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PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Compiled by Ardamir of the Lord of the Rings Fanatics Forum (http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/) Issue Time of no. release 1 1970 3 1971 5 1972 Page nos. 23 2? Article/Illustration Author/ Artist James Ead Vera Chapman Letter to the Editor Pro-Editorial from the Pro-Editor (includes a letter from Tolkien to Vera Chapman) Conversation with John Tolkien article on Tom Bombadil? An Extrapolation on "The Silmarillion" Editorial An Extrapolation on "The Silmarillion" 20-23 Rayner Unwins speech at the AGM (AGM report?) 30? A Marxist Look at Middle Earth; or, The Political Economy of the Shire 30? A Note on the Population and Settlement of Bree The Hobbits All that is gold does not glitter." Illustrated reprint in script 34-36 The Hobbits front illustration cover 24-28 The Battle of the Eastern Field (reprint from The King Edwards School Chronicle, Birmingham, Vol XXVI No 186, March, pp. 22-26) front illustration cover 3-5 The Battle of the Eastern Field: A Commentary 7-10 Review of An Introduction to Elvish (1978) 31-32 A Chronology of the First Age 14-15 Gimli's Asce (Axe?) 16-20 Specula of Middle-earth 23-28 Not an Orderly Narrator: Inaccuracies and Ambiguities in the Early Chapters of the Red Book of Westmarch 6-11 33

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Jan. 1973 1973 1974

Archie Mercer Jim Allan Jim Allan Edward Crawford Edward Crawford Kevin Young Lucy Matthews Kevin Young Pauline Baynes J.R.R. Tolkien

1975

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1978

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1979

Pauline Baynes Jessica Yates Clive Tolley Jonathan Simon Brin Dunsire Pat Masson

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1980

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Sept. 1980 May 1981

Review of Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, eds., J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Story-teller: Essays in Memoriam The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Brief Account of Christopher the Book and Its Making Tolkien English in Fanorean David Masson 3-5, 7-8 The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Brief Account of Christopher the Book and Its Making Tolkien The Peter Roe Memorial Fund (includes Dwarvish Fragments by Peter Roe) 13-15 The Kalevala and The Silmarillion Clive Tolley Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Unfinished Tales illustration

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front cover 9-12, 14- J.R.R. Tolkien: Lexicography and Other Early 15, 19- Linguistic Preferences 22, 24-26 29-31 Music in Middle-earth 17 Oct. 1981 11-17 Mandala Symbolism in The Lord of the Rings Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (Selected and edited by Humphrey Carpenter) The Choices of Master Sibley 18 June 5-9 A Phytogeography of Middle-Earth 1982 11-16 Review of Richard West's Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist 13-16 J.R.R. Tolkien: Translator 21-24 A Chronology of the Careers of Trin and Tuor 31-33 Tolkien's Influence on The Chronicles of Narnia 19 Dec. 5-7, 28 Christianity and Kingship in Tolkien and Lewis 1982 9-13 Studies in the Chronology of Middle-Earth 21-24 The Indo-Iranian Influence on Tolkien 25-28 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields: An Impossible Victory? 31-33 The Doom of the World 20 Sept. 1983 5-10 Before Puck - The Pkel-men and the Puca

Pauline Baynes

Gill Gleeson Johan Vanhecke

Karen Goodwin Charles Noad Joe Christopher Donald OBrien Jessica Yates Caroline Monks

Michael McClain David Bell Brennen McKenzie J.S. Ryan Kathleen Herbert Ted Crawford Charles Noad Iwan Rhys Morus Nils Ivar Agy

12-13, 22 Review of Finn and Hengest 15-17? The Geography and Economy of Nmenor 18-22? Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays 19-22 The Tale of Beren and Lthien 25-27 Mr. Bliss: The Precursor of a Precursor

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June 1984

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Review of T. A. Shippey's The Road to Middle-Earth The Lord of the Rings as Tragedy

Carol Jeffs Charles Noad Margaret Askew

11-13 Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-earth) 15-19 Lord of the Isles: No, Sorry Mr Giddings, I Mean Rings 23-28 The Gorren: A Tale of Later Years

