Walking Tree Publishers was founded in 1996 by members of the (now defunct) Swiss Tolkien Society with the aim of publishing the proceedings of the Cormarë conference held that year to mark the 10th anniversary of the Swiss Tolkien Society. The company is run by volunteers and on a nonprofit basis, with surplus money reinvested into new products. It is dedicated exclusively to the publication of English-language works concerned with

J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson ...

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Tolkien studies The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have generated a body of research covering many aspects of his High fantasy, fantasy writings. These encompass ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion'', along with Tolkien's legendarium, his legendarium t ...

Publications

Cormarë Series

* Sherwood, Will, and Julian Eilmann (eds.). ''The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien.'' Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 51, * Honegger, Thomas. ''Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin''. Walking Tree Publishers 2023, Cormarë No 50, * Gallant, Richard Z. ''Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium''. Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 49, * Neubauer, Lukasz (ed.). ''The Song of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien, and the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination''. Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 48, * Rodrigues, Nuno Simões, Martin Simonson, and Angélica Varandas (eds.). ''Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2022, Cormarë No 47, * Bunting, Nancy, and Seamus Hamill-Keays. ''The Gallant

Edith Bratt Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English word , meaning ''wealth'' or ''prosperity'', in combination with the Old English , meaning '' strife'', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian langu ...

''. Walking Tree Publishers 2021, Cormarë No 46, * Williams, Hamish (ed.). ''

Tolkien and the Classical World J. R. R. Tolkien derived the characters, stories, places, and languages of Middle-earth from J. R. R. Tolkien's influences, many sources, especially Tolkien and the medieval, medieval ones. Tolkien and the classical world have been linked by ...

''. Walking Tree Publishers 2021, Cormarë No 45, * Neubauer, Lukasz (ed.). ''Middle-earth or There and Back Again''. Walking Tree Publishers 2020, Cormarë No 44, * Boto, José María Miranda. ''Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works''. Walking Tree Publishers 2022, Cormarë No 43, * Arduini, Roberto, Giampaolo Canzonieri, and Claudio A. Testi (eds.). ''Tolkien and the Classics.'' Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë No 42, * Croft, Janet Brennan, and Annika Röttinger (eds.). ''"Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R.Tolkien in the Great War''. Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë No 41, * Fimi, Dimitra, and Thomas Honegger (eds.). ''Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies''. Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë No 40, * Eilmann, Julian, and Friedhelm Schneidewind (eds.). ''Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond.'' Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë No 39, * Testi, Claudio A. (ed.). ''Pagan Saints in Middle-earth''. Walking Tree Publishers 2018, Cormarë No 38, * Kirner-Ludwig, Monika, Stephan Köser, and Sebastian Streitberger (eds.). ''Binding them all: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on JRR Tolkien and His Works''. Walking Tree Publishers 2017, Cormarë No 37, * Eilmann, Julian. ''J.R.R. Tolkien, Romanticist and Poet''. Walking Tree Publishers 2017, Cormarë No 36, * Honegger, Thomas, and Maureen F. Mann (eds.). ''Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2016, Cormarë No 35, * Simonson, Martin (ed.). ''Representations of Nature in Middle-earth''. Walking Tree Publishers 2015, Cormarë No 34, * Curry, Patrick. ''Deep Roots in a Time of Frost: Essays on Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2014, Cormarë No 33, * Arduini, Roberto, and Claudio A. Testi (eds.). ''Tolkien and Philosophy''. Walking Tree Publishers 2014, Cormarë No 32, * Honegger, Thomas, and Dirk Vanderbeke (eds.). ''From Peterborough to Faëry: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds''. Walking Tree Publishers 2014, Cormarë No 31, * Ryan, J. S. ''In the Nameless Wood: Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien's Literary Creations''. Walking Tree Publishers 2013, Cormarë No 30, * Kowalik, Barbara (ed.). ''O What a Tangled Web: Tolkien and Medieval Literature: A View from Poland''. Walking Tree Publishers 2013, Cormarë No 29, * Eilmann, Julian, and

Allan Turner Allan Turner is a linguist and medievalist, best known as a Tolkien scholar. His 2005 book ''Translating Tolkien'' and his 2013 book ''Tolkien's Poetry'' have been welcomed by other scholars. Life Allan Turner was born c. 1949. He was educated ...

