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    Tolkien Studies [v2, 2005] ed. Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout (West Virginia University Press, $60.00, x+326pp, hc)
    Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson.
    • v · Editors’ Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout · ed
    • vii · Conventions and Abbreviations · Anon. · ms
    • 1 · “And She Named Her Own Name”: Being True to One’s Word in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth · Richard C. West · cr
    • 11 · Richard C. West: A Checklist · Douglas A. Anderson · bi
    • 15 · Parallel Lives: The Sons of Denethor and the Sons of Telamon · Miryam Librán-Moreno · cr
    • 53 · The White City: “The Lord of the Rings” as an Early Medieval Myth of the Restoration of the Roman Empire · Judy Ann Ford · cr
    • 75 · World Creation as Colonization: British Imperialism in “Aldarion and Erendis” · Elizabeth Massa Hoiem · cr
    • 93 · “Tricksy Lights”: Literary and Folkloric Elements in Tolkien’s Passage of the Dead Marshes · Margaret Sinex · cr
    • 113 · Tolkien and Modernism · Patchen Mortimer · cr
    • 131 · Tolkien, King Alfred, and Boethius: Platonist Views of Evil in “The Lord of the Rings” · John Wm. Houghton & Neal K. Keesee · cr
    • 161 · A Definitive Identification of Tolkien’s “Borgil”: An Astronomical and Literary Approach · Kristine Larsen · cr
    • 171 · Love: “The Gift of Death” · Linda Greenwood · cr
    • 197 · Tolkien’s Imaginary Nature: An Analysis of the Structure of Middle-earth · Michael J. Brisbois · cr
    • 217 · Obituary: Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005) · Douglas A. Anderson · bg
    • 225 · The Birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien · Beth Russell · cr
    • 230 · J.R.R. Tolkien and W. Rhys Roberts’s “Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh” · Douglas A. Anderson · cr
    • 235 · Gilraen’s Linnod: Function, Genre, Prototype · Sandra Ballif Straubhaar · cr
    • 245 · Little Nell and Frodo the Halfling · Dale Nelson · cr
    • 249 · The Alphabet of Rumil & Early Noldorin Fragment (2001) by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Arden R. Smith, Christopher Gilson, Bill Welden, Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick Wynne; and Early Qenya & Valmaric (2003) by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Patrick Wynne, Christopher Gilson, Carl F. Hostetter, Bill Welden, and Arden R. Smith · John Garth · br
    • 253 · Following Gandalf (2003) by Matthew T. Dickerson · Joe R. Christopher · br
    • 256 · The Real Middle-earth (2003) by Brian Bates · Brad Eden · br
    • 258 · The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition (2003) by Tom Shippey · Gergely Nagy · br
    • 261 · Tales Before Tolkien (2003), ed. Douglas A. Anderson · Charles E. Noad · br
    • 262 · Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon (2003) by Brian Rosebury · Jane Chance · br
    • 266 · Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship (2003) by Colin Duriez · Mike Foster · br
    • 268 · Tolkien and the Great War (2003) by John Garth · Brian Rosebury · br
    • 271 · The Tolkien Fan’s Medieval Reader (2004), ed. Turgon · Jane Chance · br
    • 273 · Tolkien in the Land of Heroes (2003), by Anne C. Petty · Alexandra Bolintineanu · br
    • 277 · Tolkien the Medievalist (2003), ed. Jane Chance · Shaun F. D. Hughes · br
    • 285 · Tolkien through Russian Eyes (2003) by Mark T. Hooker · Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley · br
    • 288 · Addenda and Corrigenda to the 2001-2002 “Tolkien Studies” Bibliography · Anon. · bi
    • 289 · The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2001-2002 · David Bratman · es
    • 317 · Bibliography (in English) for 2003 · Michael D. C. Drout & Melissa Smith-Macdonald · bi
    • 323 · Notes on Contributors · Anon. · bg


    Tolkien Studies [v3, 2006] ed. Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout (West Virginia University Press, $60.00, x+278pp, hc)
    Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson.
