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, published in 2008, is the fifth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

This issue reprints two texts by J.R.R. Tolkien: "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale", an essay first published in 1934, and "The Reeve's Tale: Version Prepared for Recitation at the 'Summer Diversions'", a version by Tolkien of one of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, first published in 1939.

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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"
  • James G. Davis, "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
  • The Children of Húrin, Narn i Chîn Húrin: The Tale of the Children of Húrin, by J.R.R Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, reviewed by Nicholas Birns
  • Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets (Parma Eldalamberon 16), by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Arden R. Smith, Christopher Gilson, Bill Welden, Carl F. Hostetter, and Patrick H. Wynne, reviewed by John Garth
  • The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth, by Elizabeth Whittingham, reviewed by Deidre A. Dawson
  • The Frodo Franchise: "The Lord of the Rings" and Modern Hollywood, by Kristen Thompson, reviewed by Dyrk Ashton
  • The History of The Hobbit, by John D. Rateliff, reviewed by Tom Shippey
  • Hither Shore: Interdisciplinary Journal of Modern Fantasy Literature, Jahrbuch der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V., edited by Thomas Fornet-Ponse (editor-in-chief), Marcel Bülles, Thomas Honegger, Rainer Nagel, Alexandra Velten, and Frank Weinreich, reviewed by Mark T. Hooker
  • Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien, by Ross Smith, reviewed by Dimitra Fimi
  • Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien, by Tom Shippey, reviewed by Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley
  • Tolkien and Modernity 1, and Tolkien and Modernity 2, edited by Frank Weinreich and Thomas Honegger, reviewed by Shaun F. D. Hughes
  • Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language, edited by Janet Brennan Croft, reviewed by Jared Lobdell
  • Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology, by Trevor Hart and Ivan Khovacs, reviewed by Michael J. Brisbois
  • Book Notes, by Douglas A. Anderson

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

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 5 at Project Muse