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April 1985

Christine Davidson 23-28 In Defense of Fantasy Jessica Yates 36-38 The Tree of Tales Dylan Pugh 5-11 Orom and the Wild Hunt: The Development of a Myth Michael Burgess

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13-16 Tolkiens Shire and Wagners Nuremberg: A John A. Ellison Comparison 21-23 Cultural Name Association: A Tolkien Example from J.S. Ryan Gilgamesh 25-31 Other Minds and Hands: An Experiment in Kathleen Herbert Reconstructing The Tale of Valacar and Vidumavi 33-36 The Forest Carol Jeffs 39 From Genesis to Revelation in Middle-Earth Irene Garnett 40-41 From Genesis to Revelation in Middle-Earth Michael Burgess Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Book of Lost Tales II (The History of Middle-earth) Summer front illustration Pauline Baynes 1986 cover 5-9 The Use and Misuse of Fantasy Kathleen Jones 10-13 From Innocence to Experience: The Naivete of J.R.R. John A. Ellison Tolkien 14-16 Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lays of Beleriand (The Charles Noad History of Middle-earth) 17-23 Of Amalion Denis Bridoux 25-29 Warg, Wearg, Earg, and Werewolf J.S. Ryan 30-36 The Fairy-Tale Tradition Christina Scull Sept. 5-7, 10 A Delusion Unmasked Jeff Stevenson 1987 Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Shaping of Middleearth (The History of Middle-earth) 13-15 The Stone of Erech Jenny Curtis 16-17 The Wild Hunt: Sir Orfeo and J.R.R. Tolkien J.S. Ryan 25-27 A Merry Fellow Carol Jeffs 28-34 Extrapolations from the Tolkien Kenton E. Wittrup Sept. Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lost Road and Other 1988 Writings 5-8 The Lord of The Rings: The B.B.C. Radio 4 Serial James Kearney

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1989

12-14 15-17 20-22 30-32 5-15 31-33 17-20 21-24 25-27 35-38 28-30 39-43

Whose Ring Is It, Anyway? Grima the Wormtongue: Tolkien and His Sources The Tolkien Formation with a Lively Example The Draining of Moria Cock and Bull about Epic Fantasy

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Sept. 1990

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K.C. Fraser John Rateliff J.S.Ryan Michael Percival Madawc Williams Splintered Darkness Alex Lewis The Legendary War and the Real One: The Lord of the John A. Ellison Rings and the Climate of Its Times Orchestras of Middle-earth Alex Lewis The Geographical Relation between Beleriand and Ronald E. Eriador Kyrmse Books, Literature and Literacy in Middle-Earth Wayne G. Hammond On Illustrating Tolkien Ted Nasmith The Religious Ritual and Practise of the Elves of Michael R. Middle-Earth at the Time of the War of the Ring Hickman Uprooting the Golden Bough: J. R. R. Tolkiens Iwan Rhys Response to Nineteenth Century Folklore and Morus Comparative Mythology On Reading and Re-Reading The Lord of the Rings Christina Scull The Religious Rituals of the Dnedain of Gondor Michael R. Hickman Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Treason of Isengard (The History of Middle-earth) Review of Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography (1989) by Ruth Nadelmann Lynn The Structure of The Hobbit John A. Ellison Green Rocks, White Ship: Oilima Markirya (The Last Patricia Reynolds Ark) A Note on the Geography of the First Age [Rpt. from Charles Noad Amon Hen 5 (1979), 38] Celtic Influences on the History of the First Age Marie Barnfield Patricia Reynolds Madawc Williams Alex Lewis Lisa Hopkins John A. Ellison Jenny Coombs, Marc Read Neil Holford

Frithuwold and the Farmer: Farmer Giles of Ham and His Place in History 12-14 The Quest for Imladris 15-18 Sordid Suburbia 19-21 The Hobbit and A Midsummer Night's Dream 23-28 Sublime Scenes and Horrid Novels: Milestones along the Road to Middle-Earth 29-35 Valaquanta and the Energy of the Valar 29 August 3-5 The Geology of the Northern Kingdom and Its

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Implications for Its People More Celtic Influences: Nmenor and the Second Age Endogamy and Exogamy in the Works of Tolkien Saurons Darkness Before and After Dressed to Kill Tolkien and Beethoven The Secret War and the End of the First Age: Tolkien in the (former) USSR 39-40 Reflections on the Tolkien Bibliography 6-13 15-16 17-20 20 21-24 26-30 33-38

