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