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paper in print
Mar. 26th, 2006 10:42 amOnce upon a time I went to Milwaukee to give a paper at a Tolkien conference. Now the proceedings have been published: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder and I have another publication on my resume.
I'm sorry that I can't find any web links that say what's actually in the book - hefty little volume, 387 pages hardbound in incongruous baby blue - but I can list and summarize the papers if anyone's interested. A brief taste is in this summary of the actual conference by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
milwaukeesfs. Suffice to say now that when you have people like Tom Shippey, John Garth, John D. Rateliff, Christina Scull, Carl F. Hostetter, and Mike Foster - to name the authors of only some of the best essays - you have the very best in Tolkien scholarship. I'm stunned to be in there with them.
I'm sorry that I can't find any web links that say what's actually in the book - hefty little volume, 387 pages hardbound in incongruous baby blue - but I can list and summarize the papers if anyone's interested. A brief taste is in this summary of the actual conference by
milwaukeesfs. Suffice to say now that when you have people like Tom Shippey, John Garth, John D. Rateliff, Christina Scull, Carl F. Hostetter, and Mike Foster - to name the authors of only some of the best essays - you have the very best in Tolkien scholarship. I'm stunned to be in there with them.