    • v · Editors’ Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout · ed
    • vii · In Memoriam, Karen Wynn Fonstad and Dan Timmons · Anon. · bg
    • viii · Conventions and Abbreviations · Anon. · ms
    • 1 · Fitting Sense to Sound: Linguistic Aesthetics and Phonosemantics in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien · Ross Smith · es
    • 21 · The Text Tale of Frodo the Nine-fingered: Residual Oral Patterning in “The Lord of the Rings” · Maria Prozesky · cr
    • 45 · Dream Visions in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” · Amy M. Amendt-Raduege · cr
    • 57 · The “Lost” Subject of Middle-earth: The Constitution of the Subject in the Figure of Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” · Gergely Nagy · cr
    • 81 · Three Is Company: Novel, Fairy Tale, and Romance on the Journey through the Shire · Martin Simonson · cr
    • 101 · Beowulf as Fairy-Story: Enchanting the Elegiac in “The Two Towers” · Richard W. Fehrenbacher · cr
    • 117 · Barbarians and Imperialism in Tacitus and “The Lord of the Rings” · James Obertino · cr
    • 133 · Writing “TO” the Map · Karen Wynn Fonstad · cr
    • 137 · R.W. Chambers and “The Hobbit” · Douglas A. Anderson · cr
    • 149 · A Spliced Old English Quotation in “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” · Michael D. C. Drout · cr
    • 153 · “The tree took me up from the ground and carried me off ”: A Source for Tolkien’s Ents in Ludvig Holberg’s “Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground” · James I. McNellis, III · cr
    • 157 · Si Qente Feanor & Other Elvish Writings (2004) by J,R.R. Tolkien, ed. Arden R. Smith, Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne and Bill Welden · John Garth · br
    • 160 · Smith of Wootton Major: Expanded Edition (2005) by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Verlyn Flieger · Paul Edmund Thomas · br
    • 166 · Gateway to Sindarin (2004) by David Salo · Sandra Ballif Straubhaar · br
    • 173 · Interrupted Music (2005) by Verlyn Flieger · Gergely Nagy · br
    • 178 · MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 2004: “J.R.R. Tolkien Special Issue” ed. Shaun F.D. Hughes · Robin Anne Reid · br
    • 182 · The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion (2005) by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull · David Bratman · br
    • 187 · Perilous Realms (2005) by Marjorie Burns · Dimitra Fimi · br
    • 190 · Reconsidering Tolkien (2005) ed. Thomas Honegger · Janet Brennan Croft · br
    • 194 · The Science of Middle-earth (2004) by Henry Gee · Amy Amendt-Raduege · br
    • 196 · Tolkien, les raciness du legendaire (2003) ed. Michael Devaux and Tolkien, trente ans après (1973-2003) (2004), ed. Vincent Ferre · Shaun F. D. Hughes · br
    • 205 · Tolkien and the Invention of Myth (2004) ed. Jane Chance · Margaret Sinex · br
    • 218 · Tolkien in Translation (2003) ed. Thomas Honegger and Translating Tolkien (2004) ed. Thomas Honegger · David Doughan · br
    • 222 · Tolkien on Film (2004) ed. Janet Brennan Croft · Kristin Thompson · br
    • 228 · Translating Tolkien (2005) by Allan Lang · Arden R. Smith · br
    • 232 · Unsung Heroes of “The Lord of the Rings” (2005) by Lynnette R. Porter · Richard C. West · br
    • 234 · War in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2004) by Janet Brennan Croft · John Garth · br
    • 238 · Book Notes · Douglas A. Anderson · bi
    • 241 · The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2003 · David Bratman · es
    • 267 · Bibliography (in English) for 2004 · Marcel R. Bulles, Michael D. C. Drout & Rebecca Epstein · bi
    • 276 · Addenda and Corrigenda to Bibliography (in English) for 2003 · Anon. · bi
    • 277 · Contributor Notes · Anon. · bg


    Tolkien Studies [v4, 2007] ed. Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout (West Virginia University Press, $60.00, x+368pp, hc)
    Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson.
    • v · Editors’ Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout · ed
    • viii · Conventions and Abbreviations · Anon. · ms
    • 1 · Tolkienian Linguistics: The First Fifty Years · Carl F. Hostetter · cr
    • 47 · Carl F. Hostetter: A Checklist · Douglas A. Anderson · bi
    • 51 · Tolkien’s “Celtic type of legends”: Merging Traditions · Dimitra Fimi · cr
    • 73 · Greek and Latin Amatory Motifs in Éowyn’s Portrayal · Miryam Librán-Moreno · cr
    • 99 · The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow: Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-earth · Verlyn Flieger · cr
    • 113 · J.R.R. Tolkien’s Medieval Scholarship and Its Significance · Michael D. C. Drout · cr
    • 177 · The Name “Nodens” · J. R. R. Tolkien · es (r); Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire (1932), by R.E.M. Wheeler and T.V. Wheeler.
