Tolkien Studies: Volume 5

Tolkien Studies: Volume 5
Editor	Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University
Released	July, 2008
Format	Hardcover; electronic
ISBN	1933202386
ISSN	1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: Volume 5 is the fifth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

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Contents

• Articles
  • Brian Rosebury: "Revenge and Moral Judgement in Tolkien"
  • Douglas A. Anderson: "Brian Rosebury on J.R.R. Tolkien: A Checklist"
  • Carl Phelpstead: "'With chunks of poetry in between': The Lord of the Rings and Saga Poetics"
  • Corey Olsen: "The Myth of the Ent and the Entwife"
  • David D. James: "Showing Saruman as Faber: Tolkien and Peter Jackson"
  • Lynn Forest-Hill: "Boromir, Byrhtnoth, and Bayard: Finding a Language for Grief in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
  • Jason Fisher: "Three Rings for—Whom Exactly? And Why?: Justifying the Disposition of the Three Elven Rings"

• Notes and Documents
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale"
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: "The Reeve's Tale: Version Prepared for Recitation at the 'Summer Diversions' Oxford: 1939"
  • Ross Smith: "Steiner on Tolkien"
  • George Steiner: "Tolkien, Oxford's Eccentric Don"

• Book Reviews
  • Nicholas Birns: "The Children of Húrin, Narn i Chîn Húrin: The Tale of the Children of Húrin" (review)
  • John Garth: "Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets" (review)
  • Deidre A. Dawson: "The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth" (review)
  • Dyrk Ashton: "The Frodo Franchise: "The Lord of the Rings" and Modern Hollywood" (review)
  • Tom Shippey: "The History of The Hobbit" (review)
  • Mark T. Hooker: "Hither Shore: Interdisciplinary Journal of Modern Fantasy Literature, Jahrbuch der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V." (review)
  • Dimitra Fimi: "Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien" (review)
  • Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley: "Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien" (review)
  • Shaun F. D. Hughes: "Tolkien and Modernity 1, and: Tolkien and Modernity 2" (review)
  • Jared Lobdell: "Tolkien and Shakespeare" (review)
  • Michael J. Brisbois: "Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology" (review)

• "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2005", by David Bratman
• "Bibliography (in English) for 2006", by Michael D.C. Drout, Jason Rea, Rebecca Epstein, Lauren Provost

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 5 at Project Muse