Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
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Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference | |
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Author | Various |
Publisher | Mythopoeic Press |
Released | January 1st, 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
- Fr. 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 ofthe Northern Influences on Tolkien's Works
- Gloriana St. Clair, Volsunga Saga and Narn: Some Analogies
- Chris Seeman, Tolkien's Revision ofthe 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 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 Fanlasy 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