Tolkien Studies Volume 7 (2010) goes to the printer!

Volume 7 of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review finally goes to the printer today, and I can release the table of contents. This is the largest volume ever, and I regret to say that some material planned for this volume didn't make it in.  A long book review got bumped to the next volume, and the Cumulative Index to volumes one through five will be available, for the time being, only through Project Muse, once volume 7 goes live (soon).  Subscribers to the hardcover volumes of Tolkien Studies should receive their copies sometime in August.

Tolkien Studies volume 7 (2010)

CONTENTS

v   Editors’ Introduction

vii   Conventions and Abbreviations

1 "The Books of Lost Tales: Tolkien as Metafictionist" VLADIMIR BRLJAK

35 "Faërian Cyberdrama: When Fantasy becomes Virtual Reality" PÉTER KRISTÓF MAKAI

55 "Coleridge’s Definition of Imagination and Tolkien’s Definition(s) of Faery" MICHAEL MILBURN

67 " 'Strange and free' —On Some Aspects of the Nature of Elves and Men" THOMAS FORNET-PONSE

91 "Refining the Gold: Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and the Northern Theory of Courage" MARY R.  BOWMAN

117 "Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation in Sir Orfeo: The Medieval Foundations of Tolkienian Fantasy" THOMAS HONEGGER

137 "Elladan and Elrohir: The Dioscuri in The Lord of the Rings" SHERRYLYN BRANCHAW

147 "Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and His Concept of Native Language: Sindarin and British-Welsh" YOKO HEMMI

175 “ 'Monsterized Saracens,' Tolkien’s Haradrim, and Other Medieval 'Fantasy Products'  MARGARET SINEX

197 "Myth, Milky Way, and the Mysteries of Tolkien’s Morwinyon, Telumendil, and Anarríma" KRISTINE LARSEN

Notes and Documents

211 “ 'The Story of Kullervo' and Essays on Kalevala"  J.R.R. TOLKIEN  Transcribed and edited by Verlyn Flieger

279 "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Fairies"  JOHN GARTH


291 "Book Reviews" COMPILED BY DOUGLAS A. ANDERSON:  containing a review/essay by Tom Shippey on JRRT"s The Lay of Sigurd and Gudrun;  John Garth on JRRT's Tengwesta Qenderinwa and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets Part 2 [Parma Eldalamberon XVIII];  John D. Rateliff on The Hobbitonian Anthology of Articles on J.R.R. Tolkien and His Legendarium by Mark T. Hooker; Arden R. Smith on Languages, Myths and History: An Introduction to the Linguistic and Literary Background of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fiction by Elizabeth Solopova; John D. Rateliff on Tolkien’s View: Windows into His World, by J. S. Ryan; and "Book Notes" by Douglas A. Anderson

347 "The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2007"  DAVID BRATMAN

379 "Bibliography (in English) for 2008" COMPILED BY REBECCA EPSTEIN, MICHAEL D.C. DROUT, AND DAVID BRATMAN

399  "Notes on Contributors"

A New Journal: Fastitocalon

I understand the first issue of the new academic journal Fastitocalon is just out (though I haven't got my contributor copy yet).  Articles are in English, though it's published in Germany, and edited by Thomas Honegger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) and Fanfan Chen (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan).  I have a column in it, "Notes on Neglected Fantasists."  Those authors covered in my first installment include: Elinore Blaisdel (1902-1994), George Blink (1796-1874), Oscar Cook (1888-1952),Alan Miller (fl. 1920s-1940s), Francis C. Prevot (1887-1967), and Ernst Raupach (1784-1852). Herein it is revealed for the first time in English that the famous vampire story "Wake Not the Dead!", which is often attributed to Ludwig Tieck and considered an important pre-Polidori vampire story, is in fact by someone else, and its first publication occurred in its original German three years after Polidori's 1819 watershed tale "The Vampyre".  Tolkienists will be pleased to note the contribution to this issue by Amy Amendt-Raduege, "Better Off Dead:  The Lesson of the Ringwraiths".  A table of contents, and various information about the journal, can be found at the publisher's website.

Tolkien-Online

A short Q & A I did with Adam Smith at Tolkien-Online.com has just been posted, and I thought some cross-mention between there and here would be in order. The interview is here.

New Volume of Tolkien Studies

Volume VI of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, which I co-edit along with Michael D. C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger, has just come out. For those with access to the (subscription) database Project Muse, the contents have been online for a few weeks. (You can see the table of contents, via Project Muse, by clicking here.)

A thorough index of all six volumes of Tolkien Studies was compiled by André Gand of the German Tolkien Society and can be seen here, or a nice pdf can be downloaded here.