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Student journalism often rises to the top in such situations. ✊ #newspaperhistory #bookstudies
katie-drummond.bsky.social Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · Mar 27
Kudos to the student journalists at The Tufts Daily, who crashed a last-minute issue of the paper to cover the outrageous arrest and detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk:

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March 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
michaelwdurrant.bsky.social
There’s still time to submit your #bookhistory #bookstudies proposals!
September 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
michaelwdurrant.bsky.social
Still plenty of time to get those #bookstudies abstracts in! #bookhistory #bibliography
July 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
corinnanorue.bsky.social
Delighted & grateful that I was invited to contribute to this 3-part special issue project. My response and contribution - titled #BookStudies for Dessert? - goes back to the well-worn and -loved recipe cards of #bookhistory and revisits D. F. McKenzie's work. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
July 8, 2026 at 7:07 AM
evelynkoch.bsky.social
The #CfP for the 21st #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social is about "Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market". See details below. 🔽🔽🔽
#fantasy #bookstudies #bookhistory #booksky
tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · Feb 19
📢 #CfP for the 21st #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Department of #BookStudies of the @unimainz.bsky.social and WTP
📜Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market
🗓️ 31 Oct-02 Nov 2025
📍in-person in Mainz or online
💙📚 #fantasy #bookhistory #lit #booksky
Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market Call for Papers for the 21st DTG Tolkien Seminar (31 Oct.-02 Nov. 2025) (Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz) “It is in fact hard to think of a work […] written with less concern for commercial considerations than The Lord of the Rings. No market researcher in the 1950s could possibly have predicted its success. It was long, difficult, trailed with appendices, studded with quotations in unknown languages which the author did not always translate, and utterly strange. It had, indeed, to create its own market” (Shippey 2001: xxiv), as Tom Shippey describes the situation in J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century. Nevertheless, The Lord of the Rings proved to be a million-selling bestseller, new editions have been regularly published worldwide for 70 years and the epic has repeatedly been voted the number one favourite book in surveys. The Hobbit and other works by Tolkien have also become long-sellers. Not a year goes by without new editions of Tolkien’s works, including both lavishly illustrated volumes and luxury editions. The materiality of these books also plays a role in times of social media and cross-media marketing, for example when special Tolkien editions are proudly presented on YouTube or TikTok or publishers advertise Tolkien adaptations with new book covers. Tolkien’s relationship with his publishers was not always easy, as his abortive attempt to change the publisher from Unwin to Collins or the unauthorised US editions of The Lord of the Rings in the 1960s show. This was partly due to Tolkien’s demands on himself and his texts, and partly due to the mechanisms of the book market. The fact that Tolkien’s works were nevertheless made accessible to a broad public and found a loyal readership is therefore not a matter of course. The aim of this seminar is to bring together researchers from different disciplines and subject areas to explore the various questions and problems posed by Tolkien’s works on the book market. Possible starting points for presentations would be: • Tolkien and his publishers (Tolkien’s relationships with publishers, rights and license trading, etc.) • Tolkien’s works on the German/international book market • Tolkien film adaptations and the book market (effects of the adaptations on the sale of the works etc.; significance of the films and series for the perception of the books) • The materiality of the editions and their paratexts (economic significance of the paratexts, design of the editions, etc.) • Use of the book as a motif • Cross-media marketing, book merchandise, Tolkien’s books on social media (BookTok, podcasts etc.) The 21st seminar of the German Tolkien Society is supported by Walking Tree Publishers and will take place in cooperation with the Department of Book Science in a hybrid format (mainly in presence but with online options) from 31 October to 2 November 2025 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Interested parties are requested to send a short synopsis (no longer than one page) and a short biography as well as their preference (attendance or online presentation) to Thomas Fornet-Ponse by 31 May 2025: hither-shore@tolkiengesellschaft.de A selection of relevant publications on the topic: Bushell, Sally. 2016. “Paratext or Imagetext? Interpreting the Fictional Map.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 32 (2), 181-194. Carpenter, Humphrey. 1977. J.R.R. Tolkien. A Biography. Paperback edition 1995. London: HarperCollins. Croft, Janet Brennan. 2018. “Doors into Elf-Mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 15, 177-195. Groom, Nick. 2023. Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century. The Meaning of Middle-earth Today. New York, London: Pegasus Books. Hammond, Wayne G., with the assistance of Douglas Anderson. 1993. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies. Higgins, Andrew. 2019. “More than Narrative [...]"