(eds.). ''Tolkien’s Poetry''. Walking Tree Publishers 2013, Cormarë No 28, * Klinger, Judith (ed.). ''Sub-creating Middle-earth – Constructions of Authorship and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 27, * Arduini, Roberto, and Claudio A. Testi (eds.). ''The Broken Scythe: Death and Immortality in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 26, * Vink, Renée. ''Wagner and Tolkien: Mythmakers''. Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 25, * MacLachlan, Christopher. ''Tolkien and Wagner: The Ring and Der Ring''. Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 24, * Nagel, Rainer. ''Hobbit Place-names: A Linguistic Excursion through the Shire''. Walking Tree Publishers 2012, Cormarë No 23, * Hilley, Margaret. ''The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams.'' Walking Tree Publishers 2011, Cormarë No 22, * Campbell, Liam. ''The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2011, Cormarë No 21, * Steimel, Heidi, and Friedhelm Schneidewind (eds.). ''Music in Middle-earth''. Walking Tree Publishers 2010, Cormarë No 20, * Ryan, J. S. ''Tolkien's View: Windows into his World''. Walking Tree Publishers 2009, Cormarë No 19, * Caldecott, Stratford, and Thomas Honegger (eds.). ''Tolkien's

The Lord of the Rings ''The Lord of the Rings'' is an Epic (genre), epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book ''The Hobbit'' but eventually d ...

– Sources of Inspiration''. Walking Tree Publishers 2008, Cormarë No 18, * Hiley, Margaret, and Frank Weinreich (eds.). ''Tolkien’s Shorter Works: Essays of the

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Conference 2007''. Walking Tree Publishers 2008, Cormarë No 17, * Simonson, Martin. ''

and the Western Narrative Tradition''. Walking Tree Publishers 2008, Cormarë No 16, * Turner, Allan (ed.) ''

The Silmarillion ''The Silmarillion'' () is a book consisting of a collection of myths and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher in 1977, assisted by G ...

Thirty Years On''. Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Cormarë No 15, * Segura, Eduardo, and Thomas Honegger (eds.). ''Myth and Magic: Art According to the Inklings''. Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Cormarë No 14, * Lam, Adam, and Nataliya Oryshchuk (eds.). ''How We Became Middle-earth: A Collection of Essays on

.'' Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Cormarë No 13, * Smith, Ross. ''Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Second edition 2011, Cormarë No 12, * Shippey, Tom (ed.). ''Roots and Branches''. Walking Tree Publishers 2007, Cormarë No 11, * Honegger, Thomas, and Frank Weinreich (eds.). ''Tolkien and Modernity 2''. Walking Tree Publishers 2006, Cormarë No 10, * Honegger, Thomas, and Frank Weinreich (eds.). ''Tolkien and Modernity 1''. Walking Tree Publishers 2006, Cormarë No 9, * Honegger, Thomas (ed.). ''Reconsidering Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2005, Cormarë No 8, * Garbowski, Christopher. ''Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The Spiritual Dimension in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 2004, Cormarë No 7, * Honegger, Thomas (ed.). ''Translating Tolkien: Text and Film''. Walking Tree Publishers 2004, Second edition 2011, Cormarë No 6, * Hooker, Mark T. ''Tolkien Through Russian Eyes''. Walking Tree Publishers 2003, Cormarë No 5, * Honegger, Thomas (ed.). ''Tolkien in Translation''. Ed. Thomas Honegger. Walking Tree Publishers 2003, Second edition 2011, Cormarë No 4, * Sturch, Richard. ''Four Christian Fantasists: A Study of the Fantastic Writings of

George MacDonald George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carrol ...

, Charles Williams,

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J.R.R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson ...

.'' Walking Tree Publishers 2001, Cormarë Series No. 3. * Shippey, Tom (ed.). ''Root and Branch - Approaches towards Understanding Tolkien''. Walking Tree Publishers 1999, Cormarë Series No. 2, * Buchs, Peter, and Thomas Honegger (eds.). ''News from the Shire and Beyond – Studies on Tolkien.'' Walking Tree Publishers 1997, Cormarë Series No. 1,

Beowulf and the Dragon

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Beowulf ''Beowulf'' (; ) is an Old English poetry, Old English poem, an Epic poetry, epic in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 Alliterative verse, alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and List of translat ...

and the Dragon''.

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Text and Translation of the 'Dragon Episode' illustrated by Anke Eißmann, translated by John Porter, foreword by

Tom Shippey Thomas Alan Shippey (born 9 September 1943) is a British medievalist, a retired scholar of Middle and Old English literature as well as of modern fantasy and science fiction. He is considered one of the world's leading academic experts on the ...

. Walking Tree Publishers 2009,

Tales of Yore Series

* Louis, Edward S. ''The Monster Specialist''. Tales of Yore Series No. 3. Walking Tree Publishers, 2014, * Woollard, Kay. ''Wilmot's Very Strange Stone''. Tales of Yore Series No. 2. Walking Tree Publishers 2002, * Woollard, Kay. ''The Terror of Tatty Walk''. Tales of Yore Series No. 1. Walking Tree Publishers 2000,

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