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.

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