Yet more interesting new papers on Tolkien, freely online…

“Tolkien, Manuscripts, and Dialects”.

“Where the Shadows Lie: Tolkien’s Medieval View of Free Will, Temptation, and Evil”.

“Earendel and the Dragon” (compares the three battles against Melkor “to depictions of astronomical events in … medieval annals”).

“Tolkien Beyond the Myth” (Law & Liberty review of the new book Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages).

“Journey Back Again: Reasons to Revisit Middle-earth” (Mythlore book review, summer 2021).

“The ancestors of J.R.R. Tolkien” (abstract only, paper withdrawn… “his grandfather John Benjamin (1807-96) had a thriving music business at 70 and 87 New Street”, Birmingham).

“Retracing Classical Motifs: Classical Reception of Greek Epic Cycle in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion” (substantial abstract and bibliography only) (if you’re not a member of Academia.edu you can only get the public PDF download via a link from a Google Scholar search).

“Tolkien : essai d’une lecture philosophique” (in French, appears to argue that Tolkien’s major creations can be considered a legitimate “work of philosophy” even though he was not a trained philosopher).