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Sept. 1993

41-42 Publishing Tolkien 44-53 The Genesis of Arda Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's Sauron Defeated: The End of the Third Age; The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Four; The Notion Club Papers; and,The Drowning of Anadn (The History of Middle-earth) Review of the Tolkien Collection Review of The Tolkien Family Album 5-9 Elvish and Welsh David Doughan

Marie Barnfield Lisa Hopkins Alex Lewis Lucy Bray Helen Armstrong John A. Ellison Maria Kamenkovkh Wayne G. Hammond Rayner Unwin Donald OBrien

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Dec. 1994

10-13 The Earliest Days of Gondor: An Experiment in Middle- Ruth Lacon Earth Historiography 14-20 The Hobbit and Tolkien's Other Pre-War Writings, II John Rateliff, Christina Scull 21-28 Tolkiens Art John A. Ellison 29-31 It Bore Me Away: Tolkien as Horseman Helen Armstrong 46-49 The Dream of Getting Lost (review of the Faeroese Hanus translation of The Hobbit) Andreassen Review of Rosebury, Tolkien A Critical Assessment Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's Morgoth's Ring (The History of Middle-earth) 5 Editorial John A. Ellison Reappraising Gawain: Pagan Champion or Christian Knight 15-19 Bells and Bell-Ringing in Middle-Earth 20-28 29-36 37-44 54-56 7-14 John Matthews

Martin Hardgrave Before Defended Walls: Hill-Forts and Fortified Sites in John A. Ellison Northern Eriador in the Second and Third Ages Trin Turambar and the Tale of the Fosterling Marie Barnfield The Economy and Economic History of Gondor Ruth Lacon J.I.M. Stewart, J.B. Timbermill and J.R.R. Tolkien Jessica Yates Review of A Tribute to JRR Tolkien Review of David Day's Tolkien's Ring Review of Scholarship and Fantasy

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Review of The Inklings Vol. 10 Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The War of the Jewels (The History of Middle-earth) 5-14 And the Word Was Made Flesh Clive Tolley 15-20 The Fall From Grace - Decline and Fall in MiddleLen Sanford Earth: Metaphors for Nordic and Christian Theology in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion 21-24 An Ethnically Cleansed Faery? Tolkien and the Matter David Doughan of Britain 28-35 Notes toward a History of the Easterlings Ruth Lacon Unpublished contributions Editorial Opening Address Section 1: Recollection and Remembrance Reminiscences: Oxford in 1920, Meeting Tolkien and Becoming an Author at 77. Tolkien Centenary Banquet Address.

Vera Chapman

Glenn H. Goodknight Sermon at Thanksgiving Service, Keble College Chapel, Fr. Robert 23rd August 1992. Murray Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien. George Sayer Publishing Tolkien. Rayner Unwin Section 2: Sources and Influences Quid Hinieldus cum Christo? - New Perspectives on Tolkien's Theological Dilemma and his Sub-Creation Theory Tolkien's Experiment with Time: The Lost Road, "The Notion Club Papers" and J.W.Dunne. Higher Argument: Tolkien and the tradition of Vision, Epic and Prophecy An Anthropologist in Middle-earth Frodo and his Spectre: Blakean Resonances in Tolkien. An Overview of the Northern Influences on Tolkien's Works Volsunga Saga and Narn: Some Analogies. Tolkien's Revision of the Romantic Tradition. Tolkien as a Post-War Writer Where do Elves go to? Tolkien and a Fantasy Tradition

Nils Ivar Agy

Verlyn Flieger Deirdre Greene Virginia Luling Charles E. Noad Gloriana St. Clair Gloriana St. Clair Chris Seeman Tom Shippey Norman Talbot

Section 3: The Lord of the Rings Eating, Devouring, Sacrifice and Ultimate Just Desserts Marjorie Burns Power and Knowledge in Tolkien: The Problem of Jane Chance Difference in "The Birthday Party"

