Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey

Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey is a collection of twenty-one essays about J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle-earth, and the renowned Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey.
Spurred by Shippey's retirement from the Chair of Humanities at St. Louis University, the book was edited by Janet Brennan Croft, John Wm. Houghton, John D. Rateliff, Nancy Martsch, and Robin Anne Reid and published by McFarland in 2014. It is one of few books to focus partially on a Tolkien scholar directly; another being A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger (2018).
==Essays==
===I. Memoirs===
*John R. Holmes, "Counseling the Scippigræd: How T.A. Shippey Taught Us to Read"
*David Bratman, "Shippey: The Philologist and the Critics"
*E.L. Risden, "Tom Shippey, and a Few New Leaves on Some Old Roots and Branches"
*Todd Jensen, "A Talk by Tom Shippey"
*Jessica Yates, "Tom Shippey and the Tolkien Society"
*John Wm. Houghton, "Shippey Amongst the Mercians"
===II. Answering Questions===
*Nancy Martsch, "The 'Lady with the Simple Gown and White Arms' orPossible Influences of 19th and Early 20th Century Book Illustrations on Tolkien's Work"
*Robert T. Tally, Jr., "Places Where the Stars Are Strange: Fantasy and Utopia in Tolkien's ­Middle-earth"
*E.L. Risden, "Middle-earth and the Waste Land: Greenwood, Apocalypse, and ­Post-War Resolution"
*Verlyn Flieger, "The Jewels, the Stone, the Ring, and the Making of Meaning"
*Leslie Stratyner, "Tolkien and Apposition"
===III. Philological Inquiries===
*John R. Holmes, "Keeping Counsel: Advice in Tolkien's Fiction"
*Jason Fisher, "Tolkien's Wraiths, Rings and Dragons: An Exercise in Literary Linguistics"
*B.S.W. Barootes, "'He chanted a song of wizardry': Words with Power in Middle-earth"
====IV. The True Tradition====
*John D. Rateliff, "Inside Literature: Tolkien's Explorations of Medieval Genres"
*Yvette Kisor, "'Poor Sméagol': Gollum as Exile in The Lord of the Rings"
*John B. Marino, "The Presence of the Past in The Lord of the Rings"
*Marjorie Burns, "Night-wolves, ­Half-trolls and the Dead Who Won't Stay Down"
====V. Perspectives from Outside the Cycle====
*David L. Dettman, "Vainamoinen in ­Middle-earth: The Pervasive Presence of the Kalevala in the Bombadil Chapters of The Lord of the Rings"
*Richard C. West, "'Lack of Counsel Not of Courage': J.R.R. Tolkien's Critique of the Heroic Ethos in The Children of Húrin"
*Kristine Larsen, "'Alone Between the Dark and Light': "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" and Lessons from the Later Legendarium"
==External links==
*Official page
*Google Books page
*Tolkien in the New Century at Barnes & Noble
*Tolkien in the New Century at Amazon.com
== See also ==
* The Road to Middle-earth
* J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
* The Lord of the Rings
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