Tolkien Studies: Volume 20

Tolkien Studies: Volume 20
Publication Information
Editor	David Bratman, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University Press
Released	August, 2024
Format	Paperback; electronic
Pages	327
ISSN	1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: Volume 20, published in August 2024, but actually being the 2023 issue, is the twentieth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

The great postponement is said to have been caused by financial problems in the WV University Press.

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Contents

• Articles
  • David Bratman, "In Memoriam: Charles E. Noad, 1949-2023"
  • John M. Bowers, "Durin's Stone, the Ruthwell Cross, and the Dream of the Rood"
  • Verlyn Flieger, "Tolkien's Great Tales"
  • Thomas P. Hillman, "The Great Tales, Tragedy, and Fairy-story in 'The Choices of Master Samwise'"
  • John F. Whitmire Jr., "An Archaeology of Hope and Despair in the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"
  • Kenton L. Sena, "Ecological Memory in Middle-earth: Environmental Legacies of Abuse and Care in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien"
  • Ben Reinhard, "The Pillars of Atlantis: Christopher Dawson, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Shadow of World War II"
  • Patrick Lyon, "Though You Travel Every Road: Heraclitean Paths in Middle-earth"
  • Seth Kreeger, "Metaphysical Considerations of Eä: Creation and Providence in Tolkien and Aquinas"

• Notes and Documents
  • Peter Gilliver, "Caught in the Philological Net: Tolkien's Lexicographers"
  • Samuel Cardwell, "A Second Source for Samwise?"

• Book Reviews
  • The Battle of Maldon: Together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Peter Grybauskas, reviewed by Michael D. C. Drout
  • The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien, edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine, reviewed by Grace Khuri
  • The Fall of Númenor and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Brian Sibley, reviewed by Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
  • Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology Through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth, by Austin M. Freema, reviewed by Tom Emanuel
  • Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist, by Oronzo Cilli, reviewed by David Bratman

• Cami D. Agan, David Bratman, Kate Neville, Jennifer Rogers, Jonathan Evans, John Wm. Houghton, John Magoun, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2020"
• David Bratman, "Bibliography (in English) for 2021"

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 20 at Project Muse
• Tolkien Studies 20: an announcement on David's blog