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Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review Volume 9 - Digital Edition


Tolkien Studies Volume 9

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Peter Grybauskas: Untold Tales: Solving a Literary Dilemma
  • Gerard Hynes: “Beneath the Earth’s Dark Keel”: Tolkien and Geology
  • Douglas C. Kane: Law and Arda
  • Amelia A. Rutledge: “Justice is not Healing”: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Pauline Constructs in “Finwë and Míriel”
  • Verlyn Flieger: Book Reviews
  • David Bratman and Merlin DeTardo: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2009
  • Rebecca Epstein, with Michael D.C. Drout, David Bratman, and Merlin DeTardo: Bibliography (in English) for 2009

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review Volume 8 - Digital Edition


Tolkien Studies Volume 8

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Philip Irving Mitchell: “Legend and History Have Met and Fused”: The Interlocution of Anthropology, Historiography, and Incarnation in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories”
  • John M. Bowers: Tolkien’s Goldberry and The Maid of the Moor
  • Lucas Annear: Language in Tolkien’s “Bagme Bloma”
  • José Manuel Ferrández Bru: “Wingless fluttering”: Some Personal Connections in Tolkien’s Formative Years
  • John Garth: Robert Quilter Gilson, T.C.B.S.: A Brief Life in Letters
  • Janet Brennan Croft: The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training Corps
  • Douglas A. Anderson: Book Reviews
  • Deidre A. Dawson: Review-Essay: The Ring Goes Ever On
  • David Bratman and Merlin DeTardo: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2008
  • Rebecca Epstein and David Bratman with Michael D.C. Drout, Merlin DeTardo, and Douglas A. Anderson: Bibliography (in English) for 2009

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review Volume 7 - Digital Edition


Tolkien Studies Volume 7

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Vladimir Brljak: The Books of Lost Tales: Tolkien as Metafictionist
  • Peter Kristof Makai: Faërian Cyberdrama: When Fantasy becomes Virtual Reality
  • Michael Milburn: Coleridge’s Definition of Imagination and Tolkien’s Definition(s) of Faery
  • Thomas Fornet-Ponse: “Strange and free” —On Some Aspects of the Nature of Elves and Men
  • Mary R. Bowman: Refining the Gold: Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and the Northern Theory of Courage
  • Thomas Honegger: Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation in Sir Orfeo: The Medieval Foundations of Tolkienian Fantasy
  • Sherrylyn Branchaw: Elladan and Elrohir: The Dioscuri in The Lord of the Rings
  • Yoko Hemmi: Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and His Concept of Native Language: Sindarin and British-Welsh
  • Margaret Sinex: “Monsterized Saracens,” Tolkien’s Haradrim, and Other Medieval “Fantasy Products”
  • Kristine Larsen: Myth, Milky Way, and the Mysteries of Tolkien’s Morwinyon, Telumendil, and Anarríma
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: “The Story of Kullervo” and Essays on Kalevala, Transcribed and edited by Verlyn Flieger 
  • John Garth: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Fairies
  • Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2007
  • Rebecca Epstein, Michael D.C. Drout, and David Bratman: Bibliography (in English) for 2008

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review Volume 6 - Digital Edition


Tolkien Studies Volume 6

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • John D. Rateliff: “A Kind Of Elvish Craft”: Tolkien as Literary Craftsman
  • Douglas A. Anderson: John D. Rateliff: A Checklist
  • Ármann Jakobsson: Talk to the Dragon: Tolkien as Translator
  • Jill Fitzgerald: A “Clerkes Compleinte”: Tolkien and the Division of Lit. and Lang.
  • Stefan Ekman: Echoes of Pearl in Arda’s Landscape
  • Judy Ann Ford and Robin Anne Reid: 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
  • Cynthia M. Cohen: The Unique Representation of Trees in The Lord of the Rings
  • Josh Long: Clinamen, Tessera, and the Anxiety Of Influence: Swerving From and Completing George Macdonald
  • Verlyn Flieger: The Music and the Task: Fate and Free Will in Middleearth
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: Fate and Free Will, Edited By Carl F. Hostetter
  • Stuart D. Lee: J.R.R. Tolkien and The Wanderer: From Edition to Application
  • Christopher Gilson: Essence of Elvish: The Basic Vocabulary of Quenya
  • Douglas A. Anderson: Book Reviews
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
  • Jason Rea, Kathryn Paar, And Michael D. C. Drout: Bibliography (In English) for 2007

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review Volume 5 - Digital Edition


Tolkien Studies Volume 5

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Brian Rosebury: Revenge and Moral Judgement in Tolkien
  • Douglas A. Anderson: Rosebury on Tolkien: A Checklist
  • Carl Phelpstead: "With chunks of poetry in between": The Lord of the Rings and Saga Poetics
  • Corey Olsen: The Myth of the Ent and the Entwife
  • James G. Davis: Showing Saruman as Faber: Tolkien and Peter Jackson
  • Lynn Forest-Hill: Boromir, Byrhtnoth, and Bayard: Finding a Language for Grief in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
  • Jason Fisher: Three Rings For Whom Exactly? Justifying the Disposition of the Three Elven Rings
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: The Reeve's Tale
  • Ross Smith: Steiner on Tolkien
  • George Steiner, trans. Ross Smith: Tolkien, Oxford's Eccentric Don
  • Book Reviews, compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • Michael D.C. Drout, Jason Rea, Rebecca Epstein, and Lauren Provost: Bibliography (in English) for 2006
     

