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“The Fairy Tale Structure of Beowulf”, Notes and Queries 16 (1969), 2‑11

“Listening to the Nightingale”, Comparative Literature 22 (1970), 46‑60

“The Uses of Chivalry: Erec and Gawain”, Modern Language Review 66 (1971), 241‑50

 ‡  “Maxims in Old English Narrative: literary art or traditional wisdom?”, in Oral Tradition, Literary Tradition: a Symposium, ed. Hans Bekker‑Nielsen, Odense University Press, Odense, 1977, 28‑46

Five chapters on "Old English Literature" for Year's Work in English Studies, Vols. 56‑60, i.e. 1977 (for 1975) to 1981 (for 1979) inclusive.

“Wealth and Wisdom in King Alfred’s Preface to the Pastoral Care”, English Historical Review 94 (1979), 346‑55 

“A Missing Army: some doubts about the Alfredian Chronicle”, In Geardagum 4 (1982), 41‑55 [revised and reprinted in Anglo-Saxon 1 (2008), 219-38]

 ‡  “Approaches to Truth in Old English Poetry”, University of Leeds Review 25 (1982), 171‑89 (inaugural lecture)

“Boar and Badger: an Old English Heroic Antithesis?”, Leeds Studies in English 16 (1985), 220‑39

 ‡  “Breton Lais and Modern Fantasies”, in Studies in Medieval English Romance, ed. D S Brewer, 1988, 69‑91. 2nd enlarged ed., paperback version, 1989

“Introduction” to Poets and Prophets : Selected Medieval Essays of G.T. Shepherd, ed. TAS and John Pickles, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 1991, vii-xvii

“Winchester in the Anglo-Saxon Period and After”, in Winchester : History and Literature, ed. Simon Barker, King Alfred’s College, Winchester, 1992, 1-21

“Principles of Conversation in Beowulfian Speech”, in Techniques of Description : a festschrift for Malcolm Coulthard, ed. John M. Sinclair et al., London and New York, 1993, 109-26

 ‡  “Old English Poetry : the Prospects for Literary History”, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference of SELIM (Spanish Society for English Medieval Language and Literature, ed. Antonio Leon Sendra, Cordoba, 1993, 164-79. [Translated into Spanish as “Poesía en inglés antiguo: prospectos de historia literaria”, Acta Poetica (Mexico) 16 (1995) 183-214]

 ‡  “Recent Writing in Old English” (review article), Aestel 1 (1993), 1-24

 ‡  “Miscomprehension and Re-Interpretation in Old and Early Middle English Proverb Collections”, in ScriptOralia58 (1994), Text und Zeittiefe, ed. Hildegard F.C. Tristram, 293-311

 ‡  “Local Patriotism and the Early Interpretation of Beowulf”, in Traditions and Innovations: essays presented to Andreas Haarder, ed. Flemming G. Andersen and Lars Ole Sauerberg, Odense, Denmark, 1994, 303-18

“The Wanderer and The Seafarer as Wisdom Poetry”, in Companion to Old English Poetry, ed. Henk Aertsen and Rolf H. Bremmer, Amsterdam, 1994, 145-58

 ‡  “Speech and the Unspoken in Hamthismal”, in Prosody and Poetics: essays in honor of Constance Hieatt, ed. T.J. Toswell, U. of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1995, 180-96

 ‡  “Robin Hood: a Legend in Text, Film and Popular Consciousness”, ScriptOralia84 (1996), 409-23 [also (Re)Oralisierung, ed. Hildegard F.C. Tristram (Tübingen)]

 ‡  “Chaucer’s Arithmetical Mentality and The Book of the Duchess”, Chaucer Review 31 (1996), 184-200

“Spruchdichtung”, in Lexikon des Mittelalters, 9 vols (Munich: LexMA Verlag, 1995?), 7?: ??

