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  Cover title = Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review publisher = West Virginia University Press history = 2004 &mdash 2007
  Discipline Literature
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  Country USA
  Frequency Annual
  Openaccess
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  ISSN 1547-3155


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


VOLUMES TO DATE



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

  • " 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



Volume 2

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

  • "And She Named 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



Volume 3

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

  • --- Karen Wynn Fonstad

  • ---Dan Timmons

  • 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

  • Volume 4

''Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review'', Volume 4, 2007, West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1933202262 {Link without Title}

  • Hostetter, Carl F. ''Tolkienian Linguistics: The First Fifty Years''

  • Anderson, Douglas A. (Douglas Allen), ''Carl F. Hostetter: A Checklist''

  • Fimi, Dimitra. ''Tolkien’s "'Celtic' type of legends": Merging Traditions''

  • Libran Moreno, Miryam. ''Greek and Latin Amatory Motifs in Éowyn's Portrayal''

  • Flieger, Verlyn, ''The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow: Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-earth''

  • Drout, Michael D. C., ''J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship and its Significance''

  • Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), ''The Name "Nodens"''

  • Croft, Janet Brennan. ''Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect''

  • Honegger, Thomas. ''The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Philology and the Literary Muse''

  • Burns, Marjorie. ''Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (In Its Pre-Shire Den)''

  • Kisor, Yvette L. ''"Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She": Some Notes on a Note in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings''

  • Larsen, Kristine. ''SAURON, Mount Doom, and Elvish Moths: The Influence of Tolkien on Modern Science''



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