Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume IV

by Michael D.C. Drout (Editor), Douglas A Anderson (Editor), Verlyn Flieger (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938228537
Publisher:	West Virginia University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Douglas A. Anderson is an independent scholar whose first book was The Annotated Hobbit (1988; revised enlarged 2002). He helped correct the text of The Lord of the Rings in both the American and British editions, and these versions contain his introductory “Note on the Text.” He is also the lesser co-author (with Wayne G. Hammond) of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (1993).  He has edited is a reissue of E. A. Wyke-Smith’s The Marvellous Land of Snergs (1996), a children’s book originally published in 1927 that provided the impetus of Tolkien’s children’s book The Hobbit. His anthologies include Tales Before Tolkien (2003), H. P. Lovecraft’s Favorite Weird Tales (2005), and Tales Before Narnia (2008). With Verlyn Flieger, he co-edited Tolkien On Fairy-stories (2008).

Michael D. C. Drout is the Prentice Professor and Chair of English at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction, and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin. He is best known for his studies of Tolkien's scholarly work on Beowulf and the precursors and textual evolution of the essay Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics, published as Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien (2002), which won the Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship in Inklings Studies, 2003.

Verlyn Flieger is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she specialized in Mythology and Folklore. Among her publications are A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Road to Faerie (1997), Splintered Light, Logos, and Language in Tolkien’s World (2002), and Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology (2005). With Douglas A. Anderson she edited Tolkien’s On Fairy-stories (2008).

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