It’s that time of year again. Recent Tolkien scholarship of interest, noted and downloaded for my reading as a 400-page combined “mega-tolk.pdf”. All free and public unless noted.

Tolkien’s wartime and immediate post-war experience:

* “Tolkien and the Zeppelins”… “his posting to Holderness, in April 1917, placed him in the alarms and excursions of another front line.”

* “Tolkien’s Work on the Oxford English Dictionary”. New evidence… “suggests that Tolkien was carrying out work for the OED earlier than previously believed.” By Christmas 1918.

Lord of the Rings:

* “Tolkien’s Tom Bombadil: An Enigma “(Intentionally)””.

* “Tolkien’s Lost Knights”. (On how Tolkien side-stepped the worn-out ‘fantasy knights’ genre and offered more appealing heroes).

* “Tolkien’s Thalassocracy and Ancient Greek Seafaring People: Minoans, Phaeacians, Atlantans, and Númenóreans”. (Tolkien Studies, not free)

Poetry and artistry:

* “”Doworst” by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Disappeared Poem”. (Early 1930s).

* “The Living Tradition of Medieval Scripts in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Calligraphy”. (On scribal hands that may have inspired his own style).

Book reviews:

* Garth’s “The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth”.

* “A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger” (Journal of Tolkien Research).

* “A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger”. (Tolkien Studies, not free)

* “Music in Tolkien’s Work and Beyond”. (Mythlore)

* “Music in Tolkien’s Work and Beyond”. (Journal of Inklings Studies)

* “Tolkien and the Classics”.

* “Pagan Saints in Middle-earth”.

* “Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien”.

* “Something Has Gone Crack”: New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War”. (Journal of Inklings Studies).

* “Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth”.

* “Creation and Beauty in Tolkien’s Catholic Vision: A Study in the Influence of Neoplatonism”.

Surveys and bibliographies:

* “The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2017”. (Tolkien Studies 2020, not free)

* Tolkien Bibliography (in English) for 2018. (Tolkien Studies 2020, not free)