Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, 1992 : proceedings of the Conference held at Keble College, Oxford, England, 17th-24th August 1992 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, incorporating the 23rd Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon XXIII) and Oxonmoot 1992 / edited by Patricia Reynolds and Glen GoodKnight.
Reminiscences : Oxford in 1920, meeting Tolkien and becoming an author at 77 / Vera Chapman -- Tolkien centenary banquet address / Glen H. GoodKnight -- Sermon at Thanksgiving service, Keble College chapel, 23rd August 1992 / Robert Murray -- Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien / George Sayer -- Publishing Tolkien / Rayner Unwin -- Quid hinieldus cum Christo? : new perspectives on Tolkien's theological dilemma and his sub-creation theory / Nils Ivar Agoy -- Tolkien's experiment with time : the lost road, "The notion club papers" and J.W. Dunne / Verlyn Flieger -- Higher argument : Tolkien and the tradition of vision, epic and prophecy / Deirdre Greene -- An anthropologist in Middle-earth / Virginia Luling -- Frodo and his spectre : Blakean resonances in Tolkien / Charles E. Noad -- An overview of the northern influences on Tolkien's works ; Volsunga saga and Narn : some analogies / Gloriana St. Clair -- Tolkien's revision of the romantic tradition / Chris Seeman -- Tolkien as a post-war writer / Tom Shippey -- Where do elves go to? : Tolkien and a fantasy tradition / Norman Talbot -- Eating, devouring, sacrifice and ultimate just desserts / Marjorie Burns -- Power and knowledge in Tolkien : the problem of difference in "The birthday party" / Jane Chance -- The moral epiphanies in The lord of the rings / Joe R. Christopher -- "Less noise and more green" : Tolkien's ideology for England / Patrick Curry -- The earthly paradise in Tolkien's "The lord of the rings" / Gwenyth Hood -- Tolkien as reviser : a case study / Gloriana St. Clair -- Open minds, closed minds in The lord of the rings / Christina Scull -- Historical bias in the making of The silmarillion / Alex Lewis -- Aspects of the fall in The silmarillion / Eric Schweicher -- At the wordface : J.R.R. Tolkien's work on the Oxford English dictionary / Peter M. Gilliver -- The growth of grammar in the elven tongues / Christopher Gilson and Patrick Wynne -- Tolkien's dictionary poetics : the influence of the OED's defining style on Tolkien's fiction / Deirdre Greene -- Problems of translating into Russian / Natalia Grigorieva -- J.R.R. Tolkien and Old English studies : an appreciation / Bruce Mitchell -- Tolkien and the Gawain-poet / Tom Shippey -- How Russians see Tolkien / Vladimir Grushetskiy -- The critical response to Tolkien's fiction / Wayne G. Hammond -- Tolkien the anti-totalitarian / Jessica Yates -- Good guys, bad guys, fantasy and reality / Helen Armstrong -- The realm of faerie ; Point of view in Tolkien / Christine Barkley -- J.R.R. Tolkien and the clerihew / Joe R. Christopher -- Power in arda : sources, uses and misuses / Edith L. Crowe -- Tolkien and Englishness / Chris Hopkins -- A mythology for England / Carl J. Hostetter and Arden R. Smith -- A Tolkien chronology / Nancy Martsch -- Evil and the evil one in Tolkien's theology / Tadeusz Andrzej Olszanski -- Tolkien's exceptional visit to Holland : a reconstruction / Rene van Rossenberg -- A mythology? For England? / Anders Stenstrom -- Tolkien's elvish craft / Dwayne Thorpe -- A physics of Middle-earth / Jenny Coombs and Marc Read -- Explorations into the psyche of dwarves / David A. Funk -- The geology of Middle-earth / William Antony Swithin Sarjeant -- Writing and allied technologies in Middle-earth / Lester E. Simons -- Hermetic imagination : the effect of the golden dawn on fantasy literature / Charles A. Coulombe -- Tolkien, Sayers, sex and gender / David Doughan -- Tolkien and the other inklings / Colin Duriez -- Female authority figures in the works of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams / Lisa Hopkins -- More than a bandersnatch : Tolkien as a collaborative writer / Diana Lynne Pavlac -- "A pattern which our nature cries out for" : the medieval tradition of the ordered four in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien -- Baggins remembered / John Ellison -- Short history of the territorial development of the dwarves' kingdoms in the second and third ages of Middle-earth / Hubert Sawa -- The mechanics of dragons : an introduction to the study of their 'ologies / Angela Surtees and Steve Gardner -- Tales of wonder : science fiction and fantasy in the age of Jane Austen / Madawc Williams -- Natural mysticism in Kenneth Grahame's The wind in the willows ; Cetacean consciousness in Katz's Whalesinger and L'Engle's A ring of endless light / J.R. Wytenbroek.
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