February 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
bbienias.bsky.social
“The Library A Fragile History” by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen is excellent indeed. #bookhistory #earlymodernprint #earlymodern #library #manuscripts #bookstudies
May 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social
Don't forget - you can still submit abstracts for "Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market" until tomorrow. 💙📚
#Tolkien #fantasy #lit #bookstudies #bookhistory #booktok #booksky
tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · Feb 19
📢 #CfP for the 21st #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Department of #BookStudies of the @unimainz.bsky.social and WTP
📜Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market
🗓️ 31 Oct-02 Nov 2025
📍in-person in Mainz or online
💙📚 #fantasy #bookhistory #lit #booksky
Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market Call for Papers for the 21st DTG Tolkien Seminar (31 Oct.-02 Nov. 2025) (Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz) “It is in fact hard to think of a work […] written with less concern for commercial considerations than The Lord of the Rings. No market researcher in the 1950s could possibly have predicted its success. It was long, difficult, trailed with appendices, studded with quotations in unknown languages which the author did not always translate, and utterly strange. It had, indeed, to create its own market” (Shippey 2001: xxiv), as Tom Shippey describes the situation in J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century. Nevertheless, The Lord of the Rings proved to be a million-selling bestseller, new editions have been regularly published worldwide for 70 years and the epic has repeatedly been voted the number one favourite book in surveys. The Hobbit and other works by Tolkien have also become long-sellers. Not a year goes by without new editions of Tolkien’s works, including both lavishly illustrated volumes and luxury editions. The materiality of these books also plays a role in times of social media and cross-media marketing, for example when special Tolkien editions are proudly presented on YouTube or TikTok or publishers advertise Tolkien adaptations with new book covers. Tolkien’s relationship with his publishers was not always easy, as his abortive attempt to change the publisher from Unwin to Collins or the unauthorised US editions of The Lord of the Rings in the 1960s show. This was partly due to Tolkien’s demands on himself and his texts, and partly due to the mechanisms of the book market. The fact that Tolkien’s works were nevertheless made accessible to a broad public and found a loyal readership is therefore not a matter of course. The aim of this seminar is to bring together researchers from different disciplines and subject areas to explore the various questions and problems posed by Tolkien’s works on the book market. Possible starting points for presentations would be: • Tolkien and his publishers (Tolkien’s relationships with publishers, rights and license trading, etc.) • Tolkien’s works on the German/international book market • Tolkien film adaptations and the book market (effects of the adaptations on the sale of the works etc.; significance of the films and series for the perception of the books) • The materiality of the editions and their paratexts (economic significance of the paratexts, design of the editions, etc.) • Use of the book as a motif • Cross-media marketing, book merchandise, Tolkien’s books on social media (BookTok, podcasts etc.) The 21st seminar of the German Tolkien Society is supported by Walking Tree Publishers and will take place in cooperation with the Department of Book Science in a hybrid format (mainly in presence but with online options) from 31 October to 2 November 2025 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Interested parties are requested to send a short synopsis (no longer than one page) and a short biography as well as their preference (attendance or online presentation) to Thomas Fornet-Ponse by 31 May 2025: hither-shore@tolkiengesellschaft.de A selection of relevant publications on the topic: Bushell, Sally. 2016. “Paratext or Imagetext? Interpreting the Fictional Map.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 32 (2), 181-194. Carpenter, Humphrey. 1977. J.R.R. Tolkien. A Biography. Paperback edition 1995. London: HarperCollins. Croft, Janet Brennan. 2018. “Doors into Elf-Mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 15, 177-195. Groom, Nick. 2023. Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century. The Meaning of Middle-earth Today. New York, London: Pegasus Books. Hammond, Wayne G., with the assistance of Douglas Anderson. 1993. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies. Higgins, Andrew. 2019. “More than Narrative [...]"
May 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
corinnanorue.bsky.social
Very much enjoying the #SHARPIES online festival! @bethdriscoll.bsky.social's games inspired talk right now is reminding me to recommend @tinybookshopgame.com to all my @sharpweb.org #bookstudies / #bookhistory friends! 📚
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July 8, 2026 at 6:56 AM
melusinagr.bsky.social
Episode 2 is out! 🎙️📚 #booksky #bookclub #books #bookstudies #readers #AIinpublishing #bookhistory #podcasts 💜
codexmachina.bsky.social CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · May 5
Episode 2 is the first one where we feature the "Strange Land Book Club" - where we briefly discuss our own reader responses to one book. We begin with Piranesi - a book that had a profound effect on each one of us. Also, in "Making Book History" we discuss Inkitt and their AI shenanigans.
