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  • Bibliography (in English) for 2014
  • David Bratman (bio)
David Bratman

David Bratman is coeditor of Tolkien Studies.

Primary Sources

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book. Ed. Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. London: HarperCollins, 2014. Includes introduction, commentary with other texts of poems, “Tom Bombadil: A Prose Fragment,” and additional poems, “Once upon a Time” and “An Evening in Tavrobel.”
———. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
———, trans. “The Book of Jonah.” Journal of Inklings Studies 4.2 (Oct. 2014): 5–9.
———. “Fragments on Elvish Reincarnation.” Ed. Michaël Devaux, with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien and Carl F. Hostetter. J.R.R. Tolkien: L’effigie des Elfes. Ed. Michaël Devaux. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 94–161. On facing pages with French translation by Devaux.

Books

Arduini, Roberto, and Claudio A. Testi, eds. Tolkien and Philosophy. Zurich: Walking Tree, 2014.
Bernthal, Craig. Tolkien’s Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth. Kettering, OH: Second Spring, 2014.
Brown, Devin. Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2014.
Curry, Patrick. Deep Roots in a Time of Frost: Essays on Tolkien. Zurich: Walking Tree, 2014.
Eden, Bradford Lee, ed. The Hobbit and Tolkien’s Mythology: Essays on Revisions and Influences. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.
Edwards, Raymond. Tolkien. London: Robert Hale, 2014.
Garth, John. Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Oxford Undergraduate Created Middle-earth. London: John Garth, 2014. [End Page 301]
Higgens, Deborah A. Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Toronto, ON: Oloris, 2014.
Hooker, Mark T. The Tolkienaeum: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien and His Legendarium. Llyfrawr, 2014.
Houghton, John Wm., Janet Brennan Croft, Nancy Martsch, John D. Rateliff, and Robin Anne Reid, eds. Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.
Jeffers, Susan. Arda Inhabited: Environmental Relationships in The Lord of the Rings. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014.
Lee, Stuart D., ed. A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2014.
Liedl, Janice, and Nancy Ruth Reagin, eds. The Hobbit and History. Nashville, TN: Wiley, 2014.
Nicolay, Theresa Freda. Tolkien and the Modernists: Literary Responses to the Dark New Days of the 20th Century. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.
North, Wyatt. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Life Inspired. Wyatt North, 2014.
Pearce, Joseph. Beauteous Truth: Faith, Reason, Literature and Culture. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s, 2014.
Witt, Jonathan, and Jay W. Richards. The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot. San Francisco: Ignatius, 2014.

Articles and Book Chapters

Acocella, Joan. “Slaying Monsters.” New Yorker 2 June 2014: 70–71.
Artamonova, Maria. “ ‘Minor’ Works.” Lee 189–201.
Atherton, Mark. “Old English.” Lee 217–29.
———. “ ‘Seeing a Picture before Us’: Tolkien’s Commentary in His Translation of Beowulf.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society 55 (Autumn 2014): 21–22.
Bador, Damien. “From ‘The Silmarillion’ to The Hobbit and Back Again: An Onomastic Foray.” Eden 97–112.
Barootes, B.S.W. “ ‘He Chanted a Song of Wizardry’: Words with Power in Middle-earth.” Houghton et al. 115–31. [End Page 302]
Bateman, Chris. “What Are We Playing With? Role-Taking, Role Play and Story-Play with Tolkien’s Legendarium.” International Journal of Play 3.2 (2014): 107–18.
Beal, Jane. “Orphic Powers in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legend of Beren and Lúthien.” Journal of Tolkien Research 1.1 (2014). http://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol1/iss1/1/.
Birkett, Tom. “Old Norse.” Lee 244–58.
Birks, Annie. “Sympathetic Background in Tolkien’s Prose.” Hither Shore 11 (2014): 52–63.
Bossert, Ray. “The Elvish Devil.” The Devil and Philosophy: The Nature of...

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