An updated checklist of Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien, and Corrections to the printings of TOLKIEN ON FAIRY-STORIES

In Tolkien Studies volume 1 (2004), I published "Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien:  A Checklist".  An updated version was requested for the festschrift in honor of Shippey, published last summer as Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey (McFarland, 2014).  My updated checklist was initially accepted for the volume, but later un-accepted, and replaced by a short unsigned (not by me)
"Appendix: Recent Work—Shippey on Tolkien Since 2004", which has some mistaken inclusions and a larger number of omissions. My fully-updated "Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien: A Checklist through mid-2014" is available here as a downloadable pdf, where I hope its does due honor to Tom, despite it not appearing in his festschrift volume. 

Last summer also saw the publication in trade paperback of Tolkien On Fairy-stories, edited by Verlyn Flieger and myself.  Tolkien On Fairy-stories had two hardcover printings, in 2008, and was out of print for some years until the trade paperback appeared in August 2014.  There were a number of problems with the original copy-edited file that necessitated corrections in the various printings, a few of which are significant, so for scholarly reference I made a file of "Corrections to the printings of Tolkien On Fairy-stories" which is similarly available here as a downloadable pdf. 

Like the above, some of my other writings are available via academia.edu. Check them out here. 

Lo! Beowulf and Other Topics

Just a quick acknowledgement of the long-awaited publication this week of Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, with such interesting extras as "Sellic Spell" and "The Lay of Beowulf". It's very good to see all of these available for scholarly study at last.

I'd also like to call attention to a new venue for the scholarly study of Tolkien, The Journal of Tolkien Research.  This is a peer-reviewed, online, open-access (FREE to all) scholarly journal. I'm serving as Book Reviews Editor, and am pleased to be working with Brad Eden (Editor) as well as other members of the Editorial Board, including Dimitra Fimi, John Holmes, John Houghton, Robin Reid, and Ed Risden.  And I look forward to working with other colleagues as essayists and book reviewers.  Please explore the site to get an idea of what we're planning and doing, and to watch it grow.

I'm also pleased to announce that Tolkien On Fairy-stories, a critical edition of Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-stories" and its associated manuscripts, edited by Verlyn Flieger and myself and originally published by HarperCollins in 2008, is coming out in an affordable trade paperback edition on August 14th.  Order via Amazon.com by clicking here, and via Amazon.co.uk by clicking here.