The Journal of Tolkien Research (JTR) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal. It is an open access journal, and content will be published immediately once peer reviewers and editors have deemed it ready for publication.
See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.
Current Issue: Volume 24, Issue 2
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Tolkien, Modernism, and Mass Art
Matthew Thompson-Handell
Not Two Selves but a Relational Field: A Relational Frame Theory Reading of Gollum
Emilio R. López-Navarro
Articles
The Pope, American Politics, and the Battle for Tolkien’s Soul in the Twenty-First Century
Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer
Some notes on a Tolkien’s manuscript linked to ‘Leaf by Niggle’
Claudio Antonio Testi
Book Reviews
Arda Notebooks: The Best of I Quaderni di Arda (2026), ed. by Roberto Arduini, Claudio A. Testi and Wu Ming 4.
Andrew Higgins
Conference Papers
Medieval, Magical, or Melodramatic? Depictions of Elrond Half-elven in Film and Television Adaptations
Kristine Larsen
Echoes of Medieval Timekeeping in Middle-earth and Valinor
Kristine Larsen