[Parution] Tolkien Studies

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Le sommaire du volume 12, dont un article "ultra-rare" de Tolkien, une nécrologie de Henry Bradley qui l'a embauché sur l'Oxford English Dictionary :

- 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

A noter cette année, un changement de format qui passe par un changement de couverture (on passe d'une couverture dure à une souple), ce qui va sans doute diminuer le prix d'achat (ce qui n'est pas peu dire) et que par un nouveau design, dans la lignée de l'ancien.