A New Issue of ORCRIST!

Orcrist no. 9, dated April, but published May 2017

**UPDATE 16 June 2017: Copies of Orcrist no. 9 can be now be ordered directly. Inquiries (and paypal payments) to TolkienSocietyUW@gmail.com **

The J.R.R. Tolkien Society at the University of Wisconsin--Madison was founded in 1966.  It has met continuously for over fifty years. It also published eight issues of a journal, Orcrist, with issue one dated 1966/1967 and issue eight dated 1977.  Orcrist has been dormant for forty years, but now, at long last, issue nine has just been published!  The contents are listed below.

Orcrist [no. 9] (April 2017) ed. Richard C. West (Tolkien and Fantasy Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 57pp, quarto, cover by Sylvia Hunnewell, rear cover by Rachel Hunnewell)

2 * table of contents
3 * Foreword * Richard C. West * ed
5 * About the Contributors * Anon. * bg
6 * The Novels of Evangeline Walton * Douglas A. Anderson * ar [Evangeline
       Walton]
10 * Off to Wellington without a Handkerchief * Kristin Thompson * ar  [reprinted
       from TheOneRing.net, 26 July 2012]
15 * I Know What Happened to the Entwives * Jeanne Gomoll * ar
17 * The Lord of the Rings: An Analysis of Power and the Origin of Evil * Peter
       Brummel * ar
21 * How The Hobbit Came to Milwaukee * John D. Rateliff * ar
33 * Linguistic Diversity in Middle-earth, Malacandra, Perelandra, and England *
       Thomas A. DuBois * ar
40 * Our "Precious": A Buddhist Meditation on the One Ring * Zuiko Julie
        Redding * ar
44 * Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy, ed. Douglas A. Anderson
        * Hank Luttrell * br [incorporates a 2004 review from SFSite.com]
48 * Moot Point: Letters to Orcrist * Charles Noad, Debra Daemmrich * lt
49 * Earendlil and Auzandil * Nelson Goering * ar
53 * Saint Smith: Reading Smith of Wootton Major as a Saint's Life * Matthew A.
        Fisher * ar