A WILDERNESS OF DRAGONS -- Table of Contents

And here's the table of contents for the Flieger festschrift, listing all the essays with their authors.


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

Flieger’s Fictions
‘Green Hill Country’: A Scholar’s Tale            Peter Grybauskas
Words Made Flesh in Avilion: A Romance of Voices            Paul Edmund Thomas
Identity, Time, and Faerie in Pig Taleand The Inn at Corbie’s Caaw: An Unexpected Convergence of Realms            David Wilson Wise

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

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--JDR