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May 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
evelynkoch.bsky.social
Don't forget - you can still submit abstracts for "Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market" until tomorrow. 💙📚
#Tolkien #fantasy #lit #bookstudies #bookhistory #booktok #booksky
tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · Feb 19
📢 #CfP for the 21st #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Department of #BookStudies of the @unimainz.bsky.social and WTP
📜Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market
🗓️ 31 Oct-02 Nov 2025
📍in-person in Mainz or online
💙📚 #fantasy #bookhistory #lit #booksky
Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market Call for Papers for the 21st DTG Tolkien Seminar (31 Oct.-02 Nov. 2025) (Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz) “It is in fact hard to think of a work […] written with less concern for commercial considerations than The Lord of the Rings. No market researcher in the 1950s could possibly have predicted its success. It was long, difficult, trailed with appendices, studded with quotations in unknown languages which the author did not always translate, and utterly strange. It had, indeed, to create its own market” (Shippey 2001: xxiv), as Tom Shippey describes the situation in J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century. Nevertheless, The Lord of the Rings proved to be a million-selling bestseller, new editions have been regularly published worldwide for 70 years and the epic has repeatedly been voted the number one favourite book in surveys. The Hobbit and other works by Tolkien have also become long-sellers. Not a year goes by without new editions of Tolkien’s works, including both lavishly illustrated volumes and luxury editions. The materiality of these books also plays a role in times of social media and cross-media marketing, for example when special Tolkien editions are proudly presented on YouTube or TikTok or publishers advertise Tolkien adaptations with new book covers. Tolkien’s relationship with his publishers was not always easy, as his abortive attempt to change the publisher from Unwin to Collins or the unauthorised US editions of The Lord of the Rings in the 1960s show. This was partly due to Tolkien’s demands on himself and his texts, and partly due to the mechanisms of the book market. The fact that Tolkien’s works were nevertheless made accessible to a broad public and found a loyal readership is therefore not a matter of course. The aim of this seminar is to bring together researchers from different disciplines and subject areas to explore the various questions and problems posed by Tolkien’s works on the book market. Possible starting points for presentations would be: • Tolkien and his publishers (Tolkien’s relationships with publishers, rights and license trading, etc.) • Tolkien’s works on the German/international book market • Tolkien film adaptations and the book market (effects of the adaptations on the sale of the works etc.; significance of the films and series for the perception of the books) • The materiality of the editions and their paratexts (economic significance of the paratexts, design of the editions, etc.) • Use of the book as a motif • Cross-media marketing, book merchandise, Tolkien’s books on social media (BookTok, podcasts etc.) The 21st seminar of the German Tolkien Society is supported by Walking Tree Publishers and will take place in cooperation with the Department of Book Science in a hybrid format (mainly in presence but with online options) from 31 October to 2 November 2025 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Interested parties are requested to send a short synopsis (no longer than one page) and a short biography as well as their preference (attendance or online presentation) to Thomas Fornet-Ponse by 31 May 2025: hither-shore@tolkiengesellschaft.de A selection of relevant publications on the topic: Bushell, Sally. 2016. “Paratext or Imagetext? Interpreting the Fictional Map.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 32 (2), 181-194. Carpenter, Humphrey. 1977. J.R.R. Tolkien. A Biography. Paperback edition 1995. London: HarperCollins. Croft, Janet Brennan. 2018. “Doors into Elf-Mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 15, 177-195. Groom, Nick. 2023. Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century. The Meaning of Middle-earth Today. New York, London: Pegasus Books. Hammond, Wayne G., with the assistance of Douglas Anderson. 1993. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies. Higgins, Andrew. 2019. “More than Narrative [...]"