“Beowulf: Structure and Unity”, in A Beowulf Handbook, ed. Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1997, 149-74

“Grim Word-Play: Wisdom and Folly in Anglo-Saxon Humor”, in Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature, ed. Jonathan Wilcox, Boydell and Brewer: Cambridge, 2000, 33-48

 ‡  “The Tale of Gamelyn: Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre”, in The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance, ed. Ad Putter and Jane Gilbert, Longman: London, 2000, 78-96

 ‡  “Hell, Heaven, and the Failures of Genesis B”, in Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic, ed Loren C. Gruber et al, Edwin Mellen: Lewiston NY & Lampeter, 2000, 151-76

“Forord” to Andreas Haarder, Sangen om Bjovulf, 2nd edn. (Copenhagen, 2001)

 ‡  “Wicked Queens and Cousin Strategies in Beowulf and Elsewhere”, in the new electronic journal Heroic Age, 2002

 ‡  “Bibliophobia: Hatred of the Book in the Middle Ages”, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2001 [This is the printed version of the two Matthews lectures given by me in 1999. One is on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the other on poems from Harley MS 2253]

“Preface” to Gwendolyn Morgan, The Harp and the Cross: Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Imitative Translation (Edwin Mellen: Lewiston NY & Lampeter, 2001)

“Preface” to Martin Arnold, The Post-Classical Icelandic Family Saga (Edwin Mellen: Lewiston NY & Lampeter, 2003), iii-viii.

 ‡  “Bilingualism and Betrayal in Chaucer’s Summoner’s Tale”, in Speaking in the Medieval World, ed Jean Godsall-Myers (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003), 125-44

 ‡  “The Merow(ich)ingian Again: damnatio memoriae and the usus scholarum”, in Latin Learning and English Lore: studies in Anglo-Saxon literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. K. O’Brien O’Keeffe and Andy Orchard, 2 vols (Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2005), 1: 389-406

 ‡  “Afterword” to Beowulf and Lejre, ed. John D. Niles (MRTS: Tempe, AZ, 2006), 469-79

“Chaucer”, in Literary Genius, ed. Joseph Epstein (Paul Dry Books: Philadephia, 2007), 9-15

 ‡  “Juchen Knoop”, ANQ 95/4 (2007), 46-49

Five entries in Chris Snyder ed., Early Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 2 vols., Palgrave 2008 [on The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Old English; Thegnage; The Wanderer; wergild]

“Klaeber’s BeowulfEighty Years On: A Triumph for a Triumvirate”, JEGP (2009), 360-76

“Towards an Interrogation of Vatnsdæla”, Wawnarstræti, Reykjavik: Mette Magnussen, 2009, 68-71

 ‡  “The Fall of King Hæthcyn, or Mimesis 4A: the chapter Auerbach never wrote”, in John M. Hill, ed., On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English Poems, Toronto: U Toronto Press, 2010, 247-65 

 ‡  “Proverbs and Proverbiousness in Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða”, in The Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark, ed James Weldon and Robin Waugh, Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, MI, 2010, 127-41

 ‡  “The Hrolfs saga Kraka and the Legend of Lejre”, in Martin Arnold and Alison Finlay, eds., Making History: Studies in the Fornaldarsögur. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2010, 17-32.

 ‡  Phallic, secular and other aggressions in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and their analogs”, written 2010, but publication as conference paper then canceled

“Family Drama in the Middle English Breton Lays”, in “Li premerains vers”: Essays in Honor of Keith Busby. Ed. Catherine M. Jones and Logan E. Whalen. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011, 417-31.

“Foreword” to Andrew C. Troup. The Relative Clause in Old English, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2010, iii-vi.

“Foreword” to Michael S.  Nagy, The Alliterative Tradition in Early Middle English Poetry: Political Complaint and Social Analysis in “The Song of the Husbandman” and Beyond. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2011, i-v.

“Foreword” to Beowulf and other Old English Poems, ed. and trans. Craig Williamson. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania Press, 2011, ix-xxvi.

“The Well-Spoken Saint: Speech and Script in the Old English Andreas”, in Communicative Spaces, Variation Contact and Change: Papers presented to Ursula Schaefer, ed. Claudia Lange, Beatrix Weber and Göran Wolf, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2013, 39-53.

 ‡  “Names in Beowulfand Anglo-Saxon England”, in The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014, 58-78

“Foreword” to Craig Williamson, trans., The Complete Old English Poems; an Anglo-Saxon Legacy, Pittsburgh: U Pennsylvania Press, 2017, xv-li

“Beowulf Studies from Tolkien to Fulk”, in Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey. Cambridge: DS Brewer, 2016, 392-414.

