Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume III
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.
•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
•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
“A welcome addition to the growing library of Tolkien criticism.”
Mark Hooker, Mythprint
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“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
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“The best anthology of Tolkien criticism and commentary.”
Mike Foster
Mike Foster
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“A very important and highly readable addition to Tolkien scholarship.”
Carol A. Leibiger, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
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