The Festival in the Shire Journal just released their second issue online. It is edited by Colin Duriez, and has a lot of interesting articles. While the Journal is associated with The Festival in the Shire, an event taking place next year somewhere in Wales, the Journal itself has a broad sampling of articles on Tolkien's works and interviews with scholars and artists.

Here is the table of contents for Issue #2:
• "Goblin Feet", a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien - Pieter Collier (Beren)
• The Tolkien Society: a home for 'those who would wander with friends in Middle-earth' (A Forty Year Hobbit) - Ian Collier
• Middle-earth as Muse - Jef Murray
• Tolkien at work: A helping hand on The Silmarillion - Clyde S. Kilby
• How to read Tolkien - Corey Olsen
• Hunting Peter Jackson - A review of The Hunt for Gollum - Chad Chisholm
• "Here be dragons": Festival in the Shire interviews John Howe
• "Discovering" rather than "inventing": An interview with Ted Nasmith
• The Shippey Interview - Corey Olsen
• The artist as storyteller: Interview with Rodney Matthews
• Casting Tolkien’s spell: The Journal interviews Tolkien artist Michael Hague

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