Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume II
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien’s voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
•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
•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
“What else can one say? The reviews are full, numerous, by respected hands, and informative. . . .another magisterial addition to the growing corpus of Tolkienian scholarship.”
David Doughan, Mallorn
“…a welcome addition to the growing library of Tolkien criticism.”
Mark Hooker, Mythprint
“…a very important and highly readable addition to Tolkien scholarship.”
Carol A. Leibiger, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
“…the best anthology of Tolkien criticism and commentary.”
Mike Foster
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