• Startseite
• English Version
• Liste der Neuerscheinungen

Werkübersicht

• Tolkiens Werke
• Tolkiens Werke (Übers.)
• Sekundärwerke
• Sonstige Werke
• Hörbücher und Hörspiele

Rubriken

• Artikel
• Interviews
• Verlosung
• Werkbesprechungen

Tolkien-Buecher.de ...

•  als E-Mail-Abonnement
•  Newsfeed
•  Chat

Selection of Tolkien-related edited volumes

Deutsch

compiled by André Gand
last modified on May 06, 2010

This overview shows a selection of edited volumes. Regularly published ones, such as Tolkien Studies and Hither Shore, are not included here. Short information on the articles and where to find them are given. This is a work in progress (so checking in regularly for updates is worth your while).

• Steimel/Schneidewind (eds.), Music in Middle-earth (2010)
• J.S. Ryan, Tolkien's View. Windows into his World (2009)
• Caldecott/Honegger (eds.), Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Sources of Inspiration (2008)
• Turner (ed.), The Silmarillion. Thirty Years On (2007)
• Segura/Honegger (eds.), Myth and Magic. Art according to the Inklings (2007)
• Tom Shippey, Roots and Branches. Selected Papers on Tolkien (2007)
• Hiley/Weinreich (eds.), Tolkien's Shorter Works. Essays of the Jena Conference 2007 (2008)
• Weinreich/Honegger (eds.), Tolkien & Modernity 1 (2006)
• Honegger/Weinreich (eds.), Tolkien & Modernity 2 (2006)
• Chance/Siewers (eds.), Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages (2005)
• Honegger (ed.), Reconsidering Tolkien (2005)
• Chance (ed.), Tolkien and the Invention of Myth (2004)
• Honegger (ed.), Translating Tolkien. Text and Film (2004)
• Chance (ed.), Tolkien the Medievalist (2003)
• Flieger/Hostetter (eds.), Tolkien's Legendarium. Essays on The History of Middle-earth (2000)

Music in Middle-earth

• Creation and Music
  • Kristine Larsen: “‘Behold Your Music!’. The Themes of Ilúvatar, The Song of Aslan, and the Real Music of the Spheres” (11-27)
  • Reuven Naveh: “Tonality, Atonality and the Ainulindalë” (29-51)
  • Jonathan McIntosh: “Ainulindalë: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of the Music” (53-72)
• Music in Tolkien's World
  • Steven Linden: “A Speculative History of the Music of Arda” (75-90)
  • Heidi Steimel: “‘Bring Out the Instruments!’": Instrumental Music in Arda” (91-105)
  • Norbert Maier: “The Harp in Middle-earth” (107-124)
• Influences of Our World on Tolkien's Music
  • Gregory Martin: “Music, Myth, and Literary Depth in the ‘Land ohne Musik’” (127-148)
  • Bradford Lee Eden: “Strains of Elvish Song and Voices: Victorian Medievalism, Music, and Tolkien” (149-165)
  • Julian Eilmann: “‘Sleeps a Song in Things Abounding’: J.R.R. Tolkien and the German Romantic Tradition” (167-184)
  • Murray Smith: “‘They Began to Hum Softly’: Some Soldiers' Songs of World Wars I and II and of Middle-earth Compared and Contrasted” (185-212)
• Interpretations of Tolkien's Music in Our World
  • Michael Cunningham: “An Impenetrable Darkness: An Examination of the Influence of J.R.R. Tolkien on Black Metal Music” (215-240)
  • Paul Smith: “Microphones in Middle-earth: Music in the BBC Radio Play” (241-254)
  • Mira Sommer: “Elven Music in Our Times” (255-282)
  • Fabian Geier: “Making Texts Audible: A Workshop Report on Setting Tolkien to Music” (283-300)
• Appendix
  • Friedhelm Schneidewind: “Embodying Voices” (303-308)

Tolkien's View. Windows into his World

This book contains 20 essays by J.S. Ryan which have been published elsewhere in slightly other form.

