Citation :v Editors’ Introduction

vii Conventions and Abbreviations

1 “Legend and History Have Met and Fused”: The Interlocution of Anthropology, Historiography, and Incarnation in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories”
Philip Irving Mitchell

23 Tolkien’s Goldberry and The Maid of the Moor
John M. Bowers

37 Language in Tolkien’s “Bagme Bloma”
Lucas Annear

51 “Wingless fluttering”: Some Personal Connections in Tolkien’s Formative Years
José Manuel Ferrández Bru

Notes and Documents:

67 Robert Quilter Gilson, T.C.B.S.: A Brief Life in Letters
John Garth

97 The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training Corps
Janet Brennan Croft

114 Book Reviews
Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
Contains reviews of Quenya Phonology: Comparative Tables, Outline of Phonetic Development, Outline of Phonology by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson [review by John Garth]; Hither Shores volumes four and five [review by Mark T. Hooker]; Music in Middle-earth edited by Heidi Steimel and Friedhelm Schneidewind [review by Gerald Seaman]; Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien edited by Bradford Lee Eden [review by Gerald Seaman]; The Power of Tolkien’s Prose: Middle-Earth’s Magical Style by Steve Walker [review by Richard C. West]; The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise, edited by Christopher Tolkien [review by Tom Shippey]; and Book Notes by Douglas A. Anderson.

143 Review-Essay: The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference: 50 Years of“The Lord of the Rings” two volumes, edited by Sarah Wells
Deidre A. Dawson

243 The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2008
David Bratman and Merlin DeTardo

297 Bibliography (in English) for 2009
Compiled by Rebecca Epstein and David Bratman with Michael D.C. Drout, Merlin DeTardo, and Douglas A. Anderson

309 Notes on Contributors

Citation :As a side note, Volumes 1-4 and 6 are sold out, and the press confirmed with me that there are no plans to reissue any volumes. All of the volumes are still available in electronic format, however.

Citation :

• John Garth, "'The road from adaptation to invention': How Tolkien came to the brink of Middle-earth in 1914"
  
  
• Sister Maria Frassati Jakupcak, OP: "'A Particular Cast of Fancy': Addison’s Walk with Tolkien and Lewis"
  
  
• Nelson Goering: "Lŷg and Leuca: 'Elven-Latin,' Archaic Languages, and the Philology of Britain"
  
  
• Bernhard Hirsch: "After the 'end of all things': the long return home to the Shire"
  
  
• Richard Z. Gallant: "Original Sin in Heorot and Valinor"
  
  
• Michael A. Wodzak and Victoria Holtz Wodzak: "Visibílium Ómnium et Invisibílium: Looking Out, On, and In Tolkien’s World"
  
  
• Verlyn Flieger: "But What Did He Really Mean?"
  
  
• Michael D.C. Drout, Namiko Hitotsubashi and Rachel Scavera: "Tolkien's Creation of the Impression of Depth"
  

Book Reviews

• The Fall of Arthur, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, reviewed by Verlyn Flieger
  
  
• Qenya Noun Structure, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne, and Arden R. Smith; Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon, together with The Poetic and Mythologic Words of Eldarissa, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson, Carl F. Hostetter, Patrick Wynne and Arden R. Smith, revised 3rd printing; Proceedings of the Third International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages, Omentielva Nelya, Whitehaven, 2009, edited by "Beregond," Anders Stenström; reviewed by John Garth
  
  
• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, edited by Peter Hunt, reviewed by Gerard Hynes
  
  
• The Riddles of The Hobbit, by Adam Roberts, reviewed by Thomas Honegger
  
  
• The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams, by Margaret Hiley, reviewed by Catherine Butler
  
  
• The Making of Middle-earth: A New Look Inside the World of J.R.R. Tolkien, by Christopher Snyder; The Essential Tolkien Trivia and Quiz Book: A Middle-earth Miscellany, by William MacKay; reviewed by David Bratman
  

Merlin DeTardo, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2011"

Rebecca Epstein and David Bratman, "Bibliography (In English) for 2012"

Citation :- Kelly M. Wickham-Crowley, "'Mind to Mind': Tolkien's Faërian Drama and the Middle English Sir Orfeo"
- Kris Swank, "The Irish Otherworld Voyage of Roverandom"
- Simon Cook, "The Peace of Frodo: On the Origin of an English Mythology"
- Carrol Fry, "'Two Musics about the Throne of Ilúvatar': Gnostic and Manichaean Dualism in The Silmarillion"
- Alban Gautier, "From Dejection in Winter to Victory in Spring: Aragorn and Alfred, Parallel Episodes?"
- Sherrylyn Branchaw, "Boromir: Breaker of the Fellowship?"

Notes and Documents

- J.R.R. Tolkien, "Henry Bradley, 3 Dec. 1845-23 May 1923," an obituary for his supervisor at the Oxford English Dictionary, with commentary by Tom Shippey and Peter Gilliver

Book Reviews

- Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary together with Sellic Spell, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, reviewed by Michael D.C. Drout
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, reviewed by Richard C. West
- A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Stuart D. Lee, reviewed by Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso
- Tolkien: The Forest and the City, edited by Helen Conrad-O'Briain and Gerard Hynes, reviewed by Patrick Curry
- Tolkien, by Raymond Edwards, reviewed by David Bratman

- "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2012," by Merlin DeTardo, Jason Fisher, David Bratman, Marjorie Burns, John Wm. Houghton, John Magoun
- "Bibliography (in English) for 2013," compiled by Rebecca Epstein and David Bratman