A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger

A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger is a collection of essays in honor of eminent Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger. It was compiled by John D. Rateliff and published in January, 2018. Essays either concern Flieger directly or a topic of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium and peripheral works.
Rateliff had overseen a similar work in 2014, Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey.
==Essays==
===Tolkienian Studies===
*Amy Amendt-Raduege, "A Seed of Courage: Merry, Pippin, and the Ordinary Hero"
*David Bratman, "Smith of Wootton Major and Genre Fantasy"
*Marjorie Burns, "Three Stories Holding Hands: The Wind in the Willows, Huntingtower, and The Hobbit"
*Jason Fisher, "J.R.R. Tolkien: The Foolhardy Philologist"
*Andrew Higgins, "Mythology is Language and Language is Mythology: How Verlyn Flieger's Favorite ‘Bumper-sticker’ Works in Tolkien's Legendarium"
*Thomas Hillman, Simon Cook, Jeremiah Burns, Richard Rohlin, and Oliver Stegen, "Do Eldar Dream of Immortal Sheep?: Dreams, Memory, and Enchantment at the End of the Third Age"
*John R. Holmes, "'A Green Great Dragon' and J.R.R. Tolkien’s 'Native Language'"
*Thomas Honegger, "Splintered Heroes: Heroic Variety and its Function in The Lord of the Rings"
*Kristine Larsen, "Lessons of Myth, Mortality, & the Machine in the Dream State Space-Time Travel Tales of J.R.R. Tolkien and Olaf Stapledon"
*John D. Rateliff, "'To Recall Forgotten Gods from their Twilight': J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Name Nodens'"
*Taum Santoski, "A History of the Acquisition: Marquette and the Tolkien Manuscripts"
*Anna Smol, "Seers and Singers: Tolkien’s Typology of Sub-creators"
*Vivien Stocker, "Tolkien’s Story of Kullervo: A Lost Link between Kirby's Kalevala and Tolkien’s Legendarium"
*Sandra Ballif Staubhaar, "The Rare and Elusive “Green, Great Dragon”"
*Kris Swank, "A Recognizable Irish Strain in Tolkien's Work"
*Richard C. West, "Canute and Beorhtnoth"
===Flieger's Fictions===
*Peter Grybauskas, "'Green Hill Country': A Scholar’s Tale"
*Paul Edmund Thomas, "Words Made Flesh in Avilion"
*Dennis Wilson Wise, "Identity, Time, and Faerie in Pig Tale and The Inn at Corbies' Caaw: An Unexpected Convergence of Realms"
=== Three Personal Tributes ===
*Susan Yager, "A Teacher's Teacher: Verlyn Flieger"
*Bradford Lee Eden, "Music, Time, and Light in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Verlyn Flieger: A Reflection"
*Kristine Larsen, "'Whose Myth Is It?': Tolkien Studies as Interdisciplinary Studies"
==External links==
*Official page
*Amazon.com
*Goodreads.com
*Review by Hamish Williams for Edinburgh University Press
== See also ==
* The Story of Kullervo
* Splintered Light
* The Hobbit
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