage and the Ability to Adapt"
Section Seven
Tolkien's Legacy
Nils Ivar Agøy: "Why Is Tolkien So Popular?"
Patty Howerton: "Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings: An Inspiration
for Education and Study Worldwide"
Patty Howerton: "Tolkien's Middle-earth: Lesson Plans for Secondary
School Educators"
Mike Foster: "Teaching Tolkien"
Miriam Glasser: "The Fantasy Genre and its Characteristics"
Section Eight
Theology and the Nature of Good and Evil
Donald T. Williams: "The Everlasting Hobbit: Perspectives on the
Human in Tolkien's Mythos"
Davide Cattaneo: "Divine presence and providence in The Lord of the
Rings"
Greg Wright: "Fellowship and the Rings: An Ecumenical Approach to
Tolkien"
Ronald Hutton: "The Pagan Tolkien"
Zach Watkins: "Satan and The Silmarillion: John Milton's Angelic
Decline in J.R.R. Tolkien's Melkor"
Zach Watkins: "Mortality and Immortality: A panel discussion on
'Mortality and Immortality'"
Pedro Ángeles-Ruiz: "Catholic 'contrafactura' of myth in some
J.R.R. Tolkien's writings
Beppe Roncari and Davide Cattaneo: "Tolkien and Christianity"
Dean Slavic: "The Underworld in Tolkien's Novel The Lord of the
Rings"
Thomas Fornet-Ponse: "Different concepts of evil in The Lord of the
Rings?"
Tim McKenzie: "I Pity Even His Slaves: Tolkien and the Theology of
Evil"
Jill Delsigne: "Hobbits, Tolkien, and God: Writing Eucatastrophe
and the Problem of Evil"
Section Nine
Tolkien's Sources
Colin Manlove: "How much does Tolkien owe to the work of George
MacDonald?"
Renée Vink: "Immortality and the death of love: J.R.R. Tolkien and
Simone de Beauvoir"
Sash Uusjärv: "Influences of the Kalevala in The Silmarillion by
J.R.R. Tolkien"
Michael Scott Rohan: "Which story, I wonder? said Gandalf… Was
Tolkien the real Ring-thief?"
Maria Artamanova: "Tolkien's writings in Old Germanic
languages"
David Bratman: "Hobbit Names Aren't From Kentucky"
Murray Smith: "Some possible origins of the Stewards of Gondor"
Joe R. Christopher: "Sir Gawain's Pentangle"
Christina Fawcett: "Reluctant Warrior: Tolkien's conflicted
language in The Lord of the Rings"
Jessica Yates: "William Morris's influence on J.R.R.Tolkien"
Section Ten
Middle-earth at the Movies
LeiLani Hinds: "Peter Jackson and Tolkien's Catholicism"
DawnEllen Jacobs: "Implicit and Explicit Treatments of Catholic
Imagery in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Jackson's Film Trilogy"
Lance Weldy: "Peregrin's "Journey in the Dark": Jackson's
Substitution in Agency"
Cherylynn Silvia: "One Ring to Rule Them All: Power and
Surveillance in the Film Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings"
Gwydion M. Williams: "Eyeing Sauron: Tolkien in the language of
film"
Christopher Garbowski: "Songs of Innocence and Experience: Tolkien
at the Movies"
Maggie Fernandes: "Logos, the Silver Path to The Lord of the Rings:
The Word in Novel and Film Writing"
Martin Barker: "Tolkien's Books and Peter Jackson's Films"
Section Eleven
Tolkien's World
Tom Shippey: "A Fund of Wise Sayings: Proverbiality in
Tolkien"
Luke Niiler: "From Conqueror to Citizen: Tolkien's Fantastic
Ecology"
Charles E. Bressler: "J.R.R. Tolkien's Love of Words The Revelatory
Nature of Tolkien's Aphorisms in The Lord of the Rings"
C. Riley Auge: "Crossing the Threshold: Doors and Other Passageways
in Tolkien's Words and Images"
Ian Russell Lowell: "Two Legs Bad, Four Legs Good, Eight Legs
Evil?"
Natalya Prilutskaya: "The Problem of Machine Technology in The Lord
of the Rings"
Michael J. Colvin: "Frozen Nature: Abiding Technology in Tolkien's
World"
Christopher Kreuzer: "Numbers in Tolkien"
Dimitra Fimi: "Material Culture and Materiality in Middle-earth:
Tolkien and Archaeology"
Rhona Beare: "Influence of Climate on Myth: Tolkien's Theory and
Practice"
Michal Lesniewski: "The Question of the "Round Arda": An
Abandoned Idea, or Another Perspective on Tolkien's Legendarium"
Benjamin Rollins: "'I will [not] serve the master of the Precious':
Bataille's Economy in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
Carolina A. Panero: "Dealing with Elvish Languages"
Christian Weichmann: "Niggle's picture – Parish's Garden: Gardens
in Tolkien's Work"
Margarita Carretero-González: "The loss of the Entwives: the
biological dimension of gender construction in The Lord of the Rings"
Anna Adamczyk "Nifrodel": "Tolkien and Nature"
Kristine Larsen: "A Little Earth of His Own: Tolkien's Lunar
Creation Myths"