“Germanic Mythology” in Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe, ed. Joep Leerssen, Amsterdam: U Amsterdam Press, 2018, vol. II: 1015-20

“Foreword: Awareness of Immanence”, to Literary Speech Acts of the Medieval North: essays inspired by the work of T.A. Shippey, edited by Eric Bryan and Lex Ames (Phoenix. AZ: ACMRS), 2020

“Goths and Huns: the rediscovery of the Northern cultures in the nineteenth century”, in The Medieval Legacy: a Symposium, ed.Andreas Haarder, Odense University Press, Odense, 1982, 51‑69

“Medievalism in the Modern World: Introductory Perspectives”, in Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman, ed. Richard Utz and TAS, Brepols, Turnhout, 1999, 1-13 [co-authored TAS and Utz]

“‘The Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrog’: A Study in Sensibilities”, in Medievalism in the Modern World, ed. Utz and TAS, 155-72.

“The undeveloped image: Anglo-Saxon in popular consciousness from Turner to Tolkien”, in Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg, CUP: Cambridge, 2000, 215-36

 ‡  “Grimm’s Law: how one man revolutionised the humanities”, in Times Lit Supplement, Nov. 7th, 2003, 14-15

 ‡  “Fuqua’s King Arthur: More Myth-making in America”, Exemplariaweb-cluster on medieval movies: in print, Exemplaria 19/2 (Summer 2007), 310-26

 ‡  “Response to three papers on ‘Philology, whence and whither?’ from Kalamazoo 2002”, Heroic Age (online journal), issue 11 (October 2007), www.heroicage.org/issues/11/toc.php

 ‡  “The Case of Beowulf”, in Dirk Van Hulle and Joep Leerssen, eds., Editing the Nation’s Memory: Textual Scholarship and Nation-Building in 19th-Century Europe, European Studies 26 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008), 223-39

“Medievalisms and why they matter”, in Defining Medievalism(s), ed Karl Fugelso, Studies in Medievalism 17 (2008), 45-54

 ‡  “Historical Fiction and the Post-Imperial Arthur”, in Helen Fulton ed., A Companion to Arthurian Literature (Maldon, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 449-62

 ‡  “El Cid: Defeat of the Crescentade”, in Nick Haydock and Ed Risden, eds., Hollywood and the Holy Land (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 169-85

 ‡  “Kemble, Beowulf, and the Schleswig-Holstein question”, in The Kemble Lectures on Anglo-Saxon Studies, ed. Alice Jorgensen et al, for 2007 (Dublin, School of English, Trinity College, 2009), 64-80.

“Philological Triumphs, Ideological Failures”, in Linguistics, Ideology and the Discourse of Linguistic Nationalism, ed. Ursula Schaefer, Göran Wolf and Claudia Lange (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2010), 97-115. 

“Foreword” to Revisiting the Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend”, ed. Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington, New York: Routledge, 2013, xiii-xix.

“Writing into the Gap: Tolkien’s Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún”, in Revisiting the Poetic Edda above, 238-57 [a shortened version of the long review-article cited under “Articles on Tolkien” below].

“Foreword: Germania, German(ic), and the Dangerous Applications of Philology”, in Germania Remembered 1500-2009: Commemorating and Inventing a Germanic Past, ed. Christina Lee and Nicola McLelland, AMRTS: Tempe, AZ, 2013, xiii-xxv

“Modernity”, in Medievalism: Key Critical Terms, ed. Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014, 149-55

 ‡  “Medievalism to the Max: the Case of Alfred(o León) Duggan”, in Year’s Work in Medievalism 31 (2016): a festschrift for Gwendolyn Morgan, 170-80, available at https://sites.google.com/site/theyearsworkinmedievalism/all-issues/31-2016

“The Heirs of Lönnrot: from Longfellow to Tolkien”, in Northern Myths, Modern Identities, ed. Simon Halink, Leiden: Brill, 2019, 159-78