May 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
dehypotheses.bsky.social
The first German cookbook authored by a woman was published in 1597: Entitled "Ein köstlich new Kochbuch", it was written by Anna Wecker and combined culinary instruction with medical advice, featuring endorsements from (male) medical experts 👇

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#BookStudies #hypolingual
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
allthebeset.bsky.social
Such a privilege to talk about the Codex Espangliensis in #bookstudies today
Accordion fold book with pictures and text partially unfurled across a long table
April 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social
Nicht vergessen - noch bis morgen könnt ihr Abstracts zu "Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt" einreichen. 💙📚
#Tolkien #fantasy #lit #bookstudies #bookhistory #booktok #booksky
tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · Feb 19
📢 #CfP für das 21. #Tolkien Seminar der @germantolksoc.bsky.social in Kooperation mit der #Buchwissenschaft der @unimainz.bsky.social und WTP
📜Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt
🗓️ 31.10.-02.11.2025
📍vor Ort in Mainz oder online
💙📚 #fantasy #bookstudies #bookhistory #lit #booksky
Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt Call for Papers für das 21. DTG Tolkien Seminar (31.10.–02.11. 2025) (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) „Es wäre überaus schwierig, ein Werk anzugeben […], das mit weniger Rücksicht auf kommerzielle Erwägungen geschrieben wurde als Der Herr der Ringe. Kein Marktforscher hätte in den 50er Jahren seinen Erfolg voraussagen können. Es war lang, schwierig, mit einem Schwanz von Anhängen, voller Zitate in unbekannten Sprachen, denen der Autor nicht immer eine Übersetzung beigab, und ganz und gar ungewöhnlich. Es mußte sich seinen Markt überhaupt erst schaffen“ (27), stellt Tom Shippey in J.R.R. Tolkien. Autor des Jahrhunderts fest. Dennoch erwies sich Der Herr der Ringe als millionenfach verkaufter Bestseller, seit 70 Jahren erscheinen weltweit regelmäßig neue Ausgaben und der Roman wurde in Umfragen immer wieder auf Platz 1 der Lieblingsbücher gewählt. Ebenso haben sich Der Hobbit und weitere Werke Tolkiens zu Longsellern entwickelt. Kein Jahr vergeht ohne neue Ausgaben von Tolkiens Werken, darunter sind sowohl aufwändig illustrierte Bände als auch Luxusausgaben. Die Materialität dieser Bücher spielt auch in Zeiten von Social Media und Cross-Media-Marketing eine Rolle, wenn z.B. auf YouTube oder TikTok besondere Tolkien-Ausgaben stolz präsentiert werden oder durch Verlage mit neuen Buchcovern für Tolkien-Adaptionen geworben wird. Dabei war die Beziehung Tolkiens zu seinen Verleger:innen nicht immer einfach, wie sein Verlagswechsel zu Collins oder die unautorisierten US-Ausgaben von Der Herr der Ringe in den 1960ern zeigen. Dies war einerseits Tolkiens Anspruch an sich selbst und seine Texte geschuldet, anderseits den Mechanismen des Buchmarktes. Dass Tolkiens Werke trotzdem einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht wurden und eine treue Leserschaft fanden, ist deshalb keine Selbstverständlichkeit. Ziel dieses Seminars ist es, Forscher:innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und Fachgebieten zusammenzubringen, um die [...] Mögliche Ansatzpunkte für Vorträge wären: • Tolkien und seine Verleger:innen (Beziehungen Tolkiens zu Verleger:innen, Rechte- und Lizenzhandel etc.) • Tolkiens Werke auf dem deutschen/internationalen Buchmarkt • Tolkien-Verfilmungen und der Buchmarkt (Auswirkungen der Adaptionen auf den Verkauf der Werke etc.; Bedeutung der Filme und Serien auf die Wahrnehmung der Bücher) • Die Materialität der Ausgaben und ihrer Paratexte (Ökonomische Bedeutung der Paratexte, Gestaltung der Ausgaben etc.) • Verwendung des Buchs als Motiv • Cross-Media-Marketing, Bücher-Merchandise, Tolkiens Bücher auf Social Media (BookTok, Podcasts etc.) Das 21. Seminar der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft wird von Walking Tree Publishers unterstützt und findet in Zusammenarbeit mit der Mainzer Buchwissenschaft in einem hybriden Format (schwergewichtig in Präsenz aber mit Online-Optionen) vom 31. Oktober bis 02. November 2025 an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz statt. Interessenten werden darum gebeten, ein kurzes Exposé (nicht länger als eine Seite) und eine Kurzbiographie sowie ihre Präferenz (Präsenzteilnahme oder Online-Präsentation) bis zum 31. Mai 2025 an Thomas Fornet-Ponse zu senden: hither-shore@tolkiengesellschaft.de Eine Auswahl von relevanten Publikationen zum Thema: Bushell, Sally. 2016. “Paratext or Imagetext? Interpreting the Fictional Map.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 32 (2), 181-194. Carpenter, Humphrey. 1977. J.R.R. Tolkien. A Biography. Paperback edition 1995. London: HarperCollins. Croft, Janet Brennan. 2018. “Doors into Elf-Mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 15, 177-195. Groom, Nick. 2023. Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century. The Meaning of Middle-earth Today. New York, London: Pegasus Books. Hammond, Wayne G., with the assistance of Douglas Anderson. 1993. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies. Higgins, Andrew. 2019. “More than Narrative: The Role of Paratexts in the World-Building of Austin Tappan Wright, J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.” Sub-Creating Arda: World-Building in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Work, Its Precursors and Its Legacies. Edited by Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger. Zurich and Jena: Walking Tree Publishers, 395-414. Marchese, Shawn E. and Alan Sisto (2019). Why We Love Middle-Earth. An Enthusiast’s Book about Tolkien, Middle-earth, and the LotR Fandom. New York: Mango Media. Schürer, Norbert. 2023. “Interpreting The Lord of the Rings through Book Covers.” Hither Shore. Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature 20, 8-30. Shippey, T. A. 2001. J. R. R. Tolkien. Author of the Century. London: HarperCollins. Shippey, T. A. 2002. J. R. R. Tolkien. Autor des Jahrhunderts. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Krege. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel. 1981. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Humphrey Carpenter, with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin. Reprinted by Houghton Mifflin (Boston), 2000. Revised edition 2023. Unwin, Rayner. 1999. George Allen & Unwin. A Rememberancer. Ludlow: Merlin Unwin Books.