The Moral Epiphanies in The Lord of the Rings

"Less Noise and More Green": Tolkien's Ideology for England The Earthly Paradise in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Gwenyth Hood Tolkien as Reviser: A Case Study Gloriana St. Clair Open Minds, Closed Minds in The Lord of the Rings Christina Scull Section 4: The Silmarillion Historical Bias in the Making of The Silmarillion Aspects of the Fall in The Silmarillion

Joe R. Christopher Patrick Curry

Alex Lewis Eric Schweicher

Section 5: Linguistics and Lexicography At the Wordface: J.R.R. Tolkien's Work on the Oxford Peter M. Gilliver English Dictionary The Growth of Grammar in the Elven Tongues Christopher Gilson, Patrick Wynne Tolkien's Dictionary Poetics: The Influence of the Deirdre Greene OED's Defining Style on Tolkien's Fiction Problems of Translating into Russian Natalia Grigorieva J.R.R. Tolkien and Old English Studies: An Bruce Mitchell Appreciation Tolkien and the Gawain-poet Tom Shippey Section 6: Response and Reaction How Russians See Tolkien The Critical Response to Tolkien's Fiction Tolkien the Anti-totalitarian Section 7: Tolkien Studies Good Guys, Bad Guys, Fantasy and Reality The Realm of Farie Point of View in Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien and the Clerihew Power in Arda: Sources, Uses and Misuses Tolkien and Englishness A Mythology for England A Tolkien Chronology Evil and the Evil One in Tolkien's Theology

Vladimir Grushetskiy Wayne G. Hammond Jessica Yates

Helen Armstrong Christine Barkley Christine Barkley Joe R. Christopher Edith L. Crowe Chris Hopkins Carl F. Hostetter, Arden R. Smith Nancy Martsch Tadeusz Andrzej Olszanski

Tolkien's Exceptional Visit to Holland: A Reconstruction A Mythology? For England? Tolkien's Elvish Craft Section 8: Middle-earth Studies A Physics of Middle-earth. Explorations into the Psyche of Dwarves The Geology of Middle-earth Writing and Allied Technologies in Middle-earth Section 9: The Inklings Hermetic Imagination: The Effect of The Golden Dawn on Fantasy Literature. Tolkien, Sayers, Sex and Gender Tolkien and the Other Inklings. Female Authority Figures in the Works of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams More than a Bandersnatch: Tolkien as a Collaborative Writer A Pattern Which Our Nature Cries Out For: The Medival Tradition of the Ordered Four in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien Section 10: Flights of Fancy Baggins Remembered A Short History of the Territorial Development of the Dwarves' Kingdoms in the Second and Third Ages Of Middle-earth The Mechanics of Dragons.. An Introduction to The Study of their 'Ologies Section 11: Other Writers Tales of Wonder - Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Age of Jane Austen Natural Mysticism in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows Cetacean Consciousness in Katz's Whalesinger and L'Engle's A Ring of Endless Light 7-11 J. R. R. Tolkiens Genealogies: The Roots of His SubCreation 13-19 Power, Domination and Egocentrism in Tolkien and Orwell

Ren van Rossenberg Anders Stenstrm Dwayne Thorpe

Jenny Coombs, Marc Read David A. Funk William Antony Swithin Sarjeant Lester E. Simons

Charles A. Coulombe David Doughan Colin Duriez Lisa Hopkins Diana Lynne Pavlac Stephen Yandell

John Ellison Hubert Sawa

Angela Surtees, Steve Gardner

Madawc Williams J.R. Wytenbroek J.R. Wytenbroek Daniel Patrick Timmons John Flood

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1996

21-24 Tolkien and Space Travel

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1997 15-19 20-24 25-32 37-44 45-53 54-59

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Nov. 1998

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Mark (Anothony?) Appleyard Gandalf, Frodo, and Sherlock Holmes: Myth and Reality John A. Ellison Compared in the Works of Tolkien and Conan Doyle Review of J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator John Ellison Review of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Peoples of MiddleEarth (The History of Middle-earth) The Balrog Report Problems of Good and Evil in Tolkiens The Lord of the Craig Clark Rings The Hill at Hobbiton: Vernacular Architecture in the Pat Reynolds Shire Eucatastrophe and the Gift of Iluvatar in Middle-earth Christopher Garbowski Tolkien's Trees Claudia Riiff Finseth The Shire and Notting Hill Michael Foster What Have We Brought on Ourselves? Tolkien and Mark (Anthony?) Space Travel, II Appleyard Review of J.R.R. Tolkien (Series: "Writers and their John Ellison Work") by Charles Moseley Review of Defending Middle-Earth - Tolkien: Myth & Sarah Wells Modernity by Patrick Curry There Are Two People in This Marriage Helen Armstrong

