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Table of Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Conventions and Abbreviations
Tolkien’s Work: Is it Christian or Pagan? A Proposal for a “Synthetic” Approach / Claudio A. Testi
Vague or Vivid? Descriptions in The Lord of the Rings / Nils Ivar Agøy
No Triumph without Loss: Problems of Intercultural Marriage in Tolkien’s Works / Hope Rogers
My Most Precious Riddle: Eggs and Rings Revisited / Thomas Honegger
Tolkien’s Japonisme: Prints, Dragons, and a Great Wave / Michael Organ
“Jewish” Dwarves: Tolkien and Anti-Semitic Stereotyping / Renée Vink
“The Web of Story”: Structuralism in Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories” / Derek Shank
Tolkien and Bakhtin on Authorship, Literary Freedom, and Alterity / Benjamin Saxton
Tom Bombadil’s Last Song: Tolkien’s “Once Upon A Time” / Kris Swank
Book Reviews / Compiled by David Bratman
The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies / Merlin DeTardo
Bibliography (in English) for 2011 / Compiled by Rebecca Epstein, David Bratman, and Merlin DeTard
Notes on Contributors
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