Most Popular Papers *
The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien’s Myth of Wilderness (2022) by Amber Lehning
Andrew Higgins
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
Tolkien’s Animals: A Bibliography
Kris Swank
Just War, Pacifism, and Inevitability of Conflict: Tolkien’s Changing Attitudes to War
Alexander Retakh
Perceiving the Perceiver: “Viewing” Sauron Through the Gestalt Theory of Perception
Cameron Bourquein
Mourning and Melancholia in The Lord of the Rings
Ali Mirzabayati
The Wheel of Fire: An Obsessive-Compulsive Reading of Frodo Baggins
Andreas J.W. Minshew
Grief, Grieving, and Permission to Mourn in the Quenta Silmarillion
Dawn M. Walls-Thumma
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