Tolkien Studies: Volume 6

Tolkien Studies: Volume 6
Editor	Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University
Released	June, 2009
Format	Hardcover; electronic
ISSN	1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: Volume 6, published in 2009, is the sixth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

This volume published for the first time J.R.R. Tolkien's essay "Fate and Free Will" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), it was reprinted in The Nature of Middle-earth in 2021.
Stuart D. Lee's article "J.R.R. Tolkien and The Wanderer: From Edition to Application" includes formerly unpublished extracts from Tolkien's teaching notes on The Wanderer, held at the Bodleian Library.

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Contents

• Articles
  • John D. Rateliff, "'A Kind of Elvish Craft': Tolkien as Literary Craftsman"
  • Douglas A. Anderson, "John D. Rateliff: A Checklist"
  • Ármann Jakobsson, "Talk to the Dragon: Tolkien as Translator"
  • Jill Fitzgerald, "A 'Clerkes Compleinte': Tolkien and the Division of Lit. and Lang."
  • Stefan Ekman, "Echoes of Pearl in Arda's Landscape"
  • Judy Ann Ford, Robin Anne Reid, "Councils and Kings: Aragorn's Journey Towards Kingship in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings"
  • Cynthia M. Cohen, "The Unique Representation of Trees in The Lord of the Rings"
  • Josh Long, "Clinamen, Tessera, and the Anxiety of Influence: Swerving from and Completing George MacDonald"
  • Verlyn Flieger, "The Music and the Task: Fate and Free Will in Middle-earth"

• Notes and Documents
  • J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter, "Fate and Free Will"
  • Stuart D. Lee, "J.R.R. Tolkien and The Wanderer: From Edition to Application"
  • Christopher Gilson, "Essence of Elvish: The Basic Vocabulary of Quenya"

• Book Reviews
  • Tolkien On Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, reviewed by Colin Manlove
  • Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in "The Lord of the Rings" (Parma Eldalamberon 17), by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson, reviewed by John Garth
  • Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published "Silmarillion", by Douglas Charles Kane, reviewed by Nicholas Birns
  • Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real, by Alison Milbank, reviewed by Mike Foster
  • The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition, by Martin Simonson, reviewed by Jason Fisher
  • The Mirror Crack'd: Fear and Horror in J.R.R. Tolkien's Major Works, edited by Lynn Forest-Hill, reviewed by John William Houghton
  • Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings, edited by Eduardo Segura and Thomas Honegger, reviewed by Corey Olsen
  • The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On, edited by Allan Turner, reviewed by Anne C. Petty
  • Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, by Dimitra Fimi, reviewed by Thomas Honegger
  • Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings": Sources of Inspiration, edited by Stratford Caldecott and Thomas Honegger, reviewed by Gerald Seaman
  • Tolkien's Oxford, by Robert S. Blackham, reviewed by David Doughan
  • Tolkien's Shorter Works: Proceedings of the 4th Seminar of the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft & Walking Tree Publishers Decennial Conference, edited by Margaret Hiley and Frank Weinreich, reviewed by John D. Rateliff
  • Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy, edited by Jonathan B. Himes, Joe R. Christopher, and Salwa Khoddam, reviewed by Richard C. West
  • Book Notes, by Douglas A. Anderson

• David Bratman, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2006"
• Jason Rea, Kathryn Paar, and Michael D.C. Drout, "Bibliography (in English) for 2007"

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 6 at Project Muse