Mallorn 48

Mallorn 48
Editor	Henry Gee
Cover artist	Jef Murray
Publisher	The Tolkien Society
Printer	The Printed Word, Horsham, UK
Released	Autumn 2009
Format	A4 stapled paperback, glossy
Pages	52
ISSN	0306-6674
Preceded by	Mallorn 47
Followed by	Mallorn 49

Mallorn 48 is the forty-eighth issue of the The Tolkien Society's biannual journal Mallorn, published in Autumn 2009.

Reprinted by kind permission of The Tolkien Society and the named cover artists - all rights reserved.

Contents

• Cover Art
  • Gates of Moria
    • By: Jef Murray
• Editorial
  • "Tolkien of the Many Names"
    • By: John Garth
• Reviews
  • "A year in study": Tolkien Studies: Volume 6
    • By: Henry Gee
  • "Views of a lost world": Black and White Ogre Country: The Lost Tales of Hilary Tolkien
    • By: John Garth
  • "Tales of the past": The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
    • By: Joel Franz
  • "A taste of foreign country": Paths of Exile
    • By: David Doughan
  • "Hunting Peter Jackson": The Hunt for Gollum
    • By: Chad Chrisholm
  • "What's in a name?": The Tolkien Name in History, The Suffield Name in History and The Origins of JRR Tolkien in Bloemfontein
    • By: Pat Reynolds
• Commentary
  • "The desire of a tale-teller"
    • By: Maggie Burns
  • "Frodo as the scapegoat child of Middle-earth"
    • By: Lynn Whitaker
  • "The Stone of Erech and the Black Stone of Ka'aba: meteorite or 'meteor-wrong'?"
    • By: Kristine Larsen
  • "Questing for 'Tygers': a historical archaeological landscape invesiation of J.R.R. Tolkien's real Middle-earth"
    • By: Paul H. Vigor
• Poetry
  • "Dawn of the Wolds of Rohan"
    • By: Carol Brownlow
  • "Sarehole Dreams (Tom Bombadil Alive and Well)"
    • By: Jodi Storer
  • "Cuivienen"
    • By: Carol Brownlow
• Obituary
  • "David Eddings (1931-2009)"
    • By: Becky Hitchin
• Fiction
  • "Royal blood"
    • By: Shelly Li
  • "Wisdom"
    • By: Ben Gribbin
• Well, I'm back
  • "Rivendell Reality"
    • By: John Gilbey
• Back Cover
  • By: John Gilbey
• Inside Art
  • By: Phyllis Berka, John Gilbey, Becky Hitchen, Glendon Mellow and Jef Murray

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See also

• Mallorn, the large tree after which the journal is named
• List of Mallorn issues
• Mallorn cover art gallery
• Amon Hen, the bi-monthly bulletin of The Tolkien Society

External links

• The Tolkien Society
• About Mallorn
• This issue at The Tolkien Society website