Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume III is the third book in the first scholarly series published by an academic press for the purpose of presenting and reviewing the growing body orf critical commentary and scholarship about J. R. R. Tolkien's writings. Essays in this volume include "Tolkienian Linguistics at 50" by Carl F. Hostetter, "Dream Visions of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" by Amy M. Amendt-Raduege, "Three is Company: Novel, Fairy Tale, and Romance on the Journey through the Shire" by Martin Simpson, and "Beowulf as Fairy-Story: Enchanting the Elegaic in The Two Towers." Eleven essays, plus bibliography for 2004, the year’s work in review, and an extensive book review section.

When fifteen-year-old Mokie, an orphan girl with a way with animals, is attacked by the village boys, she flees Little Wicken and travels into the mysterious Wickenwood where she meets a trio of gypsies who might hold the key to her past. (view table of contents)

Product Description: As a scholar of medieval languages and literature, J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and legend. When he died in 1973, he left behind a vast body of unpublished material related to his fictive mythology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)