Editor’s Introduction
Conventions and Abbreviations
Vladimir Brljak — “ The Books of Lost Tales”: Tolkien as Metafictionist
Peter K Makai — Faërian Cyberdrama: When Fantasy becomes Virtual Reality”
Michael Milburn — Coleridge’s Definition of Imagination and Tolkien’s Definition(s) of Faery
Thomas Fornet-Ponse — 'Strange and free' —On Some Aspects of the Nature of Elves and Men
Mary R Bowman — Refining the Gold: Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and the Northern Theory of Courage
Thomas Honegger — Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation in Sir Orfeo: The Medieval Foundations of Tolkienian Fantasy
Sherrylyn Branchaw — Elladan and Elrohir: The Dioscuri in The Lord of the Rings
Yoko Hemmi — Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and His Concept of Native Language: Sindarin and British-Welsh
Margaret Sinex — 'Monsterized Saracens,' Tolkien’s Haradrim, and Other Medieval 'Fantasy Products'
Kristine Larsen — Myth, Milky Way, and the Mysteries of Tolkien’s Morwinyon, Telumendil, and Anarríma
Notes and Documents
J.R.R. Tolkien [Transcribed and edited by Verlyn Flieger] - “The Story of Kullervo” and Essays on Kalevala
John Garth — “J.R.R. Tolkien and the Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Fairies”
Book Reviews
Davis Bratman — The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2007
Rebecca Epstein, Michael D.C. Drout, David Bratman - Bibliography (in English) for 2008
Notes on Contributors