Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VI

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:	9781938228575
Publisher:	West Virginia University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	897 KB

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

•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