Tolkien Studies: Volume 1

Tolkien Studies: Volume 1
Editor	Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University
Released	Printed: April, 2004 Digital: December, 2004
Format	Hardcover; electronic
Pages	190
ISBN	0937058874

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 text of Sir Orfeo, in Middle English, edited by J.R.R. Tolkien. It also analyses the differences and similarities between the 1944 version and the Modern English version, translated by Tolkien, published in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (1975).

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Contents

• 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"

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 1 at Project Muse (free access)
• Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien (pdf)