A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger

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A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger is a collection of essays in honor of eminent Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger. It was compiled by John D. Rateliff and published in January, 2018. Essays either concern Flieger directly or a topic of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium and peripheral works.

Essays[]

Amy Amendt-Raduege, "A Seed of Courage: Merry, Pippin, and the Ordinary Hero"
David Bratman, "Smith of Wootton Major and Genre Fantasy"
Marjorie Burns, "Three Stories Holding Hands: The Wind in the Willows, Huntingtower, and The Hobbit"
Jason Fisher, "J.R.R. Tolkien: The Foolhardy Philologist"
Andrew Higgins, "Mythology is Language and Language is Mythology: How Verlyn Flieger's Favorite ‘Bumper-sticker’ Works in Tolkien's Legendarium"
Thomas Hillman, Simon Cook, Jeremiah Burns, Richard Rohlin, and Oliver Stegen, "Do Eldar Dream of Immortal Sheep?: Dreams, Memory, and Enchantment at the End of the Third Age"
John R. Holmes, "'A Green Great Dragon' and J.R.R. Tolkien’s 'Native Language'"
Thomas Honegger, "Splintered Heroes: Heroic Variety and its Function in The Lord of the Rings"
Kristine Larsen, "Lessons of Myth, Mortality, & the Machine in the Dream State Space-Time Travel Tales of J.R.R. Tolkien and Olaf Stapledon"
John D. Rateliff, "'To Recall Forgotten Gods from their Twilight': J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Name Nodens'"
Taum Santoski, "A History of the Acquisition: Marquette and the Tolkien Manuscripts"
Anna Smol, "Seers and Singers: Tolkien’s Typology of Sub-creators"
Vivien Stocker, "Tolkien’s Story of Kullervo: A Lost Link between Kirby's Kalevala and Tolkien’s Legendarium"
Sandra Ballif Staubhaar, "The Rare and Elusive “Green, Great Dragon”"
Kris Swank, "A Recognizable Irish Strain in Tolkien's Work"
Richard C. West, "Canute and Beorhtnoth"

Peter Grybauskas, "'Green Hill Country': A Scholar’s Tale"
Paul Edmund Thomas, "Words Made Flesh in Avilion"
Dennis Wilson Wise, "Identity, Time, and Faerie in Pig Tale and The Inn at Corbies' Caaw: An Unexpected Convergence of Realms"

Susan Yager, "A Teacher's Teacher: Verlyn Flieger"
Bradford Lee Eden, "Music, Time, and Light in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Verlyn Flieger: A Reflection"
Kristine Larsen, "'Whose Myth Is It?': Tolkien Studies as Interdisciplinary Studies"