• Part A. Early Biographic Pieces and Emerging Tastes
  • “Those Birmingham Quietists: J.R.R. Tolkien and J.H. Shorthouse (1834-1903)” (3-15)
  • “The Oxford Undergraduate Studies in Early English and Related Languages of J.R.R. Tolkien (1913-1915)” (17-26)
  • “An Important Influence: His Professor’s Wife, Mrs Elizabeth Mary (Lea) Wright” (27-32)
  • “Trolls and Other Themes – William Craigie’s Significant Folkloric Influence on the Style of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit” (33-46)
  • “Homo Ludens – Amusement, Play and Seeking in Tolkien's earliest Romantic Thought” (47-54)
  • “Edith, St. Edith of Wilton and the other English Western Saints” (55-58)
• Part B. The Young Professor and his Early Publishing
  • “Tolkien and George Gordon: or, A Close Colleague and His notion of 'Myth-maker' and of Historiographic Jeux d'Esprit” (61-70)
  • “J.R.R. Tolkien: Lexicography and other Early Linguistic Preferences” (71-87)
  • “The Work and Preferences of the Professor of Old Norse at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1945” (89-96)
  • “The Poem ‘Mythopoeia’ as an Early Statement of Tolkien's Artistic and Religious Position” (97-101)
  • “Tolkien's Concept of Philology as Mythology” (103-120)
  • “By ‘Significant’ Compounding ‘We Pass Insensibly into the World of the Epic’” (121-132)
  • “Barrow-wights, Hog-boys and the evocation of The Battle of the Goths and Huns and of St. Guthlac” (133-140)
  • “Dynamic Metahistory and the Model of Christopher Dawson” (141-151)
  • “Folktale, Fairy Tale, and the Creation of a Story” (153-177)
  • “The Wild Hunt, Sir Orfeo and J.R.R. Tolkien” (179-187)
  • “Mid-Century Perceptions of the Ancient Celtic Peoples of ‘England’” (189-198)
  • “Germanic Mythology Applied – the Extension of the Literary Folk Memory” (199-213)
  • “Perilous Roads to the East, from Weathertop and through the Borgo Pass” (215-221)
  • “Before Puck – the Púkel-men and the puca” (223-233)
• • Appendix. “Othin in England – Evidence from the Poetry for a Cult of Woden in Anglo-Saxon England” (237-258)

Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Sources of Inspiration

• Part One - Biographical
  • John Garth: “Tolkien, Exeter College and the Great War” (13-56)
  • Peter Gilliver, Edmund Weiner, Jeremy Marshall: “The Word as Leaf: Perspectives on Tolkien as Lexicographer and Philologist” (57-83)
  • Verlyn Flieger: “Gilson, Smith, and Baggins” (85-95)
• Part Two - Mythos and Modernity
  • Patrick Curry: “Enchantment in Tolkien and Middle-earth” (99-112)
  • Marek Oziewicz: “From Vico to Tolkien: The Affirmation of Myth Against the Tyranny of Reason” (113-136)
  • Peter M. Candler, Jr.: “Frodo or Zarathustra: Beyond Nihilism in Tolkien and Nietzsche” (137-168)
• Part Three - Mythos and Logos
  • Leon Pereira OP: “Morals Makyth Man – and Hobbit” (171-185)
  • Alison Milbank: “Tolkien, Chesterton, and Thomism” (187-198)
  • Guglielmo Spirito OFM Conv.: “The Influence of Holiness: The Healing Power of Tolkien's Narrative” (199-210)
  • Stratford Caldecott: “Tolkien's Project” (211-232)