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Dec. 1999

13-15 The Lord of the Rings Tarot Deck: Not Necessarily Charlie Betz Middle-earth 11-18 Queer Lodgings: Gender and Sexuality in The Lord of David M. Craig the Rings 17-23 Too Deeply Hurt: Understanding Frodos Decision to Karyn Milos Depart 25-27 A Pre-History of Hobbits Ruth Lacon 28-34 A Fiftieth Anniversary Walk (Or There and Back Again, Alex Lewis an Academics Day Out) 31-34 Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien 35-42 Tolkiens World and Wagners: The Music of Language John A. Ellison and the Language of Music 43-50 Fanfare for the Common Man Len Sanford 51-57 The Lord of the Rings: A Myth for Modern Englishmen Margarita Gonzalez Carretero Review of A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to John Ellison Farie by Verlyn Flieger 5-13 In Search of the Shire: Tolkien and the Counties of David Bratman England 15-18 Tom Bombadils Biblical Connections Ron Pirson

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Sept. 2001

21-27 The History of Middle-earth: from a Mythology for Christopher England to a Recovery of the Real Earth Garbowski 21-27 The Virtual History of Middle-earth John A. Ellison 35-39 The Invisible Shire Ruth Lacon Review of Tolkien: Man and Myth. A Literary Life by Michael Tolkien Joseph Pearce 5-10 Magic vs. Enchantment Patrick Curry 11-18 Queer Lodgings: Gender and Sexuality in The Lord of David M. Craig the Rings 21-29 Images of Evil in Tolkiens World John A. Ellison 31-35 Realistic Fantasy: the Example of J. R. R. Tolkiens The Nicholaos Koravos Lord of the Rings 3-6 Legendary and Historical Time in The Lord of the Rings Allan Turner 15-22 Coming of Age: Changes of Heart: Growth and Enlightenment in The Lord of the Rings 23-29 An Orcs-eye View of the History of Middle-earth 30-32 Icons of Jesus Christ in The Lord of the Rings 33-37 The Shire: Its Bounds, Food and Farming 38-40 Tolkien Why Is He Important Today? Short story: 'Ytenelinga saga' Reviews of Peter Jacksons The Fellowship of the Ring 7-12 J.R.R. Tolkiens Moral Imagination Christine Davidson John A. Ellison Jean Chausse William A.S. Sarjeant Valerie Anand, Dale Nelson Lynn Forest-Hill

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Nov. 2002

13-14 Tolkien's Marian Vision of Middle-earth 15-21 28 29-31 32-38 39-44 41 July 2003 9-11 The Hamletian Hobbit Treebeards Voice The Lord of the Rings and the Four Loves Binary Issues and Feminist Issues in LOTR J.R.R. Tolkien's Use of an Old English Charm The Ring (an essay on Tolkiens mythology) Reviews of Peter Jacksons The Two Towers Tolkien's Middle-earth and the Catholic Imagination

Gary L. Willhite, John R.D. Bell. Donald P. Richmond Laura Marples John A. Ellison Dale Nelson David Pretorius Edward Pettit

26-33 Reading Lord of the Rings: The Final Attempt: An Analysis of a Web Community

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Aug. 2004

42-43 Coinage in middle-earth Re-writing the Past: The Pillars of Middle-earth Short story: The Nine Herbs Charm' Lynn Forest-Hill The Road goes ever on ... The 'Journey' motive in LOR