“Finding Oneself within Germania: K V Müllenhoff’s Reading of Widsith”, in Networks, Narratives and Nations: essays for Joep Leerssen, ed. Marjet Brolsma et al, Amsterdam UP, 2022, 203-10

“Foreword: The Porous Boundaries of Medievalism” to Transforming Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, ed. Christopher Crocker and Dustin Geeraert, D.S. Brewer, Cambridge, 2023, xi-xiv

“Epic and Romance, Lay and Ballad: W.P. Ker’s Pivotal Role in the History of Scholarship”, in Epic and Romance: A guide to medieval English literature, ed. Len Neidorf and Yang Liu, Nanjing: Nanjing UP, forthcoming

“Breaking a Culture: a theme in science fiction”, Alta 9 (1969), 123‑32

“Science Fiction and the Idea of History”, Foundation 4 (1973), 4‑20 [translated into French as “L’Histoire dans la science fiction”, Change, ed. Gérard Klein and Daniel Riche, Paris, 1981] 

“The Golden Bough and the Incorporation of Magic”, Foundation 12 (1977), 119‑34

“The Magic Art and the Evolution of Words”, Mosaic 10 (1977), 148‑63

“The Cold War in Science Fiction, 1940‑60”, in Science Fiction: a critical guide, ed. P. Parrinder, Longman, London, 1979, 90‑109. [Adopted as part of the Open University manual in Social Studies, 1981]

“Introduction” to William Morris, The Wood Beyond the World, Oxford U.P., London, 1980

“Variations on Newspeak: the Open Question of Nineteen Eighty‑Four”, in Storm Warnings, ed. George Slusser et al. Southern Illinois U.P., 1987, 172‑93

“Learning to Read Science Fiction”, in Fictional Space: essays on contemporary science fiction (1990 volume of Essays and Studies for the English Association), ed. TAS, Blackwell’s, Oxford, 1991,1-35 [translated into Danish by Niels Dalgaard as “At laere for at laese science fiction”, Proxima 57 (1992), 18-33; and into Swedish by Jerry Määttä in Brott, kärlek, främmande världar: Texter om populärlitteratur (“Crime, Love, and Strange [New] Worlds: Texts on Popular Fiction”), ed. Jerry Määttä and Dag Hedman (Lund: Studentlitteratur), forthcoming 2014.]

“The Fall of America in Science Fiction”, in Fictional Space, ed. TAS, 96-127

“Introduction” to The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, Oxford U.P., London and New York, 1992, paperback edition 1993, ix-xxvi

“Introduction” to The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, Oxford U.P., London and New York, 1994, pb edition 1995, ix-xxii

“Semiotic Ghosts and Ghostliness in the Work of Bruce Sterling”, in Fiction 2000 : cyberpunk and the future of narrative, ed. TAS and George Slusser, Univ. of Georgia Press, Athens, 1993, 208-20

“Introduction” to Brian Aldiss, Helliconia Spring, Easton Press edition, 1993, v-viii

“Introduction” to Gene Wolfe, Shadow of the Torturer, Easton Press edition

“The critique of America in contemporary science fiction”, Foundation 61 (1994) 36-49. [Reprinted in File: a literary journal (Groningen, Holland) 3/2 (1994), 33-43; and in Interzone88(?) (1994)]

“Alternate Historians: Newt, Kingers, Harry and Me”, in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 8 / 1 (1997), 15-33

“Skeptical Speculation and Back to Methuselah” in Milton T. Wolf ed., Shaw and Science Fiction [= Shaw17 (1997)], 199-213

 ‡  “Introduction” to Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 4 vols (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1996), xiii - xix.

“Fantasy Fiction”, in Margaret Drabble ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature(Oxford: OUP, 1998), 336-7

“‘People are Plastic’: Jack Vance and the Dilemma of Cultural Relativism”, in Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography, ed. Arthur Cunningham (British Library Publications: London, 2000), 71-88. [[Trans. into German as “Menschen sind formbar: Jack Vance und das Dilemma des Kuturrelativismus”, in Andreas Irle ed., Jack Vance – Weltenschöpfer und Wortschmied(Bergneustadt-Hackenberg: Andreas Irle, 2016), 273-97.]

