Mallorn 52

Mallorn 52
Editor	Henry Gee
Cover artist	Ted Nasmith
Publisher	The Tolkien Society
Printer	The Printed Word, Horsham, UK
Released	Autumn 2011
Format	A4 stapled paperback, glossy
Pages	52
ISSN	0308-6674
Preceded by	Mallorn 51
Followed by	Mallorn 53

Mallorn 52 is the fifty-first issue of the The Tolkien Society's biannual journal Mallorn, published in Autumn 2011.

Contents

• Cover Art
  • A Conversation with Smaug
    • By: Ted Nasmith
• Editorial
  • "Consider the context"
    • By: Nancy Martsch
• Letters
  • "An idea takes root"
    • By: Zak Cramer
• Reviews
  • "A doom of diamonds": The King of Diamonds by Simon Tolkien
    • Reviewed by Mike Foster
  • "The Welsh connection": Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity by Carl Phelpstead
    • Reviewed by Troels Forchhammer
  • "From Middle Ages to Middle-earth": The Keys of Middle-Earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien by Stuart D. Lee and Elizabeth Solopova
    • Reviewed by Kastytis Zubovas
  • "The green revolution": Ents, Elves, And Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien by Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans
    • Reviewed by Kusumita P. Pedersen
  • "The lion, the witch and the baffled producers": The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    • Reviewed by Chad Chisholm
  • "A dash of movie magic": Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
    • Reviewed by Henry Gee
  • "A trip to Iceland": Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath
    • Reviewed by Pat Reynolds
• Commentary
  • "Casting away treasurers: Tolkien's use of Pearl in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"
    • By: Leigh Smith
  • "A woman of valour: Éowyn in War and Peace"
    • By: Catherine Madsen
  • "We hatesses those tricksy numbers: Tolkien, Lewis and maths anxiety"
    • By: Kristine Larsen
  • "Inscriptions and insertions in a first edition of The Lord of the Rings"
    • By: James Blake
  • "Orcs and Tolkien's treatment of evil"
    • By: David Tneh
• Fiction
  • "Werewolf Hollow"
    • By: Mark L. Ridge
• Well, I'm back
  • "Did Tolkien support the Canaries"
    • By: Henry Gee
• Inside Art
  • By: Lorenzo Daniele, Henry Gee, John Gilbey, Jef Murray, Ted Nasmith, Rick J. Ritchie, Colin Sullivan, Sue Wookey

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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