May 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
evelynkoch.bsky.social
Nicht vergessen - noch bis morgen könnt ihr Abstracts zu "Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt" einreichen. 💙📚
#Tolkien #fantasy #lit #bookstudies #bookhistory #booktok #booksky
tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · Feb 19
📢 #CfP für das 21. #Tolkien Seminar der @germantolksoc.bsky.social in Kooperation mit der #Buchwissenschaft der @unimainz.bsky.social und WTP
📜Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt
🗓️ 31.10.-02.11.2025
📍vor Ort in Mainz oder online
💙📚 #fantasy #bookstudies #bookhistory #lit #booksky
Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt Call for Papers für das 21. DTG Tolkien Seminar (31.10.–02.11. 2025) (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) „Es wäre überaus schwierig, ein Werk anzugeben […], das mit weniger Rücksicht auf kommerzielle Erwägungen geschrieben wurde als Der Herr der Ringe. Kein Marktforscher hätte in den 50er Jahren seinen Erfolg voraussagen können. Es war lang, schwierig, mit einem Schwanz von Anhängen, voller Zitate in unbekannten Sprachen, denen der Autor nicht immer eine Übersetzung beigab, und ganz und gar ungewöhnlich. Es mußte sich seinen Markt überhaupt erst schaffen“ (27), stellt Tom Shippey in J.R.R. Tolkien. Autor des Jahrhunderts fest. Dennoch erwies sich Der Herr der Ringe als millionenfach verkaufter Bestseller, seit 70 Jahren erscheinen weltweit regelmäßig neue Ausgaben und der Roman wurde in Umfragen immer wieder auf Platz 1 der Lieblingsbücher gewählt. Ebenso haben sich Der Hobbit und weitere Werke Tolkiens zu Longsellern entwickelt. Kein Jahr vergeht ohne neue Ausgaben von Tolkiens Werken, darunter sind sowohl aufwändig illustrierte Bände als auch Luxusausgaben. Die Materialität dieser Bücher spielt auch in Zeiten von Social Media und Cross-Media-Marketing eine Rolle, wenn z.B. auf YouTube oder TikTok besondere Tolkien-Ausgaben stolz präsentiert werden oder durch Verlage mit neuen Buchcovern für Tolkien-Adaptionen geworben wird. Dabei war die Beziehung Tolkiens zu seinen Verleger:innen nicht immer einfach, wie sein Verlagswechsel zu Collins oder die unautorisierten US-Ausgaben von Der Herr der Ringe in den 1960ern zeigen. Dies war einerseits Tolkiens Anspruch an sich selbst und seine Texte geschuldet, anderseits den Mechanismen des Buchmarktes. Dass Tolkiens Werke trotzdem einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht wurden und eine treue Leserschaft fanden, ist deshalb keine Selbstverständlichkeit. Ziel dieses Seminars ist es, Forscher:innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und Fachgebieten zusammenzubringen, um die [...] Mögliche Ansatzpunkte für Vorträge wären: • Tolkien und seine Verleger:innen (Beziehungen Tolkiens zu Verleger:innen, Rechte- und Lizenzhandel etc.) • Tolkiens Werke auf dem deutschen/internationalen Buchmarkt • Tolkien-Verfilmungen und der Buchmarkt (Auswirkungen der Adaptionen auf den Verkauf der Werke etc.; Bedeutung der Filme und Serien auf die Wahrnehmung der Bücher) • Die Materialität der Ausgaben und ihrer Paratexte (Ökonomische Bedeutung der Paratexte, Gestaltung der Ausgaben etc.) • Verwendung des Buchs als Motiv • Cross-Media-Marketing, Bücher-Merchandise, Tolkiens Bücher auf Social Media (BookTok, Podcasts etc.) Das 21. Seminar der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft wird von Walking Tree Publishers unterstützt und findet in Zusammenarbeit mit der Mainzer Buchwissenschaft in einem hybriden Format (schwergewichtig in Präsenz aber mit Online-Optionen) vom 31. Oktober bis 02. November 2025 an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz statt. Interessenten werden darum gebeten, ein kurzes Exposé (nicht länger als eine Seite) und eine Kurzbiographie sowie ihre Präferenz (Präsenzteilnahme oder Online-Präsentation) bis zum 31. Mai 2025 an Thomas Fornet-Ponse zu senden: hither-shore@tolkiengesellschaft.de Eine Auswahl von relevanten Publikationen zum Thema: Bushell, Sally. 