The Silmarillion. Thirty Years On

• Rhona Beare: “A Mythology for England” (1-31)
• Michael D.C. Drout: “Reflections on Thirty Years of Reading The Silmarillion” (33-57)
• Anna Slack: “Moving Mandos. The Dynamics of Subcreation in ‘Of Beren and Lúthien’” (59-79)
• Michaël Devaux: “The Origins of the Ainulindalë. The Present State of Research” (81-110)
• Jason Fisher: “From Mythopoeia to Mythography. Tolkien, Lönnrot, and Jerome” (111-138)
• Nils Ivar Agøy: “Viewpoints, Audiences, and Lost Texts in The Silmarillion” (139-163)

Myth and Magic. Art according to the Inklings

• Martin Simonson: “Recovering the ‘Utterly Alien Land’: Tolkien and Transcendentalism” (1-20)
• Tom Shippey: “New Learning and New Ignorance: Magia, Goeteia, and the Inklings” (21-46)
• Dieter Bachmann: “Words for Magic: goetia, gûl and lúth” (47-55)
• Verlyn Flieger: ”When is a Fairy Story a Faërie Story? Smith of Wootton Major” (57-70)
• Colin Duriez: “Myth, Fact and Incarnation” (71-98)
• Patrick Curry: “Iron Crown, Iron Cage: Tolkien and Weber on Modernity and Enchantment” (99-108)
• Thomas Honegger: “A Mythology for England? Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth” (109-130)
• Devin Brown: “Lewis's View of Myth as a Conveyer of Deepest Truth” (131-142)
• Miryam Librán-Moreno: “‘A Kind of Orpheus-Legend in Reverse’: Two Classical Myths in the Story of Beren and Lúthien” (143-185)
• Eugenio M. Olivares-Merino: “A Monster that Matters: Tolkien’s Grendel Revisited” (187-240)
• Margarita Carretero-González: “A Tale as Old as Time, Freshly Told Anew: Love and Sacrifice in Tolkien, Lewis and Rowling ” (241-265)
• Fernando J. Soto und Marta García de la Puerta: “The Hidden Meanings of the Name ‘Ransom’: Strange Philology and ‘Contradiction’ in C.S. Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy” (267-284)
• John Garth: “‘As Under a Green Sea’: Visions of War in the Dead Marshes” (285-313)
• Eduardo Segura: “Leaf by Niggle and the Aesthetics of Gift: Towards a Definition of J.R.R. Tolkien's Notion of Art” (315-337)

Roots and Branches. Selected Papers on Tolkien

This book contains essays by Tom Shippey which have been published elsewhere before.

• The Roots: Tolkien and his Predecessors
  • “Tolkien and the Beowulf-Poet” (1-18)
  • “Tolkien and the Appeal of the Pagan: Edda and Kalevala” (19-38)
  • “Tolkien and West Midlands: The Roots of Romance” (39-60)
  • “Tolkien and Gawain-Poet” (61-78)
  • “Grimm, Grundtvig, Tolkien: Nationalism and the Invention of Mythologies” (79-96)
  • “The Problem of the Rings: Tolkien and Wagner” (97-114)
  • “Goths and Huns: The Rediscovery of Northern Cultures in the Nineteenth Century” (115-137)
• Heartwood: Tolkien and Scholarship
  • “Fighting the Long Defeat: Philology in Tolkien's Life and Fiction” (139-156)
  • “History in Words: Tolkien's Ruling Passion” (157-174)
  • “A Look at Exodus and Finn and Hengest” (175-186)
  • “Tolkien and Iceland: The Philology of Envy” (187-202)
  • “Tolkien's Academic Reputation Now” (203-213)
• The Trunk: The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
  • “Light-Elves. Dark-Elves and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem” (215-234)
  • “Indexing and Poetry in The Lord of the Rings” (235-242)
  • “Orcs. Wraiths. Wights: Tolkien's Imagine of Evil” (243-266)
  • “Heroes and Heroism: Tolkien's Problems. Tolkien's Solutions” (267-284)
  • “Noblesse Oblige: Images of Class in Tolkien” (285-302)
  • “‘A Fund of Wise Sayings’: Porverbiality in Tolkien” (303-320)
• Twigs and Branches: Minor Works by Tolkien
  • “Tolkien and ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth’” (323-340)
  • “The Version of ‘The Hoard’” (341-350)
  • “Allegory versus Bounce: (Half of) an Exchange on Smith of Wootton Major” (351-362)
  • “Blunt Belligerence Tolkien's Mr Bliss” (363-364)
  • “Another Road to Middle-earth: Jackson's Movie Trilogy” (365-385)

Tolkien's Shorter Works. Essays of the Jena Conference 2007

Some of the contributions have also been released in Hither Shore 4.

