Most Popular Papers *
The Light of Learning: Medieval Scholar-Kings and Loremasters in the Line of Eärendil
Kristine Larsen
Representing Middle-earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology (2024), by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Andrew Higgins
Tolkien’s Animals: A Bibliography
Kris Swank
Túrin Was Dead: To Begin With. Death, Fate, And A Happy Ending In The Book of Lost Tales
Thomas Hillman PhD
“What Ship Will Bear Me Ever Back”: Woundedness and the Western Sea
Janet Brennan Croft
“A Time of Fire and Cataclysm”: The Centrality of Cosmic War in Tolkien’s Round World Cosmologies
Kristine Larsen
Bilbo's Boethian Heroism
Wendy Marie Hoofnagle
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