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Half of the conference participants focused their research on The Lord of the Rings and their papers are a significant addition to the scholarly literature on the novel.  Other presenters investigated the larger body of Tolkien’s notable achievements--as a writer of fiction, a maker of language, and one of the leading philologists of his day.  The conference proceedings were edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, presenters and moderators at the conference, and authors of the acclaimed J.R.R.Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) and The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (HarperCollins, 2005).

Both the 2004 conference and the proceedings were supported by the Tolkien Archives Fund, an endowment established by the late Dr. Blackwelder.

Articles and authors include:

"Richard E. Blackwelder: Scholar, Collector, Benefactor, and Friend"...Charles B. Elston

"The AB Language Lives"...Arne Zettersten

"History in Words: Tolkien's Ruling Passion"...T.A. Shippey

"Frodo and the Great War"...John Garth

"Towards Quite Unforeseen Goals"...Paul Edmund Thomas

"'And All the Days of Her Life Are Forgotten': The Lord of the Rings as Mythic Prehistory"...John   D. Rateliff

"What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?: Planning, Inspiration, and The Lord of the Rings" ...Christina Scull

"The Artistry of Omissions and Revisions in The Lord of the Rings"...David Bratman

"King and Hobbit: The Exalted and Lowly in Tolkien's Created Worlds"...Marjorie Burns

"Subversive Fantasist: Tolkien on Class Difference"...Jane Chance

"Naysayers in the Works of Tolkien"...Sumner Gary Hunnewell

"The Rhetorical Evolution of 'Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics'"...Michael D.C. Drout

"Working at the Crossroads: Tolkien, St. Augustine, and the Beowulf-poet,"...Matthew A. Fisher

'"Elvish as She is Spoke"...Carl F. Hostetter

"Teaching Tolkien"...Mike Foster

"Tolkienian Gothic"...Arden R. Smith

"Tolkien and the Idea of the Book"...Verlyn Flieger

"The Mainstreaming of Fantasy and the Legacy of The Lord of the Rings"...Douglas A. Anderson

"'Her Choice Was Made and Her Doom Appointed': Tragedy and Divine Comedy in the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"...Richard C. West

"Special Collections in the Service of Tolkien Studies"...Wayne G. Hammond

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Also Available

The museum exhibition, "The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: Drawings and Original Manuscripts from the Marquette University Collection" was created in conjunction with the 2004 conference.  A limited number of exhibition catalogues remain available from Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art.  The 44-page catalogue features three essays, ten color illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a bibliography.  To order the catalogue, mail a check or money order for $25.00, payable to Marquette University, to the museum at the address below.  Please specify The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art
Marquette University
P. O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881

Questions about the J.R.R. Tolkien Collection may be addressed to Matt Blessing, Head of Special Collections (414-288-5901) or matt.blessing@marquette.edu