| Amon Hen 2 | |
|---|---|
| Publication Information | |
| Editor | John Martin |
| Publisher | The Tolkien Society |
| Released | December 1972 |
| Pages | 13 |
| ISSN | 0306-8781 |
| Preceded by | Henneth Annûn 1 |
| Followed by | Amon Hen 3 |
Amon Hen 2 is the second issue of the The Tolkien Society's bimonthly journal Amon Hen, published in December 1972. It was the first issue to be published under the name Amon Hen, following Henneth Annûn 1.
Contents
- Note: All content is presumably written by John Martin unless indicated otherwise
- Editorial note
- "Mallorns to Come"
- Committee meeting business
- Mallorn news
- Annual General Meeting announcement by Belladonna Took (Vera Chapman)
- "Innmoot, London" (report by Vera Chapman)
- Announcement of Archie Mercer as membership secretary
- Letters to the editor by John B. Abbott, Jon Harvey, Graham England, Grahame Lamb, Tony Fallone, Bernard Peek, Gordon Larkin, and Roger Johnson
- "BOOKS…BOOKS…BOOKS…BOOKS…BOOKS…and more BOOKS still!"
- "Books to borrow" by Peter Herring (suggested sci-fi, fantasy, and non-fiction books)
- Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin (reviewed by Graham England)
- Njal's Saga, Penguin Classics edition (reviewed by Graham England)
- Grendel by John Gardiner (reviewed by Graham England)
- Note on Smials (local branches of the Tolkien Society)
- Letter from Marion Zimmer Bradley
- List of new members and changes of address
- Note on the sale of Tolkien's desk by Vera Chapman
- Untitled poem by Robert Grant ("Now Bilbo of Bag End loved rest")
- "Fourteen Twenty" by Hartley Patterson (column on Tolkien Society committee business)
See also
- Amon Hen, the Hill of Sight, the place the journal is named after
- List of Amon Hen issues
- Amon Hen cover art gallery
- Mallorn, another, and more academic, journal of The Tolkien Society