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Issue 1
Daphne Castell: An early fan who had a momentous interview with J.R.R. Tolkien | A Primary school think-tank for all things J.R.R. Tolkien | The Realms of Tolkien Daphne Castell (Illustrations by James Cawthorn) | A lifetime’s study of J.R.R. Tolkien: An interview with Jane Chance | An interview with Jef Murray | Editorial

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Issue 2
“Goblin Feet”, a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, Pieter Collier | Middle-earth as Muse, Jef Murray | Tolkien at work: A helping hand on The Silmarillion, Clyde S. Kilby | The Tolkien Professor: How to read Tolkien, Corey Olsen | “Here be dragons” interview with John Howe| “Discovering” rather than “inventing”: An interview with Ted Nasmith| The Shippey Interview, Corey Olsen| The artist as storyteller: Interview with Rodney Matthews | Casting Tolkien’s spell: The Journal interviews Tolkien artist Michael Hague | Editorial

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Issue 3

Meeting Professor Tolkien (and Tom Bombadil) Jodi Storer | The Tolkien Professor Leaf By Niggle Corey Olsen | Born of Many Hopes Chad Chisholm | A review of Dimitra Fimi’s Tolkien, Race and Cultural History Charles E. Noad | Interviews: Engaging with other worlds: An interview with Verlyn Flieger | Tolkien: British at heart? An interview with Dimitra Fimi | Imagined history: An interview with Stephen Walsh | Michael Drout Interview Corey Olsen

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Issue 4

Tolkien's Balrog, and Peter Jackson's Barry Livingstone | Sarehole Dreams (Tom Bombadil alive and well) Jodi Storer Smith of Wootton Major | Corey Olsen Inkling and Mapping the Inklings of Oxford: a reviewChad Chisholm Interview with Tim Tolkien Sarah-Jane Lynch | From a 'magical' place: Interview with Alex Lewis The Douglas Anderson interview Corey Olsen Celebrating Tolkien and popular media: Interview with Brian Sibley Narrowing the gap between artist and public: An interview with Peter Pracownik and Nicola-Clare Lydon Interview with Ruth Lacon

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Issue 5
Peter Kenny On Fairy-Stories| The Tolkien Professor|Corey Olsen|Moseley Bog Interview with Simon Tolkien|Interview with Colin Duriez

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Issue 8
Tom Bombadil A Romantic Hero For Our Times | The Tolkien Professor | Interview Philip Smith | Interview with Melissa Ruth Arul | The lay of Leithian or the Heroism of the Couple

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Issue 10
Merton College, Oxford

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Festival in the Shire Journal - the magazine discussing all things Tolkien. News, interviews, music and art relating to Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and other J.R.R. Tolkien stories