Will Sherwood

Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 11:17 UTC

My copy of 'The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R Tolkien' is here! Huge thanks to Julian and @willsherwood.bsky.social for all their hard work!
(And check out my chapter on Tolkien and Blake's visual art.)
#Tolkien #Blake

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 21, 2024 at 11:05 UTC

Registration for this year's free #Tolkien Society hybrid seminar on Saturday 6th July is now open! The theme is 'Tolkien's #Romantic Resonances' and all papers will be recorded and uploaded onto the Society's YouTube channel afterwards. #Romanticism #Legacy

www.tolkiensociety.org/events/the-t...

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

That's exactly what happened to me. It was a delightful surprise!

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 25, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

Happy #TolkienReadingDay! My editor's copy of 'The #Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. #Tolkien' arrived! #Romanticism #Fantasy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4F...

Available at WTP: walking-tree.org/books/the_ro...

Listen/watch my introduction to the book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWu...

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 15, 2024 at 14:16 UTC

Sharing these beauties by @jennydolfen.bsky.social to brighten your day :)

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

Imagine the #Nazgûl theme playing over this:

Look at that sexy cover by Jay Johnstone! '#Tolkien and the #Gothic' out 26th March by @lunapress.bsky.social. It contains 7 papers by presenters from the Tolkien Society's 2022 seminar. #LotR #Hobbit #Middleearth

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 08, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

#Tolkien’s and #Blake’s mythologies are often compared but what does actually tell us about them? What do we learn about each author in turn? Listen to myself,
@sharonchoe.bsky.social, @urthonaunbound.bsky.social, and Jason Whittaker as we interrogate and try to answer these questions. #Romanticism

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 09:27 UTC

The Tolkien Society seminar CfP window has been extended to Sunday 31st March! The theme is 'Tolkien's Romantic Resonances' and it will be free for all to present at/attend on Saturday 6th July in as hybrid (in person and online).

www.tolkiensociety.org/events/the-t...

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

Hot damn, Blake wasn't messing about!

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 22, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

The new blog post in my 'How the Victorians (Re)made the Romantics' is now live. In this one I look at how the Pre-Raphaelites contributed to renovating Blake's and Keats's reputations.

will-sherwood.com/2024/02/22/h...

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 22, 2024 at 11:19 UTC

Delighted to announce that my paper 'Destabilising Temporality in the Fairy Poems of Keats and Tolkien' has been accepted for Keats Foundation's conference this May at the Keats House!

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 17, 2024 at 22:33 UTC

Amazing, thank you for summarising.

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 17, 2024 at 22:21 UTC

I'm now determined to somehow include this! Thanks.

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 17, 2024 at 21:56 UTC

Yep, BB was what sparked my interest. I'm not familiar with Watchmen but comics are a welcome inclusion! Where would you recommend starting with Shelley's Ozy in Watchmen?

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 17, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

I'm on the hunt for modern intertextual references to Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias poem. It's for an ongoing project. The more media the better from any genre/form (poems, novellas, novels, games, TV, films, songs, opera etc. etc.) The more recommendations the better. Send them over folks!

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 07, 2024 at 21:42 UTC

Ligeti and fantasy mapmaking 😱

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 05, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

Recordings are now up for the Tolkien Society's seminar 'Tolkien and Religion'! Watch, watch again, watch-watch-watch on repeat to your heart's content. There are also recordings from a lot of our other seminars as well!

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 04, 2024 at 19:01 UTC

Personally, I love Jansson's Gollum. Tolkien didn't work out that S/G was a hobbit straight away, it took a few drafts to get there. Here we have a fascinating insight into how Tolkien's original description (1937) could be interpreted. It evokes the 'weird' in Middle-earth.

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