Editors’ Introduction
Conventions and Abbreviations
Ross Smith - Fitting Sense to Sound: Linguistic Aesthetics and Phonosemantics in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien
Maria Prozesky - The Text Tale of Frodo the Nine-fingered: Residual Oral Patterning in The Lord of the Rings
Amy M. Amendt-Raduege - Dream Visions in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Gergely Nagy - The ‘Lost’ Subject of Middle-earth: The Constitution of the Subject in the Figure of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings
Martin Simonson - Three is Company: Novel, Fairy Tale, and Romance on the Journey through the Shire
Richard W. Fehrenbacher - Beowulf as Fairy-story: Enchanting the Elegiac in The Two Towers
James Obertino - Barbarians and Imperialism in Tacitus and The Lord of the Rings
Notes and Documents
Verlyn Flieger - Karen Wynn Fonstad
Karen Wynn Fonstad - Writing 'TO' the Map
Douglas A. Anderson - R. W. Chambers and The Hobbit
Michael D. C. Drout - A Spliced Old English Quotation in “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
James I. McNelis III - “The tree took me up from the ground and carried me off”: A Source for Tolkien's Ents in Ludvig Holberg's Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground
Douglas A. Anderson - Book Reviews
David Bratman - The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies
Marcel R. Bülles, Michael D. C. Drout, Rebecca Epstein - Bibliography for 2004
Notes on Contributors