    • 184 · Walter E. Haigh, Author of “A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect” · Janet Brennan Croft · cr
    • 189 · “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth”: Philology and the Literary Muse · Thomas Honegger · cr
    • 200 · Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (In Its Pre-Shire Den) · Marjorie Burns · cr
    • 212 · “Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She”: Some Notes on a Note in Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” · Yvette L. Kisor · cr
    • 223 · SAURON, Mount Doom, and Elvish Moths: The Influence of Tolkien on Modern Science · Kristine Larsen · cr
    • 235 · The Company They Keep (2007) by Diana Glyer · Dale J. Nelson · br
    • 238 · Ents, Elves, and Eriador (2006) by Matthew T. Dickerson and Jonathan Evans · Patrick Curry · br
    • 244 · From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” (2006), ed. Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance, and The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context (2006), ed. Ernest Mathijs · Kristin Thompson · br
    • 255 · The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Volume I: Chronology, Volume II: Reader’s Guide (2006) Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond · John Garth · br
    • 266 · J.R R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (2007), ed. Michael D.C. Drout · Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley · br
    • 278 · The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien (2005), by Stuart D. Lee and Elizabeth Solopova · John R. Holmes · br
    • 282 · The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder (2006), ed. Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull · Brian Rosebury · br
    • 288 · The Philosophy of Tolkien. The Worldview behind “The Lord of the Rings” (2005) by Peter Kreeft · Matthew A. Fisher · br
    • 290 · The Plants of Middle-earth: Botany and Sub-creation (2006) by Diana Hazell · Amy M. Amendt-Raduege · br
    • 293 · The Power of the Ring. The Spiritual Vision Behind “The Lord of the Rings” (2005) by Stratford Caldecott · Mike Foster · br
    • 297 · Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: New Writings on Tolkien’s Classic (2005) ed. Robert Eaglestone · Patrick Curry · br
    • 302 · The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (2006) by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner · Douglas A. Anderson · br
    • 304 · The Rise of Tolkienian Fantasy (2005) by Jared Lobdell · Matthew T. Dickerson · br
    • 307 · The Roots of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth (2006) by Robert S. Blackham · Tom Shippey · br
    • 311 · A Tolkienian Mathomium: A Collection of Articles about J.R.R. Tolkien and His Legendarium (2006) by Mark T. Hooker · Sandra Ballif Straubhaar · br
    • 314 · Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages (2005) ed. Jane Chance and Alfred Siewers · Robin Anne Reid · br
    • 323 · Book Notes · Douglas A. Anderson · bi
    • 325 · The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2004 · David Bratman · es
    • 355 · Bibliography (in English) for 2005 · Michael D. C. Drout, Rebecca Epstein & Kathryn Paar · bi
    • 366 · Notes on Contributors · Anon. · bg


    Tolkien Studies [v5, 2008] ed. Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout (West Virginia University Press, $60.00, x+310pp, hc)
    Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson.
    • v · Editors’ Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout · ed
    • vii · In Memoriam: Austin G. Olney and Ruth K. Hapgood · Anon. · bg
    • viii · Conventions and Abbreviations · Anon. · ms
    • 1 · Revenge and Moral Judgement in Tolkien · Brian Rosebury · cr
    • 21 · Brian Rosebury on J.R.R. Tolkien: A Checklist · Douglas A. Anderson · bi
    • 23 · “With chunks of poetry in between”: “The Lord of the Rings” and Saga Poetics · Carl Phelpstead · cr
    • 39 · The Myth of the Ent and the Entwife · Corey Olsen · cr
    • 55 · Showing Saruman as Faber: Tolkien and Peter Jackson · James G. Davis · cr
    • 73 · Boromir, Byrhtnoth, and Bayard: Finding a Language for Grief in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” · Lynn Forest-Hill · cr
    • 99 · Three Rings for-Whom Exactly? And Why? Justifying the Disposition of the Three Elven Rings · Jason Fisher · cr
    • 109 · Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve’s Tale · J. R. R. Tolkien · ar 1934; from Transactions of the Philosophical Society.
    • 173 · The Reeve’s Tale · Geoffrey Chaucer; edited by J. R. R. Tolkien · ss 1939; from The Reeve’s Tale.
    • 185 · Steiner on Tolkien · Ross Smith · ar
    • 186 · Tolkien, Oxford’s Eccentric Don · George Steiner; translated by Ross Smith · ar; translated from the French (Le Monde, 6 September 1973).
