Tolkien Studies: Volume 10

Tolkien Studies: Volume 10
Editor	David Bratman, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University Press
Released	July, 2013
Format	Hardcover; electronic
ISSN	E-ISSN: 1547-3163 Print ISSN: 1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: Volume 10, published in 2013, is the tenth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

J.R.R. Tolkien's poem "Once upon a Time" was reprinted, for the first time since 1969, in this issue. It was later included in the extended The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

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Contents

• Articles
  • Claudio A. Testi, "Tolkien's Work: Is it Christian or Pagan?: A proposal for a 'synthetic' approach"
  • Nils Ivar Agøy, "Vague or Vivid?: Descriptions in The Lord of the Rings"
  • Hope Rogers, "No Triumph without Loss: Problems of Intercultural Marriage in Tolkien's Works"
  • Thomas Honegger, "My Most Precious Riddle: Eggs and Rings Revisited"
  • Michael Organ, "Tolkien's Japonisme: Prints, Dragons and a Great Wave"
  • Renée Vink, "'Jewish' Dwarves: Tolkien and anti-Semitic stereotyping"
  • Derek Shank, "'The Web of Story': Structuralism in Tolkien's 'On Fairy-stories'"
  • Benjamin Saxton, "Tolkien and Bakhtin on Authorship, Literary Freedom, and Alterity"

• Notes and Documents
  • Kris Swank, "Tom Bombadil's Last Song: Tolkien's 'Once Upon A Time'"

• Book Reviews
  • An Hobad, translated by Nicholas Williams, and Hobbitus Ille, translated by Mark Walker, reviewed by Harley J. Sims
  • The Quenya Alphabet (Parma Eldalamberon 20), by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Arden R. Smith, reviewed by Edith L. Crowe
  • The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, reviewed by Sarah Beach
  • Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, by Corey Olsen, and There and Back Again, by Mark Atherton, reviewed by Jason Fisher
  • Green Suns and Faërie, by Verlyn Flieger, reviewed by John D. Rateliff
  • The Broken Scythe, edited by Roberto Arduini and Claudio A. Testi, reviewed by John Garth
  • A Hobbit Journey, by Matthew Dickerson, and A Hobbit Devotional, by Ed Strauss, reviewed by Donald T. Williams

• Merlin DeTardo, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2010"
• Rebecca Epstein, David Bratman, and Merlin DeTardo, "Bibliography (In English) for 2011"

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 10 at Project Muse