Tolkien Studies: Volume 12

Tolkien Studies: Volume 12
Editor	David Bratman, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University Press
Released	December, 2015
Format	Paperback; electronic
ISSN	1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: Volume 12, published in 2015, is the twelfth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies. From this point on the journal is printed with softcover instead of hardcover, along with a more striking cover design.

This issue reprints an obituary written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1923, a memorial to his senior Henry Bradley.

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Contents

• Articles
  • Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley, "'Mind to Mind': Tolkien's Faërian Drama and the Middle English Sir Orfeo"
  • Kris Swank, "The Irish Otherworld Voyage of Roverandom"
  • Simon Cook, "The Peace of Frodo: On the Origin of an English Mythology"
  • Carrol Fry, "'Two Musics about the Throne of Ilúvatar': Gnostic and Manichaean Dualism in The Silmarillion"
  • Alban Gautier, "From Dejection in Winter to Victory in Spring: Aragorn and Alfred, Parallel Episodes?"
  • Sherrylyn Branchaw, "Boromir: Breaker of the Fellowship?"

• Notes and Documents
  • J.R.R. Tolkien, "Henry Bradley, 3 Dec. 1845-23 May 1923," an obituary for his supervisor at the Oxford English Dictionary, with commentary by Tom Shippey and Peter Gilliver

• Book Reviews
  • Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary together with Sellic Spell, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, reviewed by Michael D.C. Drout
  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, reviewed by Richard C. West
  • A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Stuart D. Lee, reviewed by Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso
  • Tolkien: The Forest and the City, edited by Helen Conrad-O'Briain and Gerard Hynes, reviewed by Patrick Curry
  • Tolkien, by Raymond Edwards, reviewed by David Bratman

• Merlin DeTardo, Jason Fisher, David Bratman, Marjorie Burns, John Wm. Houghton, and John Magoun, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2012"
• Rebecca Epstein and David Bratman, "Bibliography (in English) for 2013"

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 12 at Project Muse