Mallorn 55

Mallorn 55
Editor	Helen Armstrong
Cover artist	Jef Murray
Publisher	The Tolkien Society
Printer	The Printed Word, Horsham, UK
Released	Winter 2014
Format	A4 stapled paperback, glossy
Pages	48
ISSN	0308-6674
Preceded by	Mallorn 54
Followed by	Mallorn 56

Mallorn 55 is the fifty-fifth issue of the The Tolkien Society's annual journal Mallorn, published in Winter 2014.

Contents

• Cover Art
  • "Balrog"
    • By: Jef Murray
• Editorial
  • "And it's Goodbye from me... and Hello from him"
    • By: Helen Armstrong
• Poetry
  • Lúthien Tinúviel
    • By: Philip Dodd
  • Beowulf
    • By: Kate Perlot
• Commentary
  • "Tolkien in Bloemfontein"
    • By: Boris Gorelik
  • "Tom Bombadil and the Journey for Middle-earth"
    • By: Kerry Brooks
  • "'The House of his Spirit Crumbles': A medical consideration of Faramir's condition on his return from the retreat from Osgiliath, in The Lord of the Rings"
    • By: Jennifer Urquart
  • "Reconstructing the Politics of the Dark Age"
    • By: Tom Shippey
  • "'Seeing a Picture Before Us': Tolkien's commentary in his translation of Beowulf"
    • By: Mark Atherton
  • "Tolkien's Technique of Translation in his Prose Beowulf: Literalism and Literariness"
    • By: Britton Brooks
  • "Tolkien and Folklore: Sellic Spell and The Lay of Beowulf"
    • By: Dimitra Fimi
  • "Tolkien's Arthurian Twilight: Ancient influences in The Fall of Arthur"
    • By: Gregory J. Liebau
  • "Friendship in Tolkien's world"
    • By: Martina Juričková
  • "The Human Image and the interrelationship of Orcs, Elves and Men"
    • By: David Tneh
  • "'Helpful, deprived, insulted, vengeful': Norse Mythology and Tolkien's Dwarves"
    • By: Lilian Darvell
• Reviews
  • "Votes for Tauriel - but not the love": The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    • By: Shaun Gunner
    • By: Richard Gonsowski
    • By: Sophie Watson
• Well, I’m back
  • "On Dwarves and Dwarfs"
    • By: Thor Ewing
• Inside Art
  • By: Michael Afford, Helen Armstrong, Catherine Karina Chmiel John Cockshaw, Jenny Dolfen, Anke Eissmann, Thor Ewing, Jay Johnstone, Jef Murray

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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