Amazon.com just put this year’s volume of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review up for advance order, and Michael Drout was kind enough to provide me with a summary of the contents, which I have included below. The book (these journal issues really are books, with 300+ pages each, hard covers, and a lot of good reading in-between) is due to be released in late May. If you pre-order from Amazon.com, they are currently offering an additional 5% off the lowest price they end up offering between now and the release of the book (it works out to less than $36 if you live in the United States.)
Contents
Revenge and Moral Judgement in Tolkien
Brian Rosebury
Rosebury on Tolkien: A Checklist
Douglas A. Anderson
“With chunks of poetry in between”: The Lord of the Rings and Saga Poetics
Carl Phelpstead
The Myth of the Ent and the Entwife
Corey Olsen
Showing Saruman as Faber: Tolkien and Peter Jackson
James Davis
Boromir, Byrhtnoth, and Bayard: Finding a Language for Grief in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Lynn Forest-Hill
Three Rings for-whom exactly? And why? Justifying the disposition of the Three Elven Rings
Jason Fisher
Chaucer as a Philologist
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Reeve’s Tale (1939)
J.R.R. Tolkien
Steiner on Tolkien
Ross Smith
Tolkien, Oxford’s Eccentric Don (1973) [trans. Ross Smith]
George Steiner
Book Reviews
Book Notes
The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
David Bratman
Bibliography for 2006
