The editors of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review have announced the expected contents of volume 14.

It is due to be published later this year in softcover and on Project MUSE.

Articles

• H.L. Spencer, “The Mystical Philosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Sir Israel Gollancz: Monsters and Critics”
• Christopher Gilson, “His Breath Was Taken Away: Tolkien, Barfield, and Elvish Diction”
• Kathy Cawsey, “Could Gollum Be Singing a Sonnet? The Poetic Project of The Lord of the Rings“
• Eleanor R. Simpson, “The Evolution of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Portrayal of Nature: Foreshadowing Anti-speciesism”
• Leonard Neidorf, “J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur: Creation from Literary Criticism”
• Jeffrey J. MacLeod and Anna Smol, “Visualizing the Word: Tolkien as Artist and Writer”

Notes and documents

• Paul Tankard, “‘Akin to my own inspiration’: Mary Fairburn and the Art of Middle-earth”
• J. Silk, “A Note on the Sindarin Translation of the Name Daisy”
• Giovanni Costabile, “Stolen Pears, Unripe Apples: The Misuse of Fruits as a Symbol of Original Sin in Tolkien’s The New Shadow and Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions“

Book reviews

• A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins, reviewed by Arden R. Smith
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger; and The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Aleksandar Mikić with the assistance of Elizabeth Currie, reviewed by Dimitra Fimi
• The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 1; Quenya Verb Structure, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson and Arden R. Smith, reviewed by Nelson Goering
• Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works, edited by Leslie A. Donovan, reviewed by Diana Pavlac Glyer
• Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann, reviewed by David Bratman

Other matter

• David Bratman, Edith L. Crowe, Jason Fisher, John Wm. Houghton, John Magoun, Robin Anne Reid, “The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2014”
• David Bratman, “Bibliography (In English) for 2015”

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