• Allan Turner: “‘Tom Bombadil’: Poetry and Accretion” (1-16)
• Guglielmo Spirito OFM Conv.: “Speaking With Animals: A Desire that Lies Near the Heart of Faërie’ (17-35)
• Marek Oziewicz: “Setting Things Right in Farmer Giles of Ham and the Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Conception of Justice” (37-57)
• Vincent Ferré: “The Rout of the King: Tolkien's Readings on Arthurian Kingship – Farmer Giles of Ham and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth” (59-76)
• Friedhelm Schneidewind: “Farmer Giles of Ham: the Prototype of a Humorous Dragon Story” (77-100)
• Patrick Brückner: “‘... Until the Dragon Comes’: Tolkien's Dragon-Motif as Poetological Concept” (101-133)
• Thomas Fornet-Ponse: “Theology and Fairy-Stories: A Theological Reading of Tolkien's Shorter Works?” (135-164)
• Betrand Alliot: “The ‘Meaning’ of Leaf by Niggle” (165-190)
• Heidi Steimel: “The Autobiographical Tolkien” (191-208)
• Fabian Geier: “Leaf by Tolkien? Allegory and Biography in Tolkien’s Literary Theory and Practice” (165-232)
• Martin Simonson: “Redefining the Romantic Hero: a Reading of Smith of Wootton Major in the Light of Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg” (233-250)
• Maria Raffaella Benvenuto: “Smith of Wootton Major, ‘The Sea-Bell’ and Lothlórien: Tolkien and the Perils of Faërie” (251-262)
• Anna E. Slack: “A Star Above the Mast: Tolkien, Faërie and the Great Escape” (263-278)
• Margaret Hiley: “Journeys in the Dark ” (279-292)
• Martin Sternberg: “Smith of Wootton Major Considered as a Religious Text” (279-323)
• Frank Weinreich: “Metaphysics of Myth: The Platonic Ontology of ‘Mythopoeia’” (324-346)

Tolkien & Modernity 1

Tolkien & Modernity comes in two volumes. See below for information on volume 2.

• Anna Vaninskaya: “Tolkien: A Man of his Time?” (1-30)
• Maria Raffaella Benvenuto: “Against Stereotype: Eowyn and Luthien as 20th-Century Women” (31-54)
• Laura Michel: “Politically Incorrect: Tolkien, Women, and Feminism” (55-76)
• Bertrand Alliot: “J.R.R. Tolkien: A Simplicity Between the ‘Truly Earthy’ and the ‘Absolute Modern’” (77-110)
• Jessica Burke und Anthony Burdge: “The Maker's Will ... Fulfilled?” (111-133)
• Frank Weinreich: “Brief Considerations on Determinism in Reality and Fiction” (135-144)
• Jason Fisher: “‘Man does as he is when he may do as he wishes’. The Perennial Modernity of Free Will” (145-175)
• Thomas Fornet-Ponse: “Freedom and Providence as Anti-Modern Elements” (177-206)
• Alexander van de Bergh: “Democracy in Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings from a Socio-Political Perspective” (207-236)

