The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder

The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder, produced by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, is a book celebrating Tolkien scholar Richard E. Blackwelder in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings' release. The most prominent Tolkien scholars during the 2000s are featured.
==Essays==
*Charles B. Elston, "Richard E. Blackwelder: Scholar, Collector, Benefactor, and Friend"
*Arne Zettersten, "The AB Language Lives"
*Tom Shippey, "History in Words: Tolkien's Ruling Passion"
*John Garth, "Frodo and the Great War"
*Paul Edmund Thomas, "Towards Quite Unforeseen Goals"
*John D. Rateliff, "'And All the Days of Her Life Are Forgotten': The Lord of the Rings as Mythic Prehistory"
*Christina Scull, "What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?: Planning, Inspiration, and The Lord of the Rings"
*David Bratman, "The Artistry of Omissions and Revisions in The Lord of the Rings"
*Marjorie Burns, "King and Hobbit: The Exalted and Lowly in Tolkien's Created Worlds"
*Jane Chance, "Subversive Fantasists: Tolkien on Class Difference"
*Sumner Gary Hunnewell, "Naysayers in the Works of Tolkien"
*Michael D. C. Drout, "The Rhetorical Evolution of Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"
*Matt Fisher, "Working at the Crossroads: Tolkien, St. Augustine, and the Beowulf-poet"
*Carl F. Hostetter, "Elvish as She Is Spoke"
*Mike Foster, "Teaching Tolkien"
*Arden R. Smith, "Tolkienian Gothic"
*Verlyn Flieger, "Tolkien and the Idea of the Book"
*Douglas A. Anderson, "The Mainstreaming of Fantasy and the Legacy of The Lord of the Rings"
*Richard C. West, "'Her Choice Was Made and Her Doom Appointed': Tragedy and Divine Comedy in the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"
*Wayne G. Hammond, "Special Collections in the Service of Tolkien Studies"
==External links==
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*Goodreads page
*Entry at Tolkien Collector's Guide
*Amazon.com
== See also ==
* Understanding The Lord of the Rings
* Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
* Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
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