2016. “Paratext or Imagetext? Interpreting the Fictional Map.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 32 (2), 181-194. Carpenter, Humphrey. 1977. J.R.R. Tolkien. A Biography. Paperback edition 1995. London: HarperCollins. Croft, Janet Brennan. 2018. “Doors into Elf-Mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 15, 177-195. Groom, Nick. 2023. Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century. The Meaning of Middle-earth Today. New York, London: Pegasus Books. Hammond, Wayne G., with the assistance of Douglas Anderson. 1993. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies. Higgins, Andrew. 2019. “More than Narrative: The Role of Paratexts in the World-Building of Austin Tappan Wright, J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.” Sub-Creating Arda: World-Building in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Work, Its Precursors and Its Legacies. Edited by Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger. Zurich and Jena: Walking Tree Publishers, 395-414. Marchese, Shawn E. and Alan Sisto (2019). Why We Love Middle-Earth. An Enthusiast’s Book about Tolkien, Middle-earth, and the LotR Fandom. New York: Mango Media. Schürer, Norbert. 2023. “Interpreting The Lord of the Rings through Book Covers.” Hither Shore. Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature 20, 8-30. Shippey, T. A. 2001. J. R. R. Tolkien. Author of the Century. London: HarperCollins. Shippey, T. A. 2002. J. R. R. Tolkien. Autor des Jahrhunderts. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Krege. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel. 1981. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Humphrey Carpenter, with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin. Reprinted by Houghton Mifflin (Boston), 2000. Revised edition 2023. Unwin, Rayner. 1999. George Allen & Unwin. A Rememberancer. Ludlow: Merlin Unwin Books.
May 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Freshly published!
Unsere Expertin für Bücher zum Hören hat ein Lehr- und Studienbuch verfasst. 😀

Rühr, Sandra (2025): Audiomedien. Listening on the move. Frankfurt am Main.

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March 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Die #BookStudies & die Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe #LitLIA @uni-muenster.de laden herzlich zum Online-Vortrag von Andrew Pettegree (@apettegree.bsky.social) am Di, 2.6., ein: "The Universal Short Title Catalogue and the perils of Big Data", Beginn: 14 Uhr. Mehr Infos: uni.ms/lvsnd

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May 29, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Abstracts for the #Tolkien Seminar can be submitted in English or in German! A selection of the seminar's papers will be published in Hither Shore, the Yearbook of the
@germantolksoc.bsky.social.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I know our collective consciousness can only handle so much, but we need to talk about Google news alerts: namely, what happens to the results when the book illustrator you study shares a name with an AI startup founder... #bookstudies #illustrationstudies
February 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Nice story about #bookstudies at Oberlin, with a guest appearance by the very first work of Star Trek fan-fic
www.oberlin.edu/news/between...
