Tolkien Studies

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Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review
Cover of Volume 1
Cover of Volume 1
Discipline Literature
Language English
Abbreviated title
Publisher (country) West Virginia University Press (USA)
Publication history 2004 — 2006
Frequency Annual
Website
ISSN 1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review is an academic journal, ISSN 1547-3155, containing papers on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D. C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger.

Contents

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[edit] Volume 1

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 1, 2004, West Virginia University Press, ISBN 0-9370-5887-4

  • Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem -Tom Shippey
  • Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien: A checklist - Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • The Adapted Text: The Lost Poetry of Beleriand - Gergely Nagy
  • "Do the Atlantis story and abandon Eriol-Saga" - Verlyn Flieger
  • Indentifying England's Lonnrot - Anne C. Petty
  • "Sir Orfeo": A Middle English Version by J.R.R. Tolkien - Carl F. Hostetter
  • Frodo's Batman - Mark T. Hooker
  • Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects - Michael D.C. Drout
  • When Philology Becomes Ideology: The Russian Perspective of J.R.R. Tolkien -Olga Markova
  • Notes and Documents
    • A Note on Beren and Luthien's Disguise as Werewolf and Vampire-bat - Thomas Honegger
    • Possible Echoes of Blackwood and Dunsany in Tolkien's Fantasy - Dale J. Nelson
    • Bibliography for 2001-2002 - Compiled by Michael D.C. Drout, with Laura Kalaforski and Stefanie Olsen

[edit] Volume 2

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 2, 2005, West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1-9332-0203-3

  • "And She Name Her Own Name": Being True to One's Word in Tolkien's Middle-earth - Richard C. West
  • Richard C. West: A Checklist - Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
  • Parallel Lives: The Sons of Denethor and the Sons of Telamon - Miryam Libran-Moreno
  • The White City: "The Lord of the Rings" as an Early Medieval Myth of the Restoration of the Roman Empire - Judy Ann Ford
  • World Creation as Colonization: British Imperialism in "Aldarion and Erendis" - Elizabeth Massa Hoiem
  • "Tricksy Lights": Literary and Folkloric Elements in Tolkien's Passage of the Dead Marshes - Margaret Sinex
  • Tolkien and Modernism - Patchen Mortimer
  • Tolkien, King Alfred, and Boethius - John Wm. Houghton and Neal K. Keesee
  • A Definitive Identification of Tolkien's "Borgil": An Astronomical and Literary Approach - Kristine Larsen
  • Love: "The Gift of Death" - Linda Greenwood
  • Tolkien's Imaginary Nature: An Analysis of the Structure of Middle-Earth - Michael J. Brisbois
  • Obituary: Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005) - Douglas A. Anderson
  • Notes and Documents
    • The Birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien - Beth Russell
    • J.R.R. Tolkien and W. Rhys Robert's "Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh" - Douglas A. Anderson
    • Gilraen's "Linnod": Function, Genre, Prototype - Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
    • Little Nell and Frodo the Halfling - Dale Nelson
    • Book Reviews
    • Addenda and Corrigenda to the 2001-2002 "Tolkien Studies" Bibliography
    • The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2001-2002 - David Bratman
    • Bibliography (in English) for 2003 - Compiled by Michael D.C. Drout with Melissa Smith-MacDonald

[edit] Volume 3

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 3, 2006, West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1-9332-0210-6

  • In Memoriam:
  • Fitting Sense to Sound: Linguistic Aesthetics and Phonosemantics in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien - Ross Smith
  • The Text Tale of Frodo the Nine-fingered: Residual Oral Patterning in The Lord of the Rings - Maria Prozesky
  • Dream Visions in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Amy M. Amendt-Raduege
  • The "Lost" Subject of Middle-earth: The Constitution of the Subject in the Figure of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings - Gergely Nagy
  • Three is Company: Novel, Fairy Tale, and Romance on the Journey through the Shire - Martin Simonson
  • Beowulf as Fairy-story: Enchanting the Elegiac in The Two Towers - Richard W. Fehrenbacher
  • Barbarians and Imperialism in Tacitus and The Lord of the Rings - James Obertino
  • Notes and Documents
    • Karen Wynn Fonstad - Verlyn Flieger
    • Writing "TO" the Map - Karen Wynn Fonstad
    • R. W. Chambers and The Hobbit - Douglas A. Anderson
    • A Spliced Old English Quotation in "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" - Michael D. C. Drout
    • "The tree took me up from 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. McNelis
    • Book Reviews
    • The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2003 - David Bratman


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