Tolkien Studies: Volume 12

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

Tolkien Studies: Volume 12 is the twelfth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

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
  • Michael D.C. Drout: "Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary together with Sellic Spell by J.R.R. Tolkien" (review)
  • Richard C. West: "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book by J.R.R. Tolkien" (review)
  • Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso: "A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien ed. by Stuart D. Lee" (review)
  • Patrick Curry: "Tolkien: The Forest and the City ed. by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes" (review)
  • David Bratman: "Tolkien by Raymond Edwards" (review)

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

External links

• Tolkien Studies 12: an announcement