June 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Call for nominations for the Menno Hertzberger Prize 2026 in Book Studies of the Low Countries broadly considered (also looking at you specialists of print or cartography). Please nominate a colleague (or yourself!) either for Best Book or for the Encouragement Prize 1/8 #bookhistory #bookstudies
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November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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📢 21st Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social
📜Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market
📅31 October-02 November 2025, @unimainz.bsky.social
🌐Attendance in-person or online is free
#Tolkien #bookstudies 💙📚 #lit #litwiss #fantasy #bookhistory #booksky
Tolkiens Werk auf dem Buchmarkt Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e. V./German Tolkien Society in Kooperation mit dem/in co-operation with Department of Book Studies/Abteilung für Buchwissenschaft (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) und Walking Tree Publishers 31. Oktober - 02. November 2025 Vorläufiges Programm/Provisional Programme Freitag, 31. Oktober 2025 15.00 Registration opens 16.00 Eröffnung/Opening 16.15 Allan Turner (p): Tolkien and his Publishers 17.00 Jonathan Nauman (p): Tolkien and the Unwins – Creation and Commercial Negotiation Abendessen im Mali&Milo (Große Bleiche 29; Voranmeldung erforderlich bis zum 24. Oktober bei tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de /Dinner at Mali&Milo (Große Bleiche 29; please register till 24 October with tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de) Samstag, 01. November 2025 09.30 Norbert Schürer (p): Advertising Tolkien in Newspapers and Magazines 10.15 Ralf Tornow: Tolkien – Ein Blick in den verlegerischen Maschinenraum 11.00 Pause/Break 11.15 Robin Auer: A Book of Both Worlds – The Lord of the Rings and the Primary World Experience of Secondary Worlds 12.00 Mittagspause/Lunch Break 14.15 Magdalena Mączyńska (p): Reading Arda and its Inhabitants – Tolkien’s Book of Stories 15:00 Pause/Break 15.45 Filip R. Zahariev (p): Tolkien on the Tabletop Role-Playing Game Market: Free League’s The One Ring™ (2021) Adaptation 16.30 Annika Röttinger & Tobias Eckrich (p): Zwischen Fußnote und Fandom: Der Podcast Tolkiens Briefe als kommentierte Werkausgabe für die Ohren 17.30 Präsentation neuer Veröffentlichungen und Verleihung des Ehrendoktortitels Abendessen im Wirtshaus Zenz (Bahnhofsplatz 4; Voranmeldung erforderlich bis zum 24. Oktober bei tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de )/Dinner at Wirtshaus Zenz (Bahnhofsplatz 4; please register till 24 October with tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de) Sonntag, 02. November 2025 9.30 Sonja Virta (v): Different ways of revising Finnish Tolkien translations: the case of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion in Finnish 10.15 Marius Wagner (v): Das Warten auf einen Klassiker: Die Deutschen Übersetzungen von Tolkiens Der (kleine) Hobbit 11.00 Pause/Break 11.30 Schlußdiskussion/Final Discussion
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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📢 Programm zum Seminar der @germantolksoc.bsky.social
📜Tolkiens Werk auf dem Buchmarkt
📅31.10.-02.11.2025, @unimainz.bsky.social
🌐Teilnahme vor Ort oder online ist kostenlos
#Tolkien #bookstudies 💙📚 #lit #litwiss #fantasy #bookhistory #booksky
Tolkiens Werk auf dem Buchmarkt Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e. V./German Tolkien Society in Kooperation mit dem/in co-operation with Department of Book Studies/Abteilung für Buchwissenschaft (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) und Walking Tree Publishers 31. Oktober - 02. November 2025 Vorläufiges Programm/Provisional Programme Freitag, 31. Oktober 2025 15.00 Registration opens 16.00 Eröffnung/Opening 16.15 Allan Turner (p): Tolkien and his Publishers 17.00 Jonathan Nauman (p): Tolkien and the Unwins – Creation and Commercial Negotiation Abendessen im Mali&Milo (Große Bleiche 29; Voranmeldung erforderlich bis zum 24. Oktober bei tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de /Dinner at Mali&Milo (Große Bleiche 29; please register till 24 October with tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de) Samstag, 01. November 2025 09.30 Norbert Schürer (p): Advertising Tolkien in Newspapers and Magazines 10.15 Ralf Tornow: Tolkien – Ein Blick in den verlegerischen Maschinenraum 11.00 Pause/Break 11.15 Robin Auer: A Book of Both Worlds – The Lord of the Rings and the Primary World Experience of Secondary Worlds 12.00 Mittagspause/Lunch Break 14.15 Magdalena Mączyńska (p): Reading Arda and its Inhabitants – Tolkien’s Book of Stories 15:00 Pause/Break 15.45 Filip R. Zahariev (p): Tolkien on the Tabletop Role-Playing Game Market: Free League’s The One Ring™ (2021) Adaptation 16.30 Annika Röttinger & Tobias Eckrich (p): Zwischen Fußnote und Fandom: Der Podcast Tolkiens Briefe als kommentierte Werkausgabe für die Ohren 17.30 Präsentation neuer Veröffentlichungen und Verleihung des Ehrendoktortitels Abendessen im Wirtshaus Zenz (Bahnhofsplatz 4; Voranmeldung erforderlich bis zum 24. Oktober bei tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de )/Dinner at Wirtshaus Zenz (Bahnhofsplatz 4; please register till 24 October with tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de) Sonntag, 02. November 2025 9.30 Sonja Virta (v): Different ways of revising Finnish Tolkien translations: the case of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion in Finnish 10.15 Marius Wagner (v): Das Warten auf einen Klassiker: Die Deutschen Übersetzungen von Tolkiens Der (kleine) Hobbit 11.00 Pause/Break 11.30 Schlußdiskussion/Final Discussion
