Tolkien in the New Century
Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey is a Festschrift for Tom Shippey, published in 2014 on the occasion of his retirement from the Walter J. Ong, S.J., Endowed Chair in Humanities at St. Louis University in Missouri.
Contents
- Preface 1
- Introduction by John Wm. Houghton 3
- Abbreviations and Other Conventions 7
- I. Memoirs
- — "Counseling the Scippigræd: How T.A. Shippey Taught Us to Read" (John R. Holmes) 11
- — "Shippey: The Philologist and the Critics" (David Bratman) 14
- — "Tom Shippey, and a Few New Leaves on Some Old Roots and Branches" (E.L. Risden) 16
- — "A Talk by Tom Shippey" (Todd Jensen) 20
- — "Tom Shippey and the Tolkien Society" (Jessica Yates) 22
- — "Shippey Amongst the Mercians" (John Wm. Houghton) 25
- II. Answering Questions
- — "The 'Lady with the Simple Gown and White Arms' or Possible Influences of 19th and Early 20th Century Book Illustrations on Tolkien's Work (Nancy Martsch) 29
- — "Places Where the Stars Are Strange: Fantasy and Utopia in Tolkien's Middle-earth" (Robert T. Tally, Jr.) 41
- — "Middle-earth and the Waste Land: Greenwood, Apocalypse, and Post-War Resolution" (E.L. Risden) 57
- — "The Jewels, the Stone, the Ring, and the Making of Meaning" (Verlyn Flieger) 65
- — "Tolkien and Apposition" (Leslie Stratyner) 78
- III. "Philological Inquiries"
- — "Keeping Counsel: Advice in Tolkien's Fiction" (John R. Holmes) 87
- — "Tolkien's Wraiths, Rings and Dragons: An Exercise in Literary Linguistics" (Jason Fisher) 97
- — "'He chanted a song of wizardry': Words with Power in Middle-earth" (B.S.W. Barootes) 115
- IV. "The True Tradition"
- — "Inside Literature: Tolkien's Explorations of Medieval Genres" (John D. Rateliff) 133
- — "'Poor Sméagol': Gollum as Exile in The Lord of the Rings" (Yvette Kisor) 153
- — "The Presence of the Past in The Lord of the Rings" (John B. Marino) 169
- — "Night-wolves, Half-trolls and the Dead Who Won't Stay Down" (Marjorie Burns) 182
- V. Perspectives from Outside the Cycle
- — "Vainamoinen in Middle-earth: The Pervasive Presence of the Kalevala in the Bombadil Chapters of The Lord of the Rings" (David L. Dettman) 197
- — "'Lack of Counsel Not of Courage': J.R.R. Tolkien's Critique of the Heroic Ethos in The Children of Húrin" (Richard C. West) 216
- — "'Alone Between the Dark and Light': "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" and Lessons from the Later Legendarium" (Kristine Larsen) 221
- Appendix: Recent Work—Shippey on Tolkien Since 2004 235
- About the Contributors 237
- Extended Acknowledgments 241
- Index 247
Referencias
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