Product Description: How Tradition Works examines the ways traditions are created, constituted, modified, and recognized. Expanding and revising "memetic" theory, the book analyzes the culture of the tenth-century English Benedictine Reform. How Tradition Works shows how this flowering of culture can be traced to the reliance by Anglo-Saxon monks upon unchanging written rules, the Rule of St...read more

Product Description: A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J...read more

Product Description: The author of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS, J. R. R. Tolkien was also an Oxford scholar deeply versed in medieval literature. Articles in TOLKIEN STUDIES reflect that dual capacity, with writers studying Tolkien s narratives and academic work, along with recent movie adaptations and international translations...read more

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.

Tolkien's famous essay was originally a Gollancz Lecture at the British Academy.