Tolkien's Shorter Works: Essays of the Jena Conference 2007

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Tolkien's Shorter Works: Essays of the Jena Conference 2007 is an essay collection of Walking Tree Publishers' Cormarë Series focusing on J.R.R. Tolkien's shorter, less prominent works such as his children's tales, Medieval stories, and "Mythopoeia". It was released in early 2008.

Essays[]

Introduction by Margaret Hiley & Frank Weinreich
Allan Turner, "'Tom Bombadil': Poetry and Accretion"
Guglielmo Spirito, "Speaking With Animals: A Desire that Lies Near the Heart of Faërie"
Marek Oziewicz, "Setting Things Right in Farmer Giles of Ham and the Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Conception of Justice"
Vincent Ferré, "The Rout of the King: Tolkien's Readings on Arthurian Kingship – Farmer Giles of Ham and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth"
Friedhelm Schneidewind, "Farmer Giles of Ham: the Prototype of a Humorous Dragon Story"
Patrick Brückner, "'... Until the Dragon Comes': Tolkien’s Dragon-Motif as Poetological Concept"
Thomas Fornet-Ponse, "Theology and Fairy-Stories: A Theological Reading of Tolkien's Shorter Works?"
Bertrand Alliot, "The 'Meaning' of Leaf by Niggle"
Heidi Steimel, "The Autobiographical Tolkien"
Fabian Geier, "Leaf by Tolkien? Allegory and Biography in Tolkien's Literary Theory and Practice"
Martin Simonson, "Redefining the Romantic Hero: a Reading of Smith of Wootton Major in the Light of Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg"
Maria Raffaella Benvenuto, "Smith of Wootton Major, 'The Sea-Bell' and Lothlórien: Tolkien and the Perils of Faërie"
Anna E. Slack, "A Star Above the Mast: Tolkien, Faërie and the Great Escape"
Margaret Hiley, "Journeys in the Dark"
Martin Sternberg, "Smith of Wootton Major Considered as a Religious Text"
Frank Weinreich, "Metaphysics of Myth: The Platonic Ontology of 'Mythopoeia'"