Tolkien & Modernity 2

Tolkien & Modernity comes in two volumes. See above for information on volume 1

• Patrick Brückner: “Tolkien on Love. Concepts of ‘Love’ in The Silmarillion and in The Lord of the Rings” (1-52)
• Margaret Hiley: “The Lord of the Rings and ‘Late Style’: Tolkien, Adorno and Said (53-73)
• Martin Simonson: “An Introduction to the Dynamics of the Intertraditional Dialogue in The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Heroic Evolution” (75-113)
• Anna Slack: “Slow-Kindled Courage. A Study of Heroes in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien” (115-141)
• Judith Klinger: “Hidden Paths of Time: March 13th and the Riddles of Shelob's Lair” (143-209)
• Thomas Honegger: “The Passing of the Elves and the Arrival of Modernity: Tolkien's ‘Mythical Method’” (211-232)
• Heidi Krüger: “The Shaping of ‘Reality’ in Tolkien's Works. An Aspect of Tolkien and Modernity” (233-272)

Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages

[Read Thomas Honegger's critical review of this book.]

• Verlyn Flieger: “A Postmodern Medievalist” (17-28)
• Gergely Nagy: “The Medievalist's Fiction. Textuality and Historicity as Aspects of Tolkien's Medievalist Cultural Theory in a Postmodernist Context” (29-41)
• John R. Holmes: “Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the Gnomic Tense. Is Timelessness Medieval or Victorian?” (43-58)
• John Hunter: “The Reanimation of Antiquity and the Resistance to History: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien” (61-75)
• Andrew Lynch: “Archaism, Nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings” (77-92)
• Chester N. Scoville: “Pastoralia and Perfectability in William Morris and J.R.R. Tolkien” (93-103)
• Deidre Dawson: “English, Welsh and Elvish. Language, Loss and Cultural Recovery in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings” (105-120)
• Rebekah Long: “Fantastic Medievalism and the Great War in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and David Jones's In Parenthesis” (121-138)
• Alfred K. Siewers: “Tolkien's Cosmic-Christian Ecology. The Medieval Underpinnings” (139-153)
• Brian McFadden: “Fear of Difference, Fear of Death. The Sigelwara, Tolkien's Swertings, and Racial Difference” (155-169)
• Jane Chance: “Tolkien and the Other. Race and Gender in Middle-earth” (171-186)
• Ted Nasmith: “Similar but not Similar. Appropriate Anachronism in my Paintings of Middle-earth” (189-204)
• Michael N. Stanton: “Tolkien in New Zealand. Man, Myth, and Movie” (205-211)

Reconsidering Tolkien

• Marion Gymnich: “Reconsidering the Linguistics of Middle-earth. Invented Languages and Other Linguistic Features in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings” (7-30)
• Eduardo Segura und Guillermo Peris: “Tolkien as Philo-Logist” (31-43)
• Thomas Honegger: “Tolkien Through the Eyes of a Mediaevalist” (45-66)
• Paul E. Kerry: Thoughts on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and History (67-85)
• Natasa Tucev: “The Knife, the Sting and the Tooth. Manifestations of Shadow in The Lord of the Rings” (87-105)
• Jean-Christophe Dufau: “Mythic Space in Tolkien's Work (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion)” (107-128)
• Dirk Vanderbeke: “Language, Lore and Learning in The Lord of the Rings” (129-151)
• Martin Simonson: “The Lord of the Rings in the Wake of the Great War. War, Poetry, Modernism, and Ironic Myth” (153-170)
• Connie Veugen: “‘A Man, lean, dark, tall’: Aragorn Seen Through Different Media” (171-209)

