The Return Of The Ring: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012

The Return Of The Ring Volume II: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012 contains papers presented at the English Tolkien Society's The Return of the Ring conference in 2012, at which many Tolkien scholars and common enthusiasts convened for five days at Loughborough University, England. It was published in two volumes by Luna Press Publishing in June 2016.
As with other proceedings publications, a wide range of topics are covered concerning J.R.R. Tolkien's life and works of and outside the legendarium.
==Volume I contents==
===Biography===
*Bob Blackham, "Tolkien’s Birmingham"
*José Manuel Ferrández Bru, "J.R.R. Tolkien's 'second father' Fr. Francis Morgan and other non-canonical influences"
*Bob Blackham, "Tolkien's Oxford"
*Colin Duriez, "J.R.R. Tolkien and the origins of the Inklings"
===War and its Effects===
*John Garth, "Robert Quilter Gilson, T.C.B.S.: A brief life in letters"
*Bob Blackham, "Tolkien: the War Years"
*LeiLani Hinds, "Sauron Revealed"
*Anna E. Thayer, "Clean Earth to Till: A Tolkienian Vision of War"
*Sara Brown, "The Importance of Home in the Middle-earth Legendarium"
===Philosophy and Ethics===
*Franco Manni, "Tolkien versus the history of philosophy”
*Gerard Hynes, "Tolkien’s Boethius, Alfred's Boethius"
*Laura Miller-Purrenhage, "Teaching Leadership and Ethics through Tolkien"
===Religion and its Discontents===
*Claudio A. Testi, "Tolkien – Pagan or Christian? A proposal for a 'new' synthetic approach"
*James D. Holt, "A Latter-day Saint reading of Tolkien"
*Ronald Hutton, "Tolkien's Magic"
===The Mythic Dimension===
*Pamina Fernández Camacho, "Cyclic cataclysms, Semitic stereotypes and religious reforms: a classicist's Númenor"
*Xavier de la Huerga, "From 2012 AD to Atlantis and Back Again – Tolkien's Circular Journey in Time"
*David Doughan, "The Notion Club Papers: A Summary"
*Zachary A. Rhone, "Myth-Making: How J.R.R. Tolkien Adapted Mythopoeia from Old English"
*Jyrki Korpua, "J.R.R. Tolkien's Mythopoeia and Familiarisation of Myth: Hobbits as Mediators of Myth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"
*Larissa Budde, "White riders and new world orders: Nature and technology in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
==Volume 2 contents==
===Medievalism===
*Yoko Hemmi, "Tolkienesque Transformations: Post-Celticism and Possessiveness in The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun"
*Jamie McGregor, "Tolkien's Devices: The Heraldry of Middle-earth"
*Nick Groom, "Tolkien and the Gothic"
*Constance G. J. Wagner, "Frodo and Faramir: Mirrors of Chivalry"
===Fantasy===
*Anna E. Thayer, "An Old Light Rekindled: Tolkien's Influence on Fantasy"
*Troels Forchhammer, "'In the memory of old wives': Old Tales and Fairy-stories in Middle-earth"
===Diversity===
*Maureen F. Mann, "Tolkien and Nonsense"
*Anna E. Thayer, "Stars Above a Dark Tor: Tolkien and Romanticism"
*Reuven Naveh, "The Ainulindale and Tolkien's Approach to Modernity"
*Jim Clarke, "Tolkien, the Russians and Industrialisation"
*Murray Smith, "Legal bother: Law and related matters in The Hobbit"
*Janet Brennan Croft, "Tolkien's Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions"
*Chris Barclay, "Tolkien's women of Middle-earth"
*Christopher Kreuzer, "Colours in Tolkien"
*Nancy Martsch, "Thirty Years of Tolkien Fandom"
==External links==
*Official page
*Barnes & Noble
*Tolkien Collector's Guide page (Volume 2)
*Volume 1 and Volume 2 at Amazon.com
==See also==
*The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
*Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
*A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien
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