Tolkien Studies 21: an announcement

On behalf of myself and my co-editors, Michael D.C. Drout and Yvette Kisor, here are the expected contents of volume 21 of the journal Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. This issue will be dated 2024; we know we're behind. 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 in a few months. - David Bratman, co-editor

Tolkien Studies 21 (2024) **

• Alexandra Bolintineanu, "Tolkien's Elegiac Trees: Enta Geweorc and the Ents Across Time"
• Patrick J. Murphy, "The Riddles of The Hobbit, the Academic History of the Exeter Book, and the Invention of Tolkien's Ring"
• Anika Jensen, "'I Wonder If Any Song Will Ever Mention It': Locating Precarious Time in The Lord of the Rings"
• Eduardo Boheme Kumamoto, "The Allegiant Translator: J.R.R. Tolkien, Burton Raffel, and Verse Translation"
• John Garth and Peter Gilliver, "The Wanderer's Return: New Findings on Tolkien in Oxford 1918-19"
• Claudio A. Testi, "From 'The Tree' to 'Leaf by Niggle': Up to the Mountains and Beyond"
• Peizhen Wu and Michael D.C. Drout, "'The Course of Actual Composition': Analysis of some aspects of the revision history of The Lord of the Rings using 'Lexomic' digital methods"

** Notes and Documents

• Łukasz Neubauer, "The 'Origin of Gandalf': Josef Madlener's Der Berggeist and the Transboundary Mountain Spirit Rübezahl as Purported Sources of Inspiration for Tolkien's Wizard"
• Matthew Thompson-Handell, "Reconsidering the Early Critical Response to The Lord of the Rings"

** Book Reviews

• Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth, by Robert Stuart, reviewed by Yvette Kisor
• Representing Midle-earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology, by Robert T. Tally, Jr., reviewed by Douglas C. Kane
• Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, by Thomas P. Hillman, reviewed by Clare Moore
• Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology, ed. Douglas Estes, reviewed by Nick Polk
• How to Misunderstand Tolkien: The Critics and the Fantasy Master, by Bruno Bacelli, reviewed by Lori Campbell-Tanner

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• Cami D. Agan, David Bratman, The Rev. Tom Emanuel, Jonathan Evans, Jason Fisher, and John Magoun, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2021"
• David Bratman, "Bibliography (in English) for 2022"
• Errata: TS 18