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Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of JRR Tolkien presents essays by various Tolkien scholars about humor in or stimulated by J.R.R. Tolkien's works such as The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Farmer Giles of Ham. It was published in 2016 as the thirty-fifth book of the Cormarë Series.

Essays[]

  • Maureen F. Mann, "'Certainly not our sense': Tolkien and Nonsense"
  • Alastair Whyte, "A Fountain of Mirth: Laughter in Arda"
  • Jennifer Raimundo, "Mirth's Might: The Tenacity of Humour in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien"
  • Łukasz Neubauer, "Plain Ignorance in the Vulgar Form: Tolkien's Onomastic Humour in Farmer Giles of Ham"
  • Laura Lee Smith, "'This of course is the way to talk to dragons': Etiquette-Based Humour in The Hobbit"
  • Evelyn Koch, "Parodies of the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien"
  • Sherrylyn Branchaw, "Strategies of Humour in The Stupid Ring Parody"
  • Davide Martini, "Humour in Art Depicting Middle-earth"
  • Jared Lobdell, "Humour, Comedy, the Comic, Comicality, Puns, Wordplay, 'Fantastication', and 'English Humour' in and around Tolkien and His Work, and among the Inklings"

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