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review Volume 4 - Digital Edition


Tolkien Studies Volume 4

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Carl F. Hostetter: Tolkienian Linguistics: The First Fifty Years
  • Douglas A. Anderson: Carl F. Hostetter: A Checklist
  • Dimitra Fimi: Tolkien’s “‘Celtic’ type of legends”: Merging Traditions
  • Miryam Librán-Moreno: Greek and Latin Amatory Motifs in Éowyn’s Portrayal
  • Verlyn Flieger: The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow: Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-earth
  • Michael D. C. Drout: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Medieval Scholarship and its Significance
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: The Name “Nodens”
  • Janet Brennan Croft: Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect
  • Thomas Honegger: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Philology and the Literary Muse
  • Marjorie Burns: Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (In Its Pre-Shire Den) 
  • Yvette L. Kisor: “Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She”: Some Notes on a Note in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
  • Kristine Larsen: SAURON, Mount Doom, and Elvish Moths: The Influence of Tolkien on Modern Science 
  • Douglas A. Anderson: Book Reviews
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
  • Michael D. C. Drout, Rebecca Epstein, and Kathryn Paar: Bibliography (in English) for 2005

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review Volume 3 - Digital Edition


Tolkien Studies Volume 3

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Ross Smith: Fitting Sense to Sound: Linguistic Aesthetics and Phonosemantics in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Maria Prozesky: The Text Tale of Frodo the Nine-fingered: Residual Oral Patterning in The Lord of the Rings
  • Amy M. Amendt-Raduege: Dream Visions in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
  • Gergely Nagy: The ‘Lost’ Subject of Middle-earth: The Constitution of the Subject in the Figure of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings
  • Martin Simonson: Three is Company: Novel, Fairy Tale, and Romance on the Journey through the Shire
  • Richard W. Fehrenbacher: Beowulf as Fairy-story: Enchanting the Elegiac in The Two Towers
  • James Obertino: Barbarians and Imperialism in Tacitus and The Lord of the Rings
  • Karen Wynn Fonstad: Writing 'TO' the Map
  • Douglas A. Anderson: R. W. Chambers and The Hobbit
  • Michael D. C. Drout: A Spliced Old English Quotation in "Beowulf": The Monsters and the Critics
  • James I. McNelis III: "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
  • Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
  • Marcel Bülles, Michael D.C. Drout, and Rebecca Epstein: Bibliography for 2004

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review Volume 2 - Digital Edition

Tolkien Studies Volume 2

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Richard C. West: "And She Name Her Own Name": Being True to One's Word in Tolkien's Middle-earth
  • Douglas A. Anderson: Richard C. West: A Checklist
  • Miryam Libran-Moreno: Parallel Lives: The Sons of Denethor and the Sons of Telamon

  • Judy Ann Ford, The White City: "The Lord of the Rings" as an Early Medieval Myth of the Restoration of the Roman Empire
  • Elizabeth Massa Hoiem: World Creation as Colonization: British Imperialism in "Aldarion and Erendis"
  • Margaret Sinex: "Tricksy Lights": Literary and Folkloric Elements in Tolkien's Passage of teh Dead Marshes Patchen Mortimer, Tolkien and Modernism 
  • John Wm. Houghton and Neal K. Keesee: Tolkien, King Alfred, and Boethius
  • Kristine Larsen: A Definitive Identification of Tolkien's "Borgil": An Astronomical and Literary Approach
  • Linda Greenwood: Love: "The Gift of Death"
  • Michael J. Brisbois: Tolkien's Imaginary Nature: An Analysis of the Structure of Middle-Earth
  • Douglas A. Anderson: Obituary: Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005)

  • Beth Russell: The Birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Douglas A. Anderson: J.R.R. Tolkien and W. Rhys Roberts’s “Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh
  • Sandra Ballif Straubhaar: Gilraen’s “Linnod”: Function, Genre, Prototype Dale Nelson, Little Nell and Frodo the Halfling
  • David Bratman: The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2001-2002
  • Michael D.C. Drout with Melissa Smith-MacDonald: Bibliography (in English) for 2003
  • Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
  • Marcel Bülles, Michael D.C. Drout, and Rebecca Epstein: Bibliography for 2004
  • Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
  • Marcel Bülles, Michael D.C. Drout, and Rebecca Epstein: Bibliography for 2004
  • Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
  • Marcel Bülles, Michael D.C. Drout, and Rebecca Epstein: Bibliography for 2004
  • Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
  • Marcel Bülles, Michael D.C. Drout, and Rebecca Epstein: Bibliography for 2004
  • Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
  • Marcel Bülles, Michael D.C. Drout, and Rebecca Epstein: Bibliography for 2004

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