Tolkien Studies: Volume 14

Tolkien Studies: Volume 14
Editor	David Bratman, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University Press
Released	2017
Format	Paperback

Tolkien Studies: Volume 14 is the fourteenth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

The article by H.L. Spencer includes previsouly unpublished lecture notes by J.R.R. Tolkien concerning Israel Gollancz and E.V. Gordon (see note 27, p. 28). The article by Paul Tankard includes previously unpuslihed quotations from letters and a note by Tolkien.

Contents

• Articles
  • H.L. Spencer, “The Mystical Philosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Sir Israel Gollancz: Monsters and Critics”
  • Christopher Gilson, “His Breath Was Taken Away: Tolkien, Barfield, and Elvish Diction”
  • Kathy Cawsey, “Could Gollum Be Singing a Sonnet? The Poetic Project of The Lord of the Rings”
  • Eleanor R. Simpson, “The Evolution of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Portrayal of Nature: Foreshadowing Anti-speciesism”
  • Leonard Neidorf, “J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur: Creation from Literary Criticism”
  • Jeffrey J. MacLeod and Anna Smol, “Visualizing the Word: Tolkien as Artist and Writer”
  • Paul Tankard “Akin to my own inspiration’: Mary Fairburn and the Art of Middle-earth”

• Notes and Documents
  • J.M. Silk, “A Note on the Sindarin Translation of the Name Daisy”
  • Giovanni Costabile, “Stolen Pears, Unripe Apples: The Misuse of Fruits as a Symbol of Original Sin in Tolkien’s The New Shadow and Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions”

• Books Reviews
  • A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins, review by Arden R. Smith
  • The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger; and The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Aleksandar Mikić with the assistance of Elizabeth Currie, review by Dimitra Fimi
  • The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 1; Quenya Verb Structure, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson and Arden R. Smith, review by Nelson Goering
  • Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works, edited by Leslie A. Donovan, review by Diana Pavlac Glyer
  • Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann, review by David Bratman

• “The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2014”, by David Bratman, Edith L. Crowe, Jason Fisher, John Wm. Houghton, John Magoun, Robin Anne Reid
• “Bibliography (In English) for 2015” by David Bratman