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.<\/p>\n
Tolkien’s wartime and immediate post-war experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n * “Tolkien and the Zeppelins”<\/a>… “his posting to Holderness, in April 1917, placed him in the alarms and excursions of another front line.”<\/p>\n * “Tolkien’s Work on the Oxford English Dictionary”<\/a>. New evidence… “suggests that Tolkien was carrying out work for the OED earlier than previously believed.” By Christmas 1918.<\/p>\n Lord of the Rings:<\/strong><\/p>\n * “Tolkien\u2019s Tom Bombadil: An Enigma \u201c(Intentionally)\u201d”<\/a>.<\/p>\n * “Tolkien’s Lost Knights”<\/a>. (On how Tolkien side-stepped the worn-out ‘fantasy knights’ genre and offered more appealing heroes).<\/p>\n * “Tolkien’s Thalassocracy and Ancient Greek Seafaring People: Minoans, Phaeacians, Atlantans, and N\u00famen\u00f3reans”<\/a>. (Tolkien Studies, not free)<\/p>\n Poetry and artistry:<\/strong><\/p>\n * “”Doworst” by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Disappeared Poem”<\/a>. (Early 1930s).<\/p>\n * “The Living Tradition of Medieval Scripts in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Calligraphy”<\/a>. (On scribal hands that may have inspired his own style).<\/p>\n Book reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n * Garth’s “The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth”<\/a>.<\/p>\n * “A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger”<\/a> (Journal of Tolkien Research).<\/p>\n * “A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger”<\/a>. (Tolkien Studies, not free)<\/p>\n * “Music in Tolkien’s Work and Beyond”<\/a>. (Mythlore)<\/p>\n * “Music in Tolkien’s Work and Beyond”<\/a>. (Journal of Inklings Studies)<\/p>\n * “Tolkien and the Classics”<\/a>.<\/p>\n * “Pagan Saints in Middle-earth”<\/a>.<\/p>\n * “Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a>.<\/p>\n * “Something Has Gone Crack”: New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War”<\/a>. (Journal of Inklings Studies).<\/p>\n * “Tolkien\u2019s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth”<\/a>.<\/p>\n * “Creation and Beauty in Tolkien’s Catholic Vision: A Study in the Influence of Neoplatonism”<\/a>.<\/p>\n Surveys and bibliographies:<\/strong><\/p>\n * “The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2017”<\/a>. (Tolkien Studies 2020, not free)<\/p>\n