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Publications

The Tolkien Society publishes the following periodicals:

• Amon Hen (ISSN 0306-8781) - The bi-monthly bulletin of the Tolkien Society.
• Mallorn (ISSN 0308-6674) - The annual Journal of the Tolkien Society.

Details on the availability and cost of Back Issues of Amon Hen and Mallorn can be found here.

The Tolkien Society also sponsors a series of publications through the Peter Roe Memorial Fund. Several of which are mentioned below.

The following volumes have been published by the Tolkien Society:

• Proceedings of the Tolkien Centenary Conference 1992.

  (ISBN 0-905520-06-8, US edition published by The Mythopoeic Society ISBN 1-887726-04-7). Edited by Patricia Reynolds and Glenn H. GoodKnight.

  Contains 61 papers collected into the following sections:

  • Recollection and Remembrances
  • Tolkien Studies
  • Sources and Influences
  • Middle-earth Studies
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • The Inklings
  • The Silmarillion
  • Flights of Fancy
  • Linguistics and Lexicography
  • Response and Reaction

  Full details of Proceedings... including cost and availability, can be found here.

• Travel and Communication in Tolkien's Worlds

  Proceedings of the 10th Tolkien Society Seminar, Leicester, 1995. ISBN 0-905520-10-6. Published under the auspices of the Peter Roe Memorial Fund, 1996. Edited by Richard Crawshaw. Contains the following papers:

  • "The Palantíri - a study", by Alex Lewis
  • "The Road Goes Ever On: Tolkien's use of the journey motive in constructing The Lord of the Rings", by John Ellison
  • "Who Mends the Roads: Superstructures without Substructures", by Richard Allen
  • "First Catch Your Oliphaunt: A rambling look at the natural and unnatural history of elephants", by Ruth Lacon
  • "The Geography of the Shire: Reference Points for a study of communication", by Ian Smalley
  • "The History and Practice of Communications in the Shire", by Tom Marringer
• The First and Second Ages

  Proceedings of the 5th Tolkien Society Workshop, Milton Keynes, 1990. ISBN 0-905520-04-1. Published under the auspices of the Peter Roe Memorial Fund, 1992. Edited by Trevor Reynolds. Contains the following papers:

  • "From Fëanor to Doctor Faustus: A "creator" destroys himself", by John Ellison
  • "Before the Moon, Before the Sun: The Big Time in Tolkien's Mythology", by Denis Bridoux
  • "Purity and Danger in Middle-earth", by Chris Seeman
  • ""Good People" - Elves of the First Age", by Alex Lewis
• Leaves from the Tree - J.R.R. Tolkien's Shorter Fiction

  Proceedings of the 4th Tolkien Society Workshop, Beverly, 1989. ISBN 0-905520-03-3. Published under the auspices of the Peter Roe Memorial Fund, 1991. Edited by Trevor Reynolds. Contains the following papers:

  • "Tolkien and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth", by Tom Shippey
  • "In Search of the Bounce: Tolkien seen through Smith", by David Doughan
  • "The why, and the how: Reflections on Leaf by Niggle", by John Ellison
  • "The Lost Heart of the Little Kingdom", by Alex Lewis
  • "Early Versions of Farmer Giles of Ham", by John Rateliff
  • "Dragons from Andrew Lang's Retelling of Sigurd to Tolkien's Chrysophylax", by Christina Scull
  • "The Source of The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun", by Jessica Yates
  • "Tom Bombadil and The Lord of the Rings", by Christina Scull
  • "The Natures of Tom Bombadil - A Summary", by Charles Noad
  • "The Real Tom Bombadil", by Patricia Reynolds.
• Some Light on Middle-earth, by Edward Crawford

  ISBN 0-905520-02-5. Published under the auspices of the Peter Roe Memorial Fund, 1995. The use of scientific techniques of social analysis to reveal the nature of the Free Peoples. Chapters on:

  • A Political Economy of The Shire
  • The Modes of Production in the Southern Kingdoms of Middle-earth
  • Logistics in the War of the Ring.
  • Appendices on Feudal Incidents and Labour Services
  • The Population Dynamics of The Shire
  • Military Technology in the Third Age
  • Speed
  • A Note on Mumaks.
• Tolkien and Romanticism

  Proceedings of the Cambridge Tolkien Workshop 1988. Edited by I.R. Morus, M.J.L. Percival and C.S. Rosenthal. Contains the following papers:

  • "Servant of the Secret Fire", by Paul Bibire
  • "Tolkien and the Development of Romance", by Alex Lewis
  • "Tolkien, Wagner, and the End of the Romantic Age", by John Ellison
  • "Bow-Wow or Pooh-Pooh: Natural Models of Language from Plato to Tolkien", by Iwan Rhys Morus
  • "Elf-Spear, The Wand of Youth, and the Starlight Express", by David Doughan
  • "The History of Middle-earth Volume 24"

These publications, and a wide variety of other Tolkien-related publications, including many unusual or hard-to-obtain volumes, are available from Tolkien Society Trading Ltd. Full details are available on the Sales Page.

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