Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review (Volume II, 2005)

Project MUSE......Page 1
Editors’ Introduction......Page 2
Conventions and Abbreviations......Page 4
01 Richard C. West – “And She Named Her Own Name”: Being True
to One’s Word in Tolkien’s Middle-earth......Page 8
02 Douglas A. Anderson – Richard C. West: A Checklist......Page 18
03 Miryam Librán-Moreno – The Sons of Denethor and the Sons of Telamon......Page 22
04 Judy Ann Ford – The White City: The Lord of the Rings as an Early
Medieval Myth of the Restoration of the Roman Empire......Page 60
05 Elizabeth Massa Hoiem – World Creation as Colonization: British Imperialism in “Aldarion and Erendis”......Page 82
06 Margaret Sinex – “Tricksy Lights”: Literary and Folkloric Elements in Tolkien’s Passage of the Dead Marshes......Page 100
07 Patchen Mortimer – Tolkien and Modernism......Page 120
08 John Wm. Houghton and Neal K. Keesee – Tolkien, King Alfred and Boethius: Platonist Views of Evil in The Lord of the Rings......Page 138
09 Kristine Larsen – A Definitive Identification of Tolkien’s “Borgil”:
An Astronomical and Literary Approach......Page 168
10 Linda Greenwood – Love: “The Gift of Death”......Page 178
11 Michael J. Brisbois – Tolkien’s Imaginary Nature: An Analysis of the Structure of Middle-earth......Page 204
Obituary (Humphrey Carpenter)......Page 224
12 Beth Russell – The Birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien......Page 232
13 Douglas A. Anderson – J. R. R. Tolkien and W. Rhys Roberts’s “Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh”......Page 237
14 Sandra Ballif Straubhaar – Gilraen’s Linnod: Function, Genre, Prototypes......Page 242
15 Dale Nelson – Little Nell and Frodo the Halfling......Page 252
16 John Garth......Page 256
17 Joe R. Christopher......Page 260
18 Brad Eden......Page 263
19 Gergely Nagy......Page 265
20 Charles E. Noad......Page 268
21 Jane Chance......Page 269
22 Mike Foster......Page 273
23 Brian Rosebury......Page 275
24 Jane Chance......Page 278
25 Alexandra Bolintineanu......Page 280
26 Shaun F.D. Hughes......Page 284
27 Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley......Page 292
Addenda and Corrigenda to the 2001–2002 Tolkien Studies Bibliography......Page 295
The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2001–2002......Page 296
Bibliography (in English) for 2003......Page 324
Notes on Contributors......Page 330