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• Introduction (A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger) • essay by John D. Rateliff
• A Seed of Courage: Merry, Pippin, and the Ordinary Her • essay by Amy Amendt-Raduege
• Smith of Wootton Major and Genre Fantasy • essay by David Bratman
• Three Stories Holding Hands: The Wind in the Willows, Huntingtower, and The Hobbit • essay by Marjorie J. Burns [as by Marjorie Burns]
• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Foolhardy Philologist • essay by Jason Fisher
• "Mythology Is Language and Language Is Mythology": How Verlyn Flieger's Favorite 'Bumper Sticker' Works in Tolkien's Legendarium • essay by Andrew Higgins
• Do Eldar Dream of Immortal Sheep?: Dreams, Memory, and Enchantment at the End of the Third Age • essay by Jeremiah Burns and Simon Cook and Thomas Hillman and Richard Rohlin and Oliver Stegen
• "A Green Great Dragon" and J.R.R. Tolkien's "Native Language" • essay by John R. Holmes
• Splintered Heroes: Heroic Variety and Its Function in The Lord of the Rings • essay by Thomas Honegger
• Lessons of Myth, Mortality, and the Machine in the Dream State Space-Time Travel Tales of J.R.R. Tolkien and Olaf Stapledon • essay by Kristine Larsen
• "To Recall Forgotten Gods from Their Twilight": J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Name Nodens" • essay by John D. Rateliff
• A History of the Acquisition: Marquette and the Tolkien Manuscripts • essay by Taum Santoski
• Seers and Singer: Tolkien's Typology of Sub-Creators • essay by Anna Smol
• Tolkien's Story of Kullervo: A Lost Link Between Kirby's Kalevala and Tolkien's Legendarium • essay by Vivien Stocker
• The Rare and Elusive "Green, Great Dragon" • essay by Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
• "A Recognizable Irish Strain" in Tolkien's Work • essay by Kris Swank
• Canute and Beorhtnoth • essay by Richard C. West
• "Green Hill Country": A Scholar's Tale • essay by Peter Grybauskas
• Words Made Flesh in Avalion • essay by Paul Edmund Thomas
• Identity, Time, and Faerie in Pig Tale and The Inn at Corbies' Caaw: An Unexpected Convergence of Realms • essay by David Wilson Wise
• A Teachers' Teacher: Verlyn Flieger • essay by Susan Yager
• Music, Time, and Light in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Verlyn Flieger: A Reflection • essay by Bradford Lee Eden
• "Whose Myth Is It?": Tolkien Studies as Interdisciplinary Studies • essay by Kristine Larsen