Tolkien and the Invention of Myth

• Part I. Backgrounds. Folklore, Religion, Magic, and Language
  • Michaela Baltasar: “J.R.R. Tolkien. A Rediscovery of Myth” (19-34)
  • Catherine Madsen: “‘Light from an invisible lamp’: Natural Religion in The Lord of the Rings” (35-47)
  • Mary E. Zimmer: “Creating and re-creating worlds with words: the religion and the magic of language in the Lord of the Rings” (49-60)
  • David Lyle Jeffrey: “Tolkien as Philologist” (61-
• Part II. Tolkien and Ancient Greek and Classical and Medieval Latin
  • Gergely Nagy: “Saving the Myths. The Re-creation of Mythology in Plato and Tolkien” (81-100)
  • Sandra Ballif Straubhaar: “Myth, Late Roman History, and Multiculturalism in Tolkien's Middle-earth” (101-117)
  • Jen Stevens: “From Catastrophe to Eucatastrophe. J.R.R. Tolkien's Transformation of Ovid's Mythic Pyramus and Thisbe into Beren and Lúthien” (119-132)
  • Kathleen E. Dubs: “Providence, Fate, and Chance. Boethian Philosophy in The Lord of the Rings” (133-144)
• Part III. Tolkien and Old Norse
  • Tom Shippey: “Tolkien and the Appeal of the Pagan: Edda and Kalevala” (145-161)
  • Marjorie J. Burns: “Norse and Christian Gods: the Integrative Theology of J.R.R. Tolkien” (163-178)
  • Andy Dimond: “The Twilight of the Elves. Ragnarok and the End of the Third Age” (179-189)
  • Andrew Lazo: “Gathered Round Northern Fires. The Imaginative Impact of the Kolbitar” (191-226)
• Part IV. Tolkien and Old English
  • Michael D.C. Drout: “A Mythology for Anglo-Saxon England” (229-247)
  • John R. Holmes: “Oaths and Oath Breaking. Analogues of Old English Comitatus in Tolkien's Myth” (249-261)
  • Alexandra Bolintineanu: “‘On the borders of old stories’: Enacting the Past in Beowulf and The Lord of the Rings” (263-273)
• Part V. Tolkien and Finnsih
  • Verlyn Flieger: “A Mythology for Finland. Tolkien and Lönnrot as Mythmakers” (277-283)
  • Richard C. West: “Setting the Rocket Off in Story: The Kalevala as the Germ of Tolkien's Legendarium” (285-294)
  • David Elton Gay: “J.R.R. Tolkien and the Kalevala: Some Thoughts on the Finnish Origins of Tom Bombadil and Treebeard” (295-304)

Translating Tolkien. Text and Film

• Thomas Honegger: “The Westron Turned into Modern English. The Translator and Tolkien's Web of Languages” (1-20)
• Rainer Nagel; “‘The New One Wants to Assimilate the Alien’". Different Interpretations of a Source Text as a Reason for Controversy: The ‘Old’ and the ‘New’ German Translation of The Lord of the Rings” (21-52)
• Danny Orbach (with contributions by Yuval Kfir and Yuval Welis): “The Israeli Translation Controversy - What About and Where To?” (53-66)
• Richard Sturch: “Estne Tolkien Latine Reddendus? A Light-Hearted Look at Some of the Challenges” (67-82)
• Mark T Hooker: “Dutch Samizdat: The Mensink - van Warmelo Translation of The Lord of the Rings” (83-92)
• Rainer Nagel: “The Treatment of Proper Names in the German Edition(s) of The Lord of the Rings as an Example of Norms in Translation Practice” (93-113)
• Anders Stenström: “Tolkien in Swedish Translation: from Hompen to Ringarnas herre” (115-124)
• Vincent Ferré: “Tolkien, Our Judge of Peter Jackson” (125-134)
• Anthony S. Burdge und Jessica Burke: “Humiliated Heroes: Peter Jackson's Interpretation of The Lord of the Rings” (135-164)
• Øystein Høgset: “The Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. A Critical Comment” (165-180)
• James Dunning: “The Professor and the Director and Good vs. Evil in Middle-earth” (181-212)
• Alexandra Velten: “The Soundtrack Lyrics of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings - A Legitimate ‘Translation’ of Tolkien?” (213-243)

