Tolkien Studies Vol. 1 para download e lançamento do Vol. 2

Ano passado foi noticiado o [url=http://forum.valinor.com.br/viewtopic.php?t=35221]lançamento do primeiro jornal acadêmico dedicado a J. R. R. Tolkien[/url], o "Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review". Editado pelo Dr. Michael Drout, Douglas Anderson e Verlyn Flieger, o jornal, de publicação anual, possuía vários ensaios, tais como "Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: Tolkien’s Elvish Problem" e "Frodo’s Batman", todos escritos por estudiosos acadêmicos. Agora, o [url=http://muse.jhu.edu/]Project MUSE: Scholarly journals online[/url], da Johns Hopkins University Press em colaboração com a Milton S. Eisenhower Library, disponibiliza todo o volume 1 de "Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review", em HTML e PDF, e de graça! Basta clicar [url=http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/tolkien_studies/]aqui[/url] para poder ter acesso aos ensaios! Aproveitando o embalo, vale avisar que a partir do dia 30 de Abril, a West Virginia University publica o [url=http://www.wvupress.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=72&osCsid=07f1d8823e4aff1e3a73439db89984d2]Volume 2 de "Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review"[/url], também tendo Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout e Verlyn Flieger como editores. Neste novo volume teremos: [i]"And She Named Her Own Name": Being True to One’s Own Word in Tolkien’s Middle-earth[/i] – Richard C. West [i]Richard C. West: A Checklist[/i] – Compilado por Douglas A. Anderson [i]Parallel Lives: The Sons of Denethor and the Sons of Telamon[/i] – Miryam Libran-Moreno [i]The White City: The Lord of the Rings as an Early Medieval Myth of the Restoration of the Roman Empire[/i] – Judy Ann Ford [i]World Creation as Colonization: British Imperialism in "Aldarion and Erendis"[/i] – Elizabeth Massa Hoiem [i]"Tricksy Lights": Literary and Folkloric Elements in Tolkien’s Passage of the Dead Marshes[/i] – Margaret Sinex [i]Tolkien and Modernism[/i] – Patchen Mortimer [i]Tolkien, King Alfred, and Boethius[/i] – John Wm. Houghton and Neal K. Keesee [i]A Definitive Identification of Tolkien’s "Borgil":An Astronomical and Literary Approach[/i] – Kristine Larsen [i]Love: "The Gift of Death"[/i] – Linda Greenwood [i]Tolkien’s Imaginary Nature: An Analysis of the Structure of Middle-earth[/i] – Michael J. Brisbois [i]Obituary: Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005)[/i] – Douglas A. Anderson