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Tolkien Studies 7 on the Horizon

posted on July 06, 2010 by André Gand

Tolkien Studies is an annual scholarly journal dedicated to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It is edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger.

Volume 7 of Tolkien Studies will be released in August this year. The contents are:

Essays
- Vladimir Brljakj: “The Books of Lost Tales: Tolkien as Metafictionist”
- Péter Kristóf Makai: “Faërian Cyberdrama: When Fantasy becomes Virtual Reality”
- Michael Milburn: “Coleridge's Definition of Imagination and Tolkien’s Definition(s) of Faery”
- Thomas Fornet-Ponse: “‘Strange and free’ — On Some Aspects of the Nature of Elves and Men”
- Mary R. Bowman: “Refining the Gold: Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and the Northern Theory of Courage”
- Thomas Honegger: “Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation in Sir Orfeo: The Medieval Foundations of Tolkienian Fantasy”
- Sherrylyn Branchaw: “Elladan and Elrohir: The Dioscuri in The Lord of the Rings”
- Yoko Hemmi: “Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and His Concept of Native Language: Sindarin and British-Welsh”
- Margaret Sinex: “‘Monsterized Saracens,’ Tolkien's Haradrim, and Other Medieval ‘Fantasy Products’”
- Kristine Larsen: “Myth, Milky Way, and the Mysteries of Tolkien's Morwinyon, Telumendil, and Anarríma”
Notes and Documents
- J.R.R. Tolkien, transcribed and edited by Verlyn Flieger: “‘The Story of Kullervo’ and Essays on Kalevala”
- John Garth: “J.R.R. Tolkien and the Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Fairies”

Furthermore there will be many reviews, Douglas Anderson's “Book Notes”, “The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2007” by David Bratman, and the “Bibliography (in English) for 2008” by Rebecca Epstein, Michael Drout, and David Bratman. The full table of contents is shown at Anderson's Blog.

Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger (eds.)
Tolkien Studies, Vol. 7
Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, [August] 2010.
[Hardcover]

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