Richard C. West, 1944–2020

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Richard C. West, 1944–2020 Douglas A. Anderson Books Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1970 Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1981 [Revised edition] [Based on earlier work published as "An Annotated Bibliography of Tolkien Criticism" in Orcrist, no. 1 (1966–67): 52–91; Supplement One in Orcrist, no. 2 (1967–68): 40–54; Supplement Two in Orcrist, no. 3 (co-published as Tolkien Journal, 4 no. 1; whole no. 11; 1969): 22–23; Supplement Three in Orcrist, no. 5 (co-published as Tolkien Journal, 4 no. 3; whole no. 14; 1970–71): 14–31. Material from the first two issues of Orcrist was revised and published as "An Annotated Bibliography of Tolkien Criticism," Extrapolation, 10 no. 1 (December 1968): 17–45. A highly selective supplement is "A Tolkien Checklist: Selected Criticism 1981–2004."] On Tolkien's Interlace and Other Essays [in preparation] Tolkien-Related Critical Articles and Reviews [untitled], Christian Scholar's Review, 6 (1977): 352–53. [Review of Tolkien and The Silmarillion (1976) by Clyde S. Kilby.] [untitled], Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 9 no. 3 (1998): 247–250. [Review of A Question of Time (1997) by Verlyn Flieger.] [untitled], Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, 21 (2004): 114–116. [Review of The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition (2002), ed. by Douglas A. Anderson.] [untitled], Tolkien Studies 3 (2006): 232–234. [Review of Unsung Heroes of "The Lord of the Rings": From Page to Screen (2005), by Lynnette R. Porter.] [untitled], Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, 23 (dated 2006; published 2007): 117–119. [Review of The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "The Lord of the Rings" (2004), by Fleming Rutledge.] [End Page 13] [untitled], Tolkien Studies 6 (2009): 309–12. [Review of Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy (2008), ed. Jonathan B. Himes, with Joe R. Christopher and Salwa Khoddam.] [untitled], Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, 28 (2011): 117–119. [Review of Middle-earth and Beyond (2010), edited by Kathleen Dubs and Janka Kaščáková.] [untitled], Tolkien Studies 8 (2011): 130–136. [Review of The Power of Tolkien's Prose (2012), by Steve Walker.] [untitled], Tolkien Studies 12 (2015): 173–177. [Review of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (2014), by J.R.R. Tolkien, eds. Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond.] "'And She Named Her Own Name': Being True to One's Word in Tolkien's Middle-earth," Tolkien Studies 2 (2005): 1–10. "Canute and Beorhtnoth," in A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger, edited by John D. Rateliff. Wayzata, Minnesota: The Gabbro Head, 2018: 335–358. "Contemporary Medieval Authors," Orcrist, no. 3 (co-published as Tolkien Journal, 4 no. 1; whole no. 11; 1969): 9–10, 15. [On T. H. White, C. S. Lewis, and Tolkien.] "The Critics, and Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis," Orcrist, no. 5 (co-published as Tolkien Journal, 4 no. 3; whole no. 14; 1970–71): 4–9. [Reviews of The Tolkien Relation (1968) by William Ready; Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings (1969) by Lin Carter; Good News from Tolkien's Middle Earth [sic] (1970), by Gracia Fay Ellwood; Tolkien and the Critics (1968), edited by Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo; Shadows of Imagination (1969) ed. by Mark R. Hillegas; J.R.R. Tolkien (1969) by Catherine R. Stimpson; and several studies of C. S. Lewis.] "'Her Choice Was Made and Her Doom Appointed': Tragedy and Divine Comedy in the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen," in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder, ed. by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006: 317–329. "In Memoriam." Tolkien Studies 16 (2019): 3–4. [Obituary for Jared Lobdell. Unrelated piece to the Mythlore obituary; see below.] [End Page 14] "In Memoriam: Jared Lobdell," Mythlore 38 no. 1 (whole no. 135; Fall/Winter 2019): 41–42. "The Interlace and Professor Tolkien: Medieval Narrative Technique in The Lord of the Rings," Orcrist, no. 1 (1966–67): 26–49. [Revised, but omitting the appendices, as...