The Return of the Ring: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012

Volume 1

• "Foreword" – Shaun Gunner
• "Introduction" – Lynn Forest-Hill

Biography

• "Tolkien’s Birmingham" by Robert S. Blackham
• "J.R.R. Tolkien's 'second father' Fr. Francis Morgan and other non-canonical influences" by José Manuel Ferrández Bru
• "Tolkien's Oxford" by Robert S. Blackham
• "J.R.R. Tolkien and the origins of the Inklings" by Colin Duriez

War and its Effects

• "Robert Quilter Gilson, T.C.B.S.: A brief life in letters" by John Garth
• "Tolkien: the War Years" by Robert S. Blackham
• "Sauron Revealed" by LeiLani Hinds
• "Clean Earth to Till: A Tolkienian Vision of War" by Anna E. Thayer (née Slack)
• "The Importance of Home in the Middle-earth Legendarium" by Sara Brown

Philosophy and Ethics

• "Tolkien versus the history of philosophy” – Franco Manni
• "Tolkien’s Boethius, Alfred's Boethius" by Gerard Hynes
• "Teaching Leadership and Ethics through Tolkien" by Laura Miller-Purrenhage

Religion and its Discontents

• "Tolkien – Pagan or Christian? A proposal for a 'new' synthetic approach" by Claudio A. Testi
• "A Latter-day Saint reading of Tolkien" by James D. Holt
• "Tolkien's Magic" by Ronald Hutton

The Mythic Dimension

• "Cyclic cataclysms, Semitic stereotypes and religious reforms: a classicist's Númenor" by Pamina Fernández Camacho
• "From 2012 AD to Atlantis and Back Again – Tolkien's Circular Journey in Time" by Xavier de la Huerga
• "The Notion Club Papers: A Summary" by David Doughan
• "Myth-Making: How J.R.R. Tolkien Adapted Mythopoeia from Old English" by Zachary A. Rhone
• "J.R.R. Tolkien's Mythopoeia and Familiarisation of Myth: Hobbits as Mediators of Myth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings" by Jyrki Korpua
• "White riders and new world orders: Nature and technology in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" by Larissa Budde

Volume 2

• "Introduction" by Lynn Forest-Hill

Medievalism

• "Tolkienesque Transformations: Post-Celticism and Possessiveness in 'The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun'" by Yoko Hemmi
• "Tolkien's Devices: The Heraldry of Middle-earth" by Jamie McGregor
• "Tolkien and the Gothic" by Nick Groom
• "Frodo and Faramir: Mirrors of Chivalry" by Constance G.J. Wagner

Fantasy

• "An Old Light Rekindled: Tolkien's Influence on Fantasy" by Anna E. Thayer (née Slack)
• "'In the memory of old wives': Old Tales and Fairy-stories in Middle-earth" by Troels Forchhammer

Diversity

• "Tolkien and Nonsense" by Maureen F. Mann
• "Stars Above a Dark Tor: Tolkien and Romanticism" by Anna E. Thayer (née Slack)
• "The Ainulindale and Tolkien's Approach to Modernity" by Reuven Naveh
• "Tolkien, the Russians and Industrialisation" by Jim Clarke
• "Legal bother: Law and related matters in The Hobbit" by Murray Smith
• "Tolkien's Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions" by Janet Brennan Croft
• "Tolkien's women of Middle-earth" by Chris Barclay
• "Colours in Tolkien" by Christopher Kreuzer
• "Thirty Years of Tolkien Fandom" by Nancy Martsch

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