Mallorn 53

Mallorn 53
Editor	Henry Gee
Cover artist	Ted Nasmith
Publisher	The Tolkien Society
Printer	The Printed Word, Horsham, UK
Released	Spring 2012
Format	A4 stapled paperback, glossy
Pages	48
ISSN	0308-6674
Preceded by	Mallorn 52
Followed by	Mallorn 54

Mallorn 53 is the fifty-third issue of the The Tolkien Society's biannual journal Mallorn, published in Spring 2012. This was the last issue to be published biannually; the journal returned to its annual format with Mallorn 54 coming out a year later in Spring 2013.

Contents

• Cover Art
  • By: Ted Nasmith
• Guest Editorial
  • "An Elrond by any other name"
    • By: Kristine Larsen
• Letters to the Editor
  • "Tolkien's Nobel prize"
    • By: Troels Forchhammer
• Reviews
  • "On the origin of ideas": Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
    • By: Janet Brennan Croft
  • "Visions of Middle-earth": A Tolkien Tapestry
    • By: Daniel Howick
  • "Life during wartime": Tolkien and the Peril of War
    • By: Becky Hitchin
  • "The year in perspective:" Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VIII 2011
    • By: Troels Forchhammer
  • "Telling tales": Among Others
    • By: Pat Reynolds
  • "Exploring the blind spots": The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
    • By: Harley J. Sims
  • "Sought in translation": C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile
    • By: Sharron Sarthou
• Commentary
  • "What made J.R.R. Tolkien tick and why was he called 'Reuel'? The importance of Tolkien biography"
    • By: Colin Duriez
  • "From Dunne to Desmond: disembodied time travel in Tolkien, Stapledon and Lost"
    • By: Kristine Larsen
  • "Going back: time travel in Tolkien and E. Nesbit"
    • By: Virginia Luling
• Fiction
  • "Ten-thousand moons of howling"
    • By: Gareth Owens
  • "Riders of the last orc"
    • By: Lynn Forest-Hill
  • "Dark trails"
    • By: Mark Ridge
• Well, I'm Back
  • "Meriadoc and the matter of Rohan"
    • By: David Doughan
• Inside Art
  • By: Lorenzo Daniele, Jef Murray, Cor Blok, Ted Nasmith, Rick J. Ritchie, John Gilbey

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See also

• Mallorn, the large tree after which the journal is named
• List of Mallorn issues
• Mallorn cover art gallery
• Amon Hen, the bi-monthly bulletin of The Tolkien Society

External links

• The Tolkien Society
• About Mallorn
• This issue at The Tolkien Society website