Tolkien Studies: Volume 1

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Tolkien Studies: Volume 1
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EditorDouglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
PublisherWest Virginia University
ReleasedPrinted: April, 2004
Digital: December, 2004
FormatHardcover; electronic
Pages190
ISBN0937058874

Tolkien Studies: Volume 1, published in 2004, is the first volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

Carl F. Hostetter's article reprints the 1944 Middle English version of Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien, it analyses the differences and similarities between this version and the Modern English version of it, also by Tolkien. The latter was published in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo in 1975.

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Contents[edit | edit source]

  • 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"
    • J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter, "Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien"
    • 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"
  • Notes and Documents
    • Thomas 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"
  • Michael D.C. Drout, Laura Kalafarski, and Stefanie Olsen, "Bibliography (in English) for 2001-2002"

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Tolkien Studies volumes
Volume 1 · Volume 2 · Volume 3 · Volume 4 · Volume 5 · Volume 6 · Volume 7 · Volume 8 ·
Volume 9 · Volume 10 · Volume 11 · Volume 12 · Volume 13 · Volume 14 · Volume 15 · Volume 16 ·
Volume 17 · Volume 18 · Volume 19 (Supplement)