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Tolkien And Spiders, Bob Mesibov Oct 1970

Tolkien And Spiders, Bob Mesibov

Tolkien Journal

Considers both spiders and spider-imagery applied to other characters in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Published prior to Carpenter’s biography, it makes no reference to Tolkien’s childhood encounter with a spider.


Progress Report On The Variorum Tolkien, Richard C. West Oct 1970

Progress Report On The Variorum Tolkien, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

Chronicles an early effort to create a variorum edition of Tolkien’s works, starting with The Lord of the Rings, using materials at Marquette University. As a preliminary finding, the author announces that “Middle-earth” appears to be the correct capitalization and punctuation of this term.


A Dose Of Double Dactyls, Diverse Hands Oct 1970

A Dose Of Double Dactyls, Diverse Hands

Tolkien Journal

This delightful verse form was introduced to the world by Esquire magazine and to us by Mrs. Deborah Rogers in a poem published in Orcrist #2. That effort inspired a flurry of double dactyl composing on the part of members of the U. W. Tolkien Society, and such of our verses as seemed both most meritorious and most free from in-jokes are here foisted on our unwary audience. Caveat lector: we have not always kowtowed to the strict rules stipulated above; and we have sometimes indulged our deep affection for puns.


Power In The Lord Of The Rings, Alexis Levitin Oct 1970

Power In The Lord Of The Rings, Alexis Levitin

Tolkien Journal

Analyzes Power and its tendency to corruption in The Lord of the Rings, with a discussion of the weaknesses of Evil, and the function of the Ring as a temptation to Power and Pride.


Report From The West: Explotation Of The Hobbit, Bonniejean Christensen Oct 1970

Report From The West: Explotation Of The Hobbit, Bonniejean Christensen

Tolkien Journal

Reports on commercial tie-ins to Tolkien such as sales of posters and buttons, and in particular on one musical adaptation of The Hobbit. Updates the Ace publication controversy as well.


The Insurrection Of The Toolies From Twee, Joe Snow Oct 1970

The Insurrection Of The Toolies From Twee, Joe Snow

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.


Satire, Paulette Carroll Oct 1970

Satire, Paulette Carroll

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.


An Ace Mystery: Did Tolkien Write His Own Retraction?, Bonniejean Christensen Oct 1970

An Ace Mystery: Did Tolkien Write His Own Retraction?, Bonniejean Christensen

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.


A Proposal For A Doctoral Dissertation, Deborah Webster Rogers Oct 1970

A Proposal For A Doctoral Dissertation, Deborah Webster Rogers

Tolkien Journal

This is a proposal for a doctoral dissertaion in the Department of Comparative Literature of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This proposal was accepted 19 May 1970.


Introduction, Richard C. West Oct 1970

Introduction, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.


Letters To The Editor, Lloyd Alexander, Bonniejean Christensen Oct 1970

Letters To The Editor, Lloyd Alexander, Bonniejean Christensen

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.


Contemporary Medieval Authors, Richard C. West Jan 1970

Contemporary Medieval Authors, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

Discusses works of the “contemporary medieval” genre, a sub-genre of twentieth-century romance, including T.H. White’s Arthurian cycle, and more briefly, Lewis’s Narnia books and Space Trilogy and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.


The Genre Of The Lord Of The Rings, Alexis Levitin Jan 1970

The Genre Of The Lord Of The Rings, Alexis Levitin

Tolkien Journal

Attempts to define the genre of The Lord of the Rings, an “alien but very effective piece of work” that defies easy categorization. Settles on “a quest-story presented in an epic and fairy-tale medium.”


Hobbits: Common Lens For Heroic Experience, David M. Miller Jan 1970

Hobbits: Common Lens For Heroic Experience, David M. Miller

Tolkien Journal

Theorizes that works of fantasy need some sort of bridge linking them to the primary world in order to have literary depth. After discussing bridging devices in several other fantasies, notably Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, the author locates Tolkien’s bridging device in the initial utter ordinariness and realistic character growth of the hobbits, with whom the reader is led to identify from the start and therefore throughout their later encounters with the high and heroic of Middle -earth.


At The Back Of The North Wind: George Macdonald: A Centennial Appreciation, Glenn E. Sadler Jan 1970

At The Back Of The North Wind: George Macdonald: A Centennial Appreciation, Glenn E. Sadler

Tolkien Journal

A brief overview of MacDonald’s life and writing, with a particular focus on At the Back of the North Wind.


An Annotated Bibliography Of Tolkien Criticism - Supplement Two, Richard C. West Jan 1970

An Annotated Bibliography Of Tolkien Criticism - Supplement Two, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

The first part of this series appears in Orcrist #1.


Tolkien And Coleridge, Clyde S. Kilby Jan 1970

Tolkien And Coleridge, Clyde S. Kilby

Tolkien Journal

Finds similarities in both authors’ love of philology, ability to tell a spell-binding story, and the long torment of the Mariner and Frodo, as well as an essentially Catholic orientation and a regard for the numinous nature of life. (The author does not posit any influence on Tolkien by Coleridge but simply notes similarities.)


Conferences And Conventions: Past And Future / Inklings, Richard C. West Jan 1970

Conferences And Conventions: Past And Future / Inklings, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Richard C. West Jan 1970

Introduction, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.