Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
Ed. Patricia Reynolds and Glen H. GoodKnight
Paperback £20 Hardback £50 (Discount to members)
The Tolkien Society and The Mythopoeic Press, 1995
460 pages (A4) including references and indexThe 'Proceedings' is the largest and most wide-ranging volumes of commentary on The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's other works ever published, drawing as it does on a the most substantial gathering of scholars, colleagues, family friends, students and long-time Tolkien readers assembled to date.
Essays, talks and papers range from George Sayer and Rayner Unwin on their recollections of Tolkien; Verlyn Flieger on Tolkien's Experiment with Time; Charles E Noad on Blakean Resonances on Tolkien, Tom Shippey on Tolkien as a Post-War Writer, Normal Talbot on Where do Elves go to? Tolkien and a Fantasy Tradition (one of the longest essays on elvish ecology in literature I have ever seen); Jane Chance on Power and Knowledge in Tolkien; Christopher Gilson and Patrick Wynne on The Growth of Grammar in the Elven Tongues; Bruce Mitchell on JRR Tolkien and Old English Studies; Edith L. Crowe on Power in Arda; Sources, Uses and Misuses; Anders Stenström on A Mythology? For England? and Lisa Hopkins on Female Authority Figures in the Works of Tolkien, CS Lewis and Charles Williams, and many, many more, including some essays in a lighter vein such as Angela Surtees and Steve Gardner on The Mechanics of Dragons: An Introduction to the Study of their 'Ologies, and Jenny Coombs and Marc Read on A Physics of Middle-earth. The volume is available from The Tolkien Society in Europe and The Mythopoeic Society in the Americas, or whichever one is nearest to you and best suits your currency. You get a lot of commentary for round about £20 sterling or the equivalent (plus postage). The hard-bound version is recommended for libraries and other heavy users.
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