September 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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"Bookselling as Resistance": Die #BookStudies am Englischen Seminar @uni-muenster.de laden vom 10. bis 12. September zu einer internationalen Tagung mit Keynote von @antiquariat-solder.bsky.social ein. Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/2823/
Bookselling as Resistance (BRN 2025)
CFP: Bookselling as Resistance September 10-12, 2025 Conference in Münster, Germany, combined with the annual meeting of the Bookselling Research Network (BRN) supported by the German Research Foundat...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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📢 #CfP for the 21st #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Department of #BookStudies of the @unimainz.bsky.social and WTP
📜Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market
🗓️ 31 Oct-02 Nov 2025
📍in-person in Mainz or online
💙📚 #fantasy #bookhistory #lit #booksky
Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market Call for Papers for the 21st DTG Tolkien Seminar (31 Oct.-02 Nov. 2025) (Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz) “It is in fact hard to think of a work […] written with less concern for commercial considerations than The Lord of the Rings. No market researcher in the 1950s could possibly have predicted its success. It was long, difficult, trailed with appendices, studded with quotations in unknown languages which the author did not always translate, and utterly strange. It had, indeed, to create its own market” (Shippey 2001: xxiv), as Tom Shippey describes the situation in J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century. Nevertheless, The Lord of the Rings proved to be a million-selling bestseller, new editions have been regularly published worldwide for 70 years and the epic has repeatedly been voted the number one favourite book in surveys. The Hobbit and other works by Tolkien have also become long-sellers. Not a year goes by without new editions of Tolkien’s works, including both lavishly illustrated volumes and luxury editions. The materiality of these books also plays a role in times of social media and cross-media marketing, for example when special Tolkien editions are proudly presented on YouTube or TikTok or publishers advertise Tolkien adaptations with new book covers. Tolkien’s relationship with his publishers was not always easy, as his abortive attempt to change the publisher from Unwin to Collins or the unauthorised US editions of The Lord of the Rings in the 1960s show. This was partly due to Tolkien’s demands on himself and his texts, and partly due to the mechanisms of the book market. The fact that Tolkien’s works were nevertheless made accessible to a broad public and found a loyal readership is therefore not a matter of course. The aim of this seminar is to bring together researchers from different disciplines and subject areas to explore the various questions and problems posed by Tolkien’s works on the book market. Possible starting points for presentations would be: • Tolkien and his publishers (Tolkien’s relationships with publishers, rights and license trading, etc.) • Tolkien’s works on the German/international book market • Tolkien film adaptations and the book market (effects of the adaptations on the sale of the works etc.; significance of the films and series for the perception of the books) • The materiality of the editions and their paratexts (economic significance of the paratexts, design of the editions, etc.) • Use of the book as a motif • Cross-media marketing, book merchandise, Tolkien’s books on social media (BookTok, podcasts etc.) The 21st seminar of the German Tolkien Society is supported by Walking Tree Publishers and will take place in cooperation with the Department of Book Science in a hybrid format (mainly in presence but with online options) from 31 October to 2 November 2025 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Interested parties are requested to send a short synopsis (no longer than one page) and a short biography as well as their preference (attendance or online presentation) to Thomas Fornet-Ponse by 31 May 2025: hither-shore@tolkiengesellschaft.de A selection of relevant publications on the topic: Bushell, Sally. 2016. “Paratext or Imagetext? Interpreting the Fictional Map.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 32 (2), 181-194. Carpenter, Humphrey. 1977. J.R.R. Tolkien. A Biography. Paperback edition 1995. London: HarperCollins. Croft, Janet Brennan. 2018. “Doors into Elf-Mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 15, 177-195. Groom, Nick. 2023. Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century. The Meaning of Middle-earth Today. New York, London: Pegasus Books. Hammond, Wayne G., with the assistance of Douglas Anderson. 1993. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies. Higgins, Andrew. 2019. “More than Narrative [...]"
February 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Wer online teilnehmen möchte, kann sich hier anmelden:
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Tolkiens Werke auf dem Buchmarkt – Tolkien Seminar 2025
Vom 31. Oktober bis 2. November 2025 findet wieder das jährliche Tolkien Seminar der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft mit Unterstützung der Walking Tree Publishers statt, diesmal in Kooperation mit der ...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM