Tolkien Studies: Volume 1

Tolkien Studies: Volume 1
Editor	Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University
Released	Printed: April, 2004 Digital: December, 2004
Format	Hardcover; electronic
Pages	190
ISBN	0937058874

Tolkien Studies: Volume 1 is the first volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

Carl F. Hostetter's article "Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version by J.R.R. Tolkien" reprints the 1944 text of Sir Orfeo as edited by Tolkien, together with his editorial note (pp. 85-123).

Contents

• Articles
  • Tom Shippey: "Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem"
  • Douglas A. Anderson: "Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien, A Checklist"
  • Gergely Nagy: "The Adapted Text, The Lost Poetry of Beleriand"
  • Verlyn Flieger: ""Do the Atlantis story and abandon Eriol-Saga""
  • Anne C. Petty: "Identifying England's Lönnrot"
  • Mark T. Hooker: "Frodo's Batman"
  • Michael D.C. Drout: "Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects"
  • Olga Markova, Mark T. Hooker: "When Philology Becomes Ideology, The Russian Perspective of J.R.R. Tolkien"
  • Thomas M. Honegger: "A Note on Beren and Lúthien's Disguise as Werewolf And Vampire-Bat"
  • Dale Nelson: "Possible Echoes of Blackwood and Dunsany in Tolkien's Fantasy"

• Notes and Documents
  • J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter: "Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien"

• "Bibliography (in English) for 2001-2002", by Michael D. C. Drout, Laura Kalafarski, Stefanie Olsen

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 1 at Project Muse (free access)