Christopher Garbowski Janet Brennan Croft, Jay Shorten Kenneth Fraser

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front cover inside illustration Kay Woollard front cover 1 illustration Kay Woollard About the Tolkien Society Editorial 3-10 Arnor: The Nmenrean Inheritance Marjorie Willetts 5 illustration Jef Murray 9 illustration Lorenzo Daniele 11-14 Traitors and translators: three German versions of The Susanne Stopfel Lord of the Rings 13 illustration Jef Murray 15-19 The Road Goes Ever On: Tolkiens Use of the Journey John Ellison Motive in Constructing The Lord of the Rings 17 illustration John Ellison 20-22 Botanical Notes on the Mallorn Beth Russell 23-26 Arthur and Aragorn: Arthurian influence in The Lord of Richard J. Finn the Rings 27-29 A History of Song: Transmission of Memory in Middle- Michael earth Cunningham 30-37 Tolkien's women (and men): the film and the book Jane Chance 32 illustration Jill Thwaites 33 illustration Jill Thwaites 38-42 Gandalf as Torturer: The Ticking Bomb Terrorist and Adam Rosman Due Process in J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings 41 illustration Jef Murray 43-48 Merry in Focus: On Ring Fever, Having Adventure, Hilary Longstaff Being Overlooked, and Not Getting Left Behind 45 illustration Lorenzo Daniele

Reviews of Peter Jacksons The Return of the King Reasons for Not Liking Tolkien Caroline Galwey Treebeard's Roots in Medieval European Tradition Edward Pettit And One White Tree: The Cosmological Cross and the Christopher T. Arbor Vitae in J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings Vaccaro and The Silmarillion Warm Beds Are Good: Sex and Libido in Tolkien's Ty Rosenthal Writing The Chronology of Middle-earth Tony Steele The Morality of Military Leadership Janet Brennan Croft Perspectives on Reality in The Lord of the Rings, part 1 Gerardo Barajas Garrido Short story: Seeing things Lynn Forest-Hill Illustration: At the Grey Havens Jef Murray illustration Pauline Baynes

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Spring 2008

49-52 Tolkien's Burning Briar: An Astronomical Explanation Kristine Larsen 50 illustration John Ellison 53-59 Perspectives on reality in Lord of the Rings, part 2 Gerardo Barajos Garrido 55 illustration Katrin Kunde About the authors back illustration John Ellison cover In the Shadow of the Tree: A study of the motif of the Michael White Tree in the context of JRR Tolkiens MiddleCunningham earth Jewish influences in Middle-earth Zak Cramer Tolkien-on-sea: The view from the shores of MiddleJohn Ellison earth Swords and sky stones: Meteoric iron in The Kristine Larsen Silmarillion Frodo as Beowulf: Tolkien reshapes the Anglo-Saxon Robert Goldberg Heroic Ideal On Tom Bombadil: The function of Tom Bombadil Klaus Jensen, Ruairidh MacDonald I have looked the last on that which is fairest: Elegy in Leigh Smith Beowulf and Tolkiens Lothlorien Aragorn: Tales of the heir of Isildur: Part I the Hkan Arvidsson evolution of the man front illustration Jef Murray cover 3 Guest Editorial: An Encyclopedia of Ignorance Tom Shippey 5 Letters to the Editor: Please, No Not the Comfy Chair Jef Stevenson, Virginia Luling 8 Review of Tolkien Studies: an Annual Scholarly Review, David Doughan Vol. IV 9-10 Review of Beowulf Henry Gee 10-11 Review of The Lord of the Rings: the Stage Musical Laura Marples 11-12 Review of Explore Fairy Traditions Pat Reynolds 12-13 Review of The Golden Compass Pat Reynolds 13-14 Review of The Children of Hrin Mike Foster 14-15 Review of The Keys of Middle-earth John Damon 15-16 Review of Roots and Branches Maggie Burns 16-20 Women, Oxford and Tolkien David Doughan 20-23 Demons, Choices, and Grace in The Lord of the Rings Chad Chisholm 24-27 Tolkiens Birmingham Bob Blackham 27-31 John Ronalds Schooldays Maggie Burns 31-36 (V)Arda Marred The Evolution of the Queen of the Kristine Larsen Stars 37-44 Fiction: White Annays Lynn Forest-Hill

44-45 Fiction: Mayan Wayfinding 45-49 Fiction: Across The Sea of No Return 50 Word Magic

back illustration cover * Proceedings of the Tolkien Centenary Conference 1992

Brenda Cooper Gareth Caradoc Owens Cecilia DartThornton Colleen Doran