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"In this collection, former students and colleagues honor Thomas Alan Shippey with 15 essays that reflect their mentor's research interests, methods of literary criticism and attention to Tolkien's shorter works. Also included are brief memoirs by Shippey's colleagues and friends in academia and fandom, and a bibliography of Shippey's work"--
Introduction / John Wm. Houghton -- Counseling the Scippigraed : How T.A. Shippey taught us to read / John R. Holmes -- Shippey : the philologist and the critics / David Bratman -- Tom Shippey, and a few new leaves on some old roots and branches / E.L. Risden -- A talk by Tom Shippey / Todd Jensen -- Tom Shippey and the Tolkien Society / Jessica Yates -- Shippey amongst the Mercians / John Wm. Houghton -- The "lady with the simple gown and white arms" or Possible influences of 19th and early 20th century book illustrations on Tolkien's work / Nancy Martsch -- Places where the stars are strange : fantasy and utopia in Tolkien's Middle-earth / Robert T. Tally, Jr. -- Middle-earth and the waste land : greenwood, apocalypse and post-war resolution / E.L. Risden -- The jewels, the stone, the ring, and the making of meaning / Verlyn Flieger -- Tolkien and apposition / Leslie Stratyner -- Keeping counsel : advice in Tolkien's fiction / John R. Holmes -- Tolkien's wraiths, rings and dragons : an exercise in literary linguistics / Jason Fisher -- "He chanted a song of wizardry" : words with power in Middle-earth / B.S.W. Barootes -- Inside literature : Tolkien's explorations of medieval genres / John D. Rateliff -- "Poor Smégol" : Gollum as exile in The lord of the rings / Yvette Kisor -- The presence of the past in The lord of the rings / John B. Marino -- Night-wolves, half-trolls and the dead who won't stay down / Marjorie Burns -- Väinäinen in Middle-earth : the pervasive presence of the Kalevala in the Bombadil chapters of The lord of the rings / David L. Dettman -- "Lack of counsel not of courage" : J.R.R. Tolkien's critique of the heroic ethos in The children of Húrin / Richard C. West -- "Alone between the dark and light" : "The lay of Aotrou and Itroun" and lessons from the later Legendarium / Kristine Larsen -- Appendix : Recent work---Shippey on Tolkien since 2004.
edited by John Wm. Houghton, Janet Brennan Croft, Nancy Martsch, John D. Rateliff and Robin Anne Reid.
Includes bibliographical references and index.