Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Tag: Journal of Tolkien Research

  • Shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Best Article Award!

    I’m thrilled to find that my article “Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Poetic Allusions and the Experience of Time” has been shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Award! Voting for TS members open until Friday 25 April.

  • Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’

    Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’

    Links to two articles available for free download on J.R.R. Tolkien’s play, “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth” and a video recording of a conference presentation on Tolkien as a playwright. These essays discuss manuscript revisions, ideas about drama, and allusions to medieval poetry.

  • New Books on Tolkien

    The busyness of the start of term in September gradually turns into the marking marathon that is October and November, and the silence of my blog in those months is testimony to how the hours of my days and evenings have been taken up with course preparations and grading, grading, grading. I was just reading…