Tolkien and Romanticism

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Tolkien and Romanticism

Publication Information
Editor	I.R. Morus M.J.L. Percival C.S. Rosenthal
Illustrator	Amina Alyal
Publisher	The Tolkien Society/Cambridge Tolkien Workshop
Released	1988
Format	A5 stapled paperback
Pages	34
ISBN	0952325004

Tolkien and Romanticism is a collection of the proceedings of The Tolkien Society's Cambridge Tolkien Workshop 1988.

Introduction
- By: Iwan Rhys Morus
Servant of the Secret Fire
- By: Paul Bibire
Tolkien and the Development of Romance
- By: Alex Lewis
Tolkien, Wagner, and the End of the Romantic Age
- By: John Ellison
Bow-Wow or Pooh-Pooh: Natural Models of Language from Plato to Tolkien
- By: Iwan Rhys Morus
Elf-Spear, The Wand of Youth, and the Starlight Express
- By: David Doughan
The History of Middle-earth Volume 24
- By: Duncan McLaren

The Tolkien Society
President: J.R.R. Tolkien · Vice-president: Priscilla Tolkien · CEO: Shaun Gunner
Topics	History (Letter to Vera Chapman and the Tolkien Society) · Archives · Awards · Enyalië · Smials · Tolkien to the World · Tolkien fandom
Chairs	Vera Chapman (1970) · Keith Bridges (1970-1973) · Hartley Patterson (1973-1974) · Jonathan Simons (1974-1984) · Brin Dunsire (1984-1988) · Alex Lewis (1988-1992) · Amanda Fingleson (1992-1996) · Chris Crawshaw (1996-2008) · Matthew Vernon (2008-2009) · Sally Kennett (2009-2013) · Shaun Gunner (2013-2025) · Daniel Helen (interim) · Hannah McDonald (2025-present)
Annual Events	Birthday Toast (3 January) · Tolkien Reading Day (25 March) · AGM and Springmoot (April) · Westmoot (May) · Seminar (July) · Oxonmoot (September)
Conferences	Oxonmoot (annual, 1974-present) · Westmoot (annual, 2025-present) · J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference (1992) · Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On (2005) · The Return of the Ring (2012) · Tolkien 2019 (2019)
Publications	Journals	Belladonna's Broadsheet (1969-1970) · Mallorn (1970-present) · The Tolkien Society Bulletin (1970-1971) · Andúril (1972) · Amon Hen (1972-present) · Quettar (1980-1995)
	Books	An Extrapolation on The Silmarillion (1975) · The Trees, the Jewels and the Rings (1977) · Tolkien in Oxford: The Tolkien Society Guide (1978) · The Tolkien Society Songbook (1985) · Tolkien and Romanticism (1988) · Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference (1995) · The Oxonmoot Songbook (1997) · The Filking Songbook (2001) · The Tolkien Society Guide to Oxford (2005) · Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference (2008) · Tolkien 2005 Souvenir Book (2009) · Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012 (2016)
	Peter Roe Books	1. Some Light on Middle-earth (1985) · 2. Leaves from the Tree (1991) · 3. The First and Second Ages (1992) · 4. Travel and Communication in Tolkien's Worlds (1996) · 5. Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 1 (1997) · 6. Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 2 (1998) · 7. Tolkien, the Sea and Scandinavia (1999) · 8. The Ways of Creative Mythologies (2000) · 9. Tolkien: A Mythology for England? (2000) · 10. The Best of Amon Hen, vol. 1 (2000) · 11. Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 3 (2001) · 12. Sindarin Lexicon (2001) · 13. The Best of Amon Hen, vol. 2 (2002) · 14. Tolkien: Influenced and Influencing (2005)· 15. Freedom, Fate and Choice in Middle-earth (2012) · 16. Journeys & Destinations (2015) · 17. Death and Immortality in Middle-earth (2017) · 18. Poetry and Song in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2018) · 19. Tolkien the Pagan? (2019) · 20. Adapting Tolkien (2021) · 21. Twenty-first Century Receptions of Tolkien (2022) · 22. Tolkien and Diversity (2023) · 23. Translating and Illustrating Tolkien (2023) · 24. Tolkien and the Gothic (2024)

Tolkien and Romanticism

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