Tolkien the Medievalist

• Part I. J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts
  • Douglas A. Anderson: “‘An industrious little devil’: E.V. Gordon as Friend and Collaborator with Tolkien” (15-25)
  • Verlyn Flieger: “‘There would always be a fairy-tale’: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy” (26-35)
  • Andrew Lazo: “A Kind of Mid-wife: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis - Sharing Influence” (36-49)
  • Mary Falaci: “‘I wish to speak’: Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay” (50-62)
  • Christine Chism: “Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation. Myth and History in World War II” (63-92)
• Part II. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts
  • Verlyn Flieger: “Tolkien's Wild Men. From Medieval to Modern” (95-105)
  • Leslie A. Donovan: “The Valkyrie Reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen” (106-132)
  • Miranda Wilcox: “Exilic Imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings” (133-154)
  • Margaret A. Sinex: “‘Oathbreakers, why have ye come?’: Tolkien's ‘Passing of the Grey Company’ and the Twelfth-Century Exercitus Mortuorum” (155-168)
• Part III. J.R.R. Tolkien: The texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography
  • John William Houghton: “Augustine in the Cottage of Lost Play: the Ainulindalë as Asterisk Cosmogony” (171-182)
  • Bradford Lee Eden: “The ‘music of the spheres’. Rrelationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and Medieval Cosmological and Religious Theory” (183-193)
  • Jonathan Evans: “The Anthropology of Arda. Creation, Theology, and the Race of Men” (194-224)
  • Michael W. Maher: “‘A land without stain’: Medieval Images of Mary and Their Use in the Characterization of Galadriel” (225-236)
• Part IV. J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology: medievalized retextualization and theory
  • Gergely Nagy: “The Great Chain of Reading: (Inter-)Textual Relations and the Technique of Mythopoesis in the Túrin story” (239-258)
  • Richard C. West: “Real-World Myth in a Secondary World. Mythological Aspects in the Story of Beren and Lúthien” (259-267)

Tolkien's Legendarium. Essays on The History of Middle-earth

• Part I. The History
  • Rayner Unwin: “ Early Days of Elder Days” (3-6)
  • Christina Scull: “The Development of Tolkien's Legendarium. Some Threads in the History of Middle-earth” (7-18)
  • Wayne G. Hammond: “‘A Continuing and Evolving Creation’. Distractions in the Later History of Middle-earth‘ (19-29)
  • Charles Noad: “On the Construction of The Silmarillion” (31-68)
  • David Bratman: “The Literary Value of The History of Middle-earth” (69-91)
• Part II. The Languages
  • Christopher Gilson: “Gnomish Is Sindarin. The Conceptual Evolution of an Elvish Language” (95-104)
  • Arden R. Smith: “Certhas, Skirditaila, Futhark. A Feigned History of Runic Origins” (105-111)
  • Patrick Wynne und Carl F. Hostetter: “Three Elvish Verse Modes: Ann-thennath, Minlamad thent / estent, and Linnod” (113-139)
• Part III. The Cauldron and the Cook
  • Joe R. Christopher: “Tolkien's Lyric Poetry” (143-160)
  • Paul Edmund Thomas: “Some of Tolkien's Narrators” (161-181)
  • Verlyn Flieger: “The Footsteps of Ælfwine” (183-198)
  • John Rateliff: “The Lost Road, The Dark Tower, and The Notion Club Papers. Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad” (199-218)
  • Marjorie Burns: “Gandalf and Odin” (219-231)
  • Richard C. West: “Túrin's Ofermod: An Old English Theme in the Development of the Story of Túrin” (233-245)
• Appendix
  • Douglas A. Anderson: “Christopher Tolkien. A Bibliography” (247-254)

 

Latest News

• Reviews in Tolkien Studies, Vol. 7
• Tolkien Studies 7 on the Horizon
• New Audiobook: Tales from the Perilous Realm
• Mythlore 109/110 now available
• Update of the Table of Contents for Hither Shore

Facebook

Share: | 2004-2010 | http://www.tolkien-buecher.de | Impressum
Daten von Twitter und Facebook werden zeitverzögert angezeigt.