Editors: Richard C. West and James B. Robinson
Art Editor: Ivor A. Rogers

First printing in plain green cover. The 4th printing (1968) had cover illustrations by Laura Haglund: the front cover was called "Niggle -- by Leaf" while the back cover was untitled but depicted three hobbits.

• "Introduction" (editorial) (pp. i-iii)
• "Return of the King" (poem) -- Janet Boatner (p. 1)
• "Tolkien in the Letters of C. S. Lewis" -- Richard C. West (pp. 2-16)
• "The Wizard and History: Saruman's Vision of a New Order" -- James Robinson (pp. 17-23)
• "Music To Read Tolkien By: Tunes for Two Poems" -- Deborah Webster (p. 24) [musical settings for "The Elves Welcome the 14 to Rivendell" and "Lay of Beren and Luthien"]
• "The Interlace and Professor Tolkien: Medieval Narrative Technique in The Lord of the Rings" -- R. C. West (pp. 26-47) [a revised version of this essay was later published in A Tolkien Compass, ed. Jared Lobdell]
• "The Picnic" (parody) -- Paulette Carroll (p. 50)
• "An Annotated Bibliography of Tolkien Criticism" -- Richard West (pp. 51-90)