Tolkien Studies 16: an announcement

On behalf of myself and my co-editors, Michael D.C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger, here are the expected contents of volume 16 of the journal Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. All of the works are now in the hands of our publisher, West Virginia University Press, and the volume is scheduled to be published in softcover and on Project MUSE later this year. - David Bratman, co-editor

Tolkien Studies 16 (2019)

• Luke J. Chambers, "Enta Geweorc and the Work of Ents"
  
  
• Marie H. Loughlin, "Tolkien's Treasures: Marvellous Objects in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"
  
  
• Anika Jensen, "Flowers and Steel: The Necessity of War in Feminist Tolkien Scholarship"
  
  
• J.M. Silk, "The Kings of the Mark: Tolkien's Naming Process and his Views on Language Evolution"
  
  
• Megan N. Fontenot, "The Art of Eternal Disaster: Tolkien's Apocalypse and the Road to Healing"
  
  
• John Rosegrant, "Mother Music"
  

**Notes and Documents

• Richard C. West, "A Letter from Father Murray"
  
  
• Thomas P. Hillman, "Not Where He Eats, But Where He Is Eaten: Bilbo's Bread and Butter Simile"
  

**Book Reviews

• Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth and Tolkien Treasures, by Catherine McIlwaine, reviewed by Denis Bridoux
  
  
• The Fall of Gondolin, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, reviewed by Jennifer Rogers
  
  
• Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work, its Precursors and its Legacies, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger, reviewed by David Bratman
  

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• David Bratman, Jason Fisher, John Wm. Houghton, John Magoun, Kate Neville, Robin Anne Reid, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2016"
  
  
• David Bratman, "Bibliography (in English) for 2017"