Amon Hen (journal)

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Amon Hen

Latest editor	Cate Palmer-Billing, Amanda Drake and Mathew Suta
Website	Amon Hen at the Tolkien Society website
Publication Information
Publisher	The Tolkien Society
Released	November 1972 - present
Frequency	Bimonthly
Format	A5 stapled paperback
Pages	up to 44
ISSN	0306-8781

Amon Hen is the bulletin of The Tolkien Society. Published bimonthly continually since 1972, Amon Hen contains Tolkien-related news, reviews, articles, event details, artwork, letters, and features.

Notable contributors to Amon Hen have included: Christopher Tolkien, Ted Nasmith, Tom Shippey, Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull, Roger Lancelyn Green, John D. Rateliff and Brian Sibley.

List of Amon Hen editors

	Name	First issue	Last issue	Issues
1	John Martin	Henneth Annûn 1	Amon Hen 6	6
2&3	Stuart Clark and Keith Walker	Amon Hen 7		1
3	Keith Walker	Amon Hen 8		1
2&3	Stuart Clark and Keith Walker	Amon Hen 9		1
2	Stuart Clark	Amon Hen 10	Amon Hen 11	2
4&2	Rosie and Stuart Clark	Amon Hen 12	Amon Hen 18	7
5	Jessica Kemball-Cook	Amon Hen 19	Amon Hen 27	9
6	Steve Wood	Amon Hen 28	Amon Hen 32	5
5	Jessica Yates (née Kemball-Cook)	Amon Hen 33	Amon Hen 34	2
7	Jeremy Morgan	Amon Hen 35	Amon Hen 44	10
8	Brin Dunsire	Amon Hen 45	Amon Hen 50	6
9	Jenny Smith	Amon Hen 51	Amon Hen 56	6
10	Christine Woolrich	Amon Hen 57	Amon Hen 63	7
11	Colin Davey	Amon Hen 64	Amon Hen 75	12
12	Iwan Rhys Morus	Amon Hen 76	Amon Hen 86	11
13	Mike Percival	Amon Hen 87	Amon Hen 100	14
14	Tony Curtis	Amon Hen 101	Amon Hen 111	11
15	Nick Brown	Amon Hen 112	Amon Hen 119	8
13	Mike Percival	Amon Hen 120		1
16	Derrick Stott	Amon Hen 121	Amon Hen 124	4
17	Amanda Fingleson	Amon Hen 125		1
18	Richard Fraser	Amon Hen 126	Amon Hen 130	5
17	Amanda Fingleson	Amon Hen 131		1
18	Richard Fraser Overton	Amon Hen 132	Amon Hen 142	11
19	Andrew McMurry	Amon Hen 143	Amon Hen 160	18
20	Andrew Butler	Amon Hen 161	Amon Hen 282	122
21	Darrell Curtis	Amon Hen 283		1
22, 23 & 24	Cate Billing, Ana Demartino and Mathew Suta	Amon Hen 284	Amon Hen 293	10
22, 23 & 25	Cate Palmer-Billing, Amanda Drake and Mathew Suta	Amon Hen 294	Amon Hen 299	5
22, 23	Cate Palmer-Billing, Amanda Drake	Amon Hen 300	Present	3

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Publications	Journals	Belladonna's Broadsheet (1969-1970) · Mallorn (1970-present) · The Tolkien Society Bulletin (1970-1971) · Andúril (1972) · Amon Hen (1972-present) · Quettar (1980-1995)
	Books	An Extrapolation on The Silmarillion (1975) · The Trees, the Jewels and the Rings (1977) · Tolkien in Oxford: The Tolkien Society Guide (1978) · The Tolkien Society Songbook (1985) · Tolkien and Romanticism (1988) · Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference (1995) · The Oxonmoot Songbook (1997) · The Filking Songbook (2001) · The Tolkien Society Guide to Oxford (2005) · Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference (2008) · Tolkien 2005 Souvenir Book (2009) · Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012 (2016)
	Peter Roe Books	1. Some Light on Middle-earth (1985) · 2. Leaves from the Tree (1991) · 3. The First and Second Ages (1992) · 4. Travel and Communication in Tolkien's Worlds (1996) · 5. Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 1 (1997) · 6. Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 2 (1998) · 7. Tolkien, the Sea and Scandinavia (1999) · 8. The Ways of Creative Mythologies (2000) · 9. Tolkien: A Mythology for England? (2000) · 10. The Best of Amon Hen, vol. 1 (2000) · 11. Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 3 (2001) · 12. Sindarin Lexicon (2001) · 13. The Best of Amon Hen, vol. 2 (2002) · 14. Tolkien: Influenced and Influencing (2005)· 15. Freedom, Fate and Choice in Middle-earth (2012) · 16. Journeys & Destinations (2015) · 17. Death and Immortality in Middle-earth (2017) · 18. Poetry and Song in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2018) · 19. Tolkien the Pagan? (2019) · 20. Adapting Tolkien (2021) · 21. Twenty-first Century Receptions of Tolkien (2022) · 22. Tolkien and Diversity (2023) · 23. Translating and Illustrating Tolkien (2023) · 24. Tolkien and the Gothic (2024)

List of Amon Hen editors

See also

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