Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference

Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
Editor	Patricia Reynolds, Glen H. GoodKnight
Publisher	Mythopoeic Press & The Tolkien Society
Released	1 January 1995
Format	Paperback
Pages	458
ISBN	1887726047

Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference is a book which contains the majority of the material presented at the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference.

Contents

Section 1: Recollection and Remembrance

• Vera Chapman: "Reminiscences: Oxford in 1920, Meeting Tolkien and Becoming an Author at 77"
• Glen H. Goodknight: "Tolkien Centenary Banquet Address"
• Robert Murray: "Sermon at Thanksgiving Service, Keble College Chapel, 23rd August 1992"
• George Sayer: "Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien"
• Rayner Unwin: "Publishing Tolkien"

Section 2: Sources and Influences

• Nils Ivar Agøy: "Quid Hinieldus cum Christo? - New Perspectives on Tolkien's Theological Dilemma and his Sub-Creation Theory"
• Verlyn Flieger: "Tolkien's Experiment with Time: The Lost Road, The Notion Club Papers and J.W.Dunne"
• Deirdre Greene: "Higher Argument: Tolkien and the tradition of Vision, Epic and Prophecy"
• Virginia Luling: "An Anthropologist in Middle-earth"
• Charles E. Noad: "Frodo and his Spectre: Blakean Resonances in Tolkien"
• Gloriana St. Clair: "An Overview of the Northern Influences on Tolkien's Works"
• Gloriana St. Clair: "Volsunga Saga and Narn: Some Analogies"
• Chris Seeman: "Tolkien's Revision of the Romantic Tradition"
• Tom Shippey: "Tolkien as a Post-War Writer"
• Norman Talbot: "Where do Elves go to? Tolkien and a Fantasy Tradition"

Section 3: The Lord ofthe Rings

• Marjorie Burns: "Eating, Devouring, Sacrifice and Ultimate Just Desserts"
• Jane Chance: "Power and Knowledge in Tolkien: The Problem of Difference in 'The Birthday Party'"
• Joe R. Christopher: "The Moral Epiphanies in The Lord of the Rings"
• Patrick Curry: "'Less Noise and More Green': Tolkien's Ideology for England"
• Gwenyth Hood: "The Earthly Paradise in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
• Gloriana St. Clair: "Tolkien as Reviser: A Case Study"
• Christina Scull: "Open Minds, Closed Minds in The Lord of the Rings"

Section 4: The Silmarillion

• Alex Lewis: "Historical Bias in the Making of The Silmarillion"
• Eric Schweicher: "Aspects of the Fall in The Silmarillion"

Section 5: Linguistics and Lexicography

• Peter M. Gilliver: "At the Wordface: J.R.R. Tolkien's Work on the Oxford English Dictionary"
• Christopher Gilson and Patrick H. Wynne: "The Growth of Grammar in the Elven Tongues"
• Deirdre Greene: "Tolkien's Dictionary Poetics: The Influence of the OED's Defining Style on Tolkien's Fiction"
• Natalia Grigorieva: "Problems of Translating into Russian"
• Bruce Mitchell: "J.R.R. Tolkien and Old English Studies: An Appreciation"
• Tom Shippey: "Tolkien and the Gawain-poet"

Section 6: Response and Reaction

• Vladimir Grushetskiy: "How Russians See Tolkien"
• Wayne G. Hammond: "The Critical Response to Tolkien's Fiction"
• Jessica Yates: "Tolkien the Anti-totalitarian"

Section 7: Tolkien Studies

• Helen Armstrong: "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Fantasy and Reality"
• Christine Barkley: "The Realm of Faërie"
• Christine Barkley: "Point of View in Tolkien"
• Joe R. Christopher: "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Clerihew"
• Edith L. Crowe: "Power in Arda: Sources, Uses and Misuses"
• Chris Hopkins: "Tolkien and Englishness"
• Carl F. Hostetter and Arden R. Smith: "A Mythology for England"
• Nancy Martsch: "A Tolkien Chronology"
• Tadeusz Andrzej Olszanski: "Evil and the Evil One in Tolkien's Theology"
• René van Rossenberg: "Tolkien's Exceptional Visit to Holland: A Reconstruction"
• Anders Stenström: "A Mythology? For England?"
• Dwayne Thorpe: "Tolkien's Elvish Craft"

Section 8: Middle-earth Studies

• Jenny Coombs and Marc Read: "A Physics of Middle-earth"
• David A. Funk: "Explorations into the Psyche of Dwarves"
• William Antony Swithin Sarjeant: "The Geology of Middle-earth"
• Lester E. Simons: "Writing and Allied Technologies in Middle-earth"

Section 9: The Inklings

• Charles A. Coulombe: "Hermetic Imngination: The Effect of The Golden Dawn on Fantasy Literature"
• David Doughan: "Tolkien, Sayers, Sex and Gender"
• Colin Duriez: "Tolkien and the Other Inklings"
• Lisa Hopkins: "Female Authority Figures in the Works of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams"
• Diana Lynne Pavlac: "More than a Bandersnatch: Tolkien as a Collaborative Writer"
• Stephen Yandell: "'A Pattern Which Our Nature Cries Out For': The Medieval Tradition of the Ordered Four in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien"

Section 10: Flights of Fancy

• John Ellison: "Baggins Remembered"
• Hubert Sawa: "Short History of the Territorial Development of the Dwarves' Kingdoms in the Second and Third Ages Of Middle-earth"
• Angela Surtees and Steve Gardner: "The Mechanics of Dragons... An Introduction to The Study of their 'Ologies"

Section II: Other Writers

• Madawc Williams: "Tales of Wonder - Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Age of Jane Austen"
• J.R. Wytenbroek: "Natural Mysticism in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows"
• J.R. Wytenbroek: "Cetacean Consciousness in Katz's Whalesinger and L'Engle's A Ring of Endless Light"

See also

• J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference

External links

• Official website