    • 189 · The Children of Hurin (2007) by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien · Nicholas Birns · br
    • 200 · Early Elvish Poetry and Pre- Fëanorian Alphabets (2006) by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Arden R. Smith, Christopher Gilson, Bill Welden, Carl F. Hostetter, and Patrick H. Wynne · John Garth · br
    • 205 · The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology (2007) by Elizabeth A. Whittingham · Deidre A. Dawson · br
    • 209 · The Frodo Franchise: “The Lord of the Rings” and Modern Hollywood (2007) by Kristin Thompson · Dyrk Ashton · br
    • 214 · The History of the Hobbit: Part One: Mr. Baggins and Part Two: The Return to Bag End (2007) by John D. Rateliff · Tom Shippey · br
    • 221 · Hither Shore: Interdisciplinary Journal of Modern Fantasy Literature, volume one 2004 (2005), volume two 2005 (2006), and volume three 2006 (2007) · Mark T. Hooker · br
    • 229 · Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien (2007) by Ross Smith · Dimitra Fimi · br
    • 233 · Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien (2007) by Tom Shippey · Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley · br
    • 244 · Tolkien and Modernity 1 and 2 (2006) ed. Frank Weinreich and Thomas Honegger · Shaun F. D. Hughes · br
    • 257 · Tolkien and Shakespeare (2007) ed. Janet Brennan Croft · Jared Lobdell · br
    • 266 · Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature and Theology (2007) ed. Trevor Hart and Ivan Khovacs · Michael J. Brisbois · br
    • 269 · Book Notes · Douglas A. Anderson · bi
    • 271 · The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2005 · David Bratman · es
    • 299 · Bibliography (in English) for 2006 · Michael D. C. Drout, Jason Rea, Rebecca Epstein & Lauren Provost · bi
    • 309 · Notes on Contributors · Anon. · bg


    Tolkien Studies [v6, 2009] ed. Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout (West Virginia University Press, $60.00, x+363pp, hc)
    Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson.
    • v · Editors’ Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger & Michael D. C. Drout · ed
    • vii · In Memoriam: Pauline Baynes and Derek Brewer · Anon. · bg
    • viii · Conventions and Abbreviations · Anon. · ms
    • 1 · “A Kind of Elvish Craft”: Tolkien as Literary Craftsman · John D. Rateliff · cr
    • 22 · John D. Rateliff: A Checklist · Douglas A. Anderson · bi
    • 27 · Talk to the Dragon: Tolkien as Translator · Armann Jakobsson · cr
    • 41 · A “Clerkes Compleinte”: Tolkien and the Division of Lit. and Lang. · Jill Fitzgerald · cr
    • 59 · Echoes of Pearl in Arda’s Landscape · Stefan Ekman · cr
    • 71 · Councils and Kings: Aragorn’s Journey Towards Kingship in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” · Judy Ann Ford & Robin Anne Reid · cr
    • 91 · The Unique Representation of Trees in “The Lord of the Rings” · Cynthia M. Cohen · ar
    • 127 · Clinamen, Tessera, and the Anxiety of Influence: Swerving from and Completing George MacDonald · Josh Long · cr
    • 151 · The Music and the Task: Fate and Free Will in Middle-earth · Verlyn Flieger · cr
    • 183 · Fate and Free Will · J. R. R. Tolkien; edited by Carl F. Hostetter · es
    • 189 · J.R.R. Tolkien and The Wanderer: From Edition to Application · Stuart D. Lee · cr
    • 213 · Essence of Elvish: The Basic Vocabulary of Quenya · Christopher Gilson · cr
    • 241 · Tolkien on Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition (2008) by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson · Colin Manlove · br
    • 248 · Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in “The Lord of the Rings” (2007) by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Gilson · John Garth · br
    • 255 · Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published “Silmarillion” (2009) by Douglas Charles Kane · Nicholas Birns · br
    • 260 · Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real (2009) by Alison Milbank · Mike Foster · br
    • 264 · The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition (2008) by Martin Simonson · Jason Fisher · br
    • 272 · The Mirror Crack’d: Fear and Horror in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Major Works (2008) ed Lynn Forest-Hill · John William Houghton · br
    • 277 · Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings (2007) ed. Eduardo Segura and Thomas Honegger · Corey Olsen · br
    • 283 · The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On (2008) ed. Allan Turner · Anne C. Petty · br
    • 289 · Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (2009) by Dimitra Fimi · Thomas Honegger · br
    • 294 · Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”: Sources of Inspiration (2008) ed. Stratford Caldecott and Thomas Honegger · Gerald Seaman · br
    • 299 · Tolkien’s Oxford (2008) by Robert S. Blackham · David Doughan · br
    • 302 · Tolkien’s Shorter Works (2008) ed. Margaret Hiley and Frank Weinreich · John D. Rateliff · br
    • 309 · Truth’s Breathed Through Silver (2008) ed. Jonathan B. Himes with Joe R. Christopher and Salwa Khoddam · Richard C. West · br
    • 312 · Book Notes · Douglas A. Anderson · bi
    • 315 · The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2006 · David Bratman · es
    • 345 · Bibliography (in English) for 2007 · Jason Rea, Kathryn Paar & Michael D. C. Drout · bi
    • 361 · Notes on Contributors · Anon. · bg


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