Cover -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- Notes on Submissions -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Abbreviations -- Tolkienian Linguistics -- First Stage-Readers and Correspondents -- First Interlude-Decoders -- Second Stage-Journals and Books -- Second Interlude-The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth -- Third Stage-Conceptionists and Unifists -- Third Interlude-Courses, Columns, and Lexicons -- Fourth Interlude-VT, Myself, and I -- Fifth Interlude-Elves in Cyberspace -- Fourth Stage-Scholars and Speakers -- or, Elvish and Neo-Elvish -- Sixth Interlude-A Gateway to Sindarin -- Conclusion-Fifty Years On and Onward -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Recommended Additional Reading -- Primary works -- Secondary works -- Web Sites -- Conference -- Carl F. Hostetter: A Checklist -- Texts by J.R.R. Tolkien as Edited or Co-Edited by Carl F. Hostetter -- Critical Work on Tolkien by Carl F. Hostetter -- Tolkien-Related Books, Periodicals or Forums Editer or Co-Edited by Carl F. Hostetter -- Tolkien's "'Celtic' type of legends" -- 1. Tolkien's Celtic Library -- 2. Time-travel Stories and the Blending of Celtic and Anglo-SaxonTraditions -- 3. The Continuing Fascination of the Arthurian Legend -- 4. Middle-English, French and Celtic: "The Lay of Leithian" -- 5. Merging Traditions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Greek and Latin Amatory Motifs in Éowyn's Portrayal -- 1. Tolkien's portrait of Éowyn -- 2. Greek and Latin amatory motifs: analysis and sources -- 2.1. Florida-puella (the beloved seen as a flower) -- 2.2. ἔρως γλυκύπικρος (bitter-sweet love) -- 2.3 Dura puella (flinty girl) -- 2.4 Hiemps amoris ("the winter of love") and ver erat ("it was spring") -- 3. De rosis nascentibus as original inspiration for Éowyn's portrait -- 4. Purpose and meaning of the amatory motifs in Éowyn's portrait -- Notes -- Works Cited.

The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow -- Notes -- Works Cited -- J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship and its Significance -- Word Studies -- Dialect Studies -- Editions and Translations -- Middle English -- Old English -- Literary Criticism -- "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" -- "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son" -- "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" -- Essays, Reviews and 'Meta-Scholarship' -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Appendices -- J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship Publications in Chronological Order -- Posthumous Publications -- J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship Publications by Medieval Text -- Old English -- Middle English -- J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship Publications Arranged by Type -- Word Studies -- Dialect Studies -- Editions and Translations -- Literary Criticism -- Essays, Reviews and Meta-Criticism -- Notes and Documents -- The Name "Nodens" -- Notes -- Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect -- Notes -- Works Cited -- The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth -- How came they thus to win over the Bridge? -- Let heart be prouder -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Tracking the Elusive Hobbit -- Notes -- Works Cited -- "Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- SAURON, Mount Doom, and Elvish Moths -- Works Cited -- Book Reviews -- The Company They Keep -- Ents, Elves, and Eriador -- Works Cited -- From Hobbits to Hollywood -- Works Cited -- The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide -- Works Cited -- J.R R. Tolkien Encyclopedia -- Works Cited -- The Keys of Middle-earth -- The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004 -- The Philosophy of Tolkien -- The Plants of Middle-earth -- Works Cited -- The Power of the Ring -- Reading "The Lord of the Rings" -- Works Cited -- The Ring of Words -- The Rise of Tolkienian Fantasy.

The Roots of Tolkien's Middle Earth -- A Tolkien Mathomium -- Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages -- Book Notes -- The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2004 -- Works by Tolkien -- Biographical Studies -- General Literary Criticism: The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's Work as a Whole -- General Literary Criticism: Other Works -- Mythological Studies -- Religious and Devotional -- Tolkien's Sub-Creations -- Tolkenian Linguistics and Translation Studies -- Reception Studies, Criticism of Secondary Work, and Bibliography -- Film Studies -- Parodies -- Bibliography (in English) for 2005 -- Primary Sources -- Books -- Articles and Book Chaptes -- Selected Reviews -- Notes on Contributors.