Anna Smol usefully rounds up the papers set to be presented Tolkien at Kalamazoo 2019. Of interest to me, re: my forthcoming book, and being noted here for my future reference (I’ll see if I can find open access versions in nine months or so) are…

* Two on time…

“Of Niggle and Ringwraiths: Tolkien on Time and Eternity as the Deepest Stratum of His Work”. Robert Dobie.

“The Eschatological Catholic: J. R. R. Tolkien and a Multi-Modal Temporality”. Stephen Yandell.

* Three on stars…

“Who maketh Morwinyon, and Menelmacar, and Remmirath, and the inner parts of the south (where the stars are strange): Tolkien’s Astronomical Choices and the Books of Job and Amos.” Kristine Larsen.

“‘It Lies Behind the Stars’: Situating Tolkien’s Work within the Aesthetics of Medieval Cosmology”. Connie Tate.

“Cynewulf, Copernicus, and Conjunctions: The Problem of Cytherean Motions in Tolkien’s Medieval Cosmology”. Kristine Larsen.

* And one of personal hobbit-ish interest…

Queer Hobbits: Language for the Strange, the Odd, and the Peculiar in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Yvette Kisor.