Tolkien Studies: Volume 17

Tolkien Studies: Volume 17
Editor	David Bratman, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University Press
Released	October, 2020
Format	Paperback; electronic
ISSN	1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: Volume 17, published in 2020, is the seventeenth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

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Contents

• Articles
  • Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, "Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020"
  • Michael P. Keaton, "Fairies at War: The Fall of Gondolin as the Cornerstone of Middle-earth"
  • Simon J. Cook, "The Expression of Faërie"
  • Christopher Gilson, "'He Constructed a Language L and Another LL': Diachronic Aspects of Tolkien's Early Philology"
  • Bo Kampmann Walther, "Lights Behind Thick Curtains: Images of Fear and Familiarity in Tolkien"
  • Hamish Williams, "Tolkien's Thalassocracy and Ancient Greek Seafaring People: Minoans, Phaeacians, Atlantans, and Númenóreans"
  • Peter Grybauskas, "A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man: Noteworthy Omission in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son"

• Notes and Documents
  • Maria Tsampouraki and Maria Sidiropoulou, "Witnessing Societal Change through Translated Versions of The Lord of the Rings"
  • Josh Woods, "Ring-wraiths and Dracula"

• Book Reviews
  • Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist, by Oronzo Cilli, reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft
  • Tolkien's Lost Chaucer, by John M. Bowers, reviewed by John D. Rateliff
  • Flora of Middle-earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium, by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, reviewed by Lynn Forest-Hill
  • A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger, edited by John D. Rateliff, reviewed by Matthew A. Fisher
  • Therapy through Faerie: Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U.K. Le Guin, by Anna Cholewa-Purgal, and The Lure of the Ring: Power, Addiction and Transcendence in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, by Alan James Strachan and Janet Coster, reviewed by John Rosegrant
  • Catalogue de l'Exposition Tolkien: Voyage en Terre du Milieu, edited by Vincent Ferré and Frédéric Manfrin, and Album de l'Exposition Tolkien: Voyage en Terre du Milieu, reviewed by Denis Bridoux

• David Bratman, Kate Neville, Jennifer Rogers, Robin Anne Reid, Jason Fisher, John Wm. Houghton, and John Magoun, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2017"
• David Bratman, "Bibliography (in English) for 2018"

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 17 at Project Muse