“Vorwort” [in German] to Anthony Burgess, Clockwork Orange [new German translation] (Munich: Heyne Verlag, 2000), 5-14

“Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: the Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction”, in Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Alan Sandison and Robert Dingley (New York: Palgrave Press, 2000), 168-83

“Fantasy Fiction”, in The Good Fiction Guide, ed Jane Rogers (Oxford: OUP, 2001), 43-6 [also some 10-12 short biographies]

“Literary Gatekeepers and the Fabril Tradition”, in Science Fiction: Canonization, Marginalization and the Academy, ed. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser (Greenwood Press, 2001), 7-23, repr. With “Afterword” in Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences, ed. Gregory Benford, Gary Westfahl, Howard J. Hendrix and Joseph D. Miller (McFarland: Jefferson, NC, 2018), 178-94

“Kingsley Amis’s Science Fiction and the Problems of Genre”, in Essays on Classic and Iconoclastic and Alternate Science Fiction, ed Edgar Chapman and Carl Yoke (Edwin Mellen: Lewiston NY & Lampeter, 2003), 189-208.

 ‡  “Rewriting the Core: Transformations of the Fairy-Tale in Modern Feminist Writing”, in A Companion to the Fairy-Tale, ed. Anna Chaudhri and Hilda Ellis-Davidson (Boydell & Brewer, 2003), 249-73.

“Hard Reading: the Challenges of Science Fiction”, in David Seed, ed., A Companion to Science Fiction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 11-26

“Imagined Cathedrals: Retelling Myth in the Twentieth Century”, in Myth in North-west Europe, ed. Stephen Glosecki (MRTS: Tempe, AZ, 2007), 307-32.

 ‡  “New Learning and New Ignorance: Magia, Goeteia and the Inklings”, in Myth and Magic: Art According to the Inklings, ed. Eduardo Segura and Thomas Honegger (Walking Tree Press: Zurich and Berne, 2007), 21-46 

“Liminality and the Everyday in Lilith”, in Lucas D. Harriman ed., Lilith in a New Light (McFarland: Jefferson, NC and London, 2008), 15-20

 ‡  “Screwtape and the Philological Arm: Lewis on Verbicide”, in Truths Breathed through Silver: the Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy of the Inklings, ed. Jonathan Himes et al (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), 110-22

 ‡  “Introduction” to Flights of Eagles: Selected Fiction of James Blish, Vol. 2, ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA, NESFA Press, 2009), 9-28

 ‡  “The Ransom Trilogy and the Discovery of Myth”, in Rob McSwain and Michael Ward, eds., Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis (Cambridge: CUP, 2010), 237-50

“Thresholds, Polders and Crosshatches in The Merlin Codex”, in The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock: Critical Essays on his Fiction, ed. Donald E.Morse and Kalman Matolcsy, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011, 165-76

“Jack Vance: il ottimo fabbro”, in From Peterborough to Faery: the poetics and mechanics of secondary world, essays in honour of Allan G. Turner’s 65th birthday, ed. Thomas Honegger and Dirk Vanderbeke, Zurich and Bern: Walking Tree Press, 2014, 57-73

 ‡  “The Lewis Diaries: Lewis and the English Faculty in the 1920s”, in C.S. Lewis and his Circle: Essays and memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society”, ed. Roger White, Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe, Oxford and New York: OUP, 2014, 135-49

“The American Fantasy Tradition”. Gramarye : issue 6, Winter 2014, 18-33.

“The fornaldarsögur in modern fantasy writing”, in The Legendary Legacy: Transmission and reception of the fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda, ed. Matthew Driscoll et al, Odense: UP Southern Denmark, 2018, 377-98

“Vorwort” [in German] to H.G. Wells, Der Unsichtbare, trans. Jan Enseling (Frankfurt: Mantikore Verlag, 2018)

“The Faërie World of Michael Swanwick”, in Sub-creating Arda: world-building in Tolkien’s work, its precursors and legacies, ed. Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger, Zurich and Jena: Walking Tree Press, 2019, 417-29

“Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings”, in J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Story-Teller: Essays in Memoriam, eds. M. Salu and R. T. Farrell, Cornell U.P., Ithaca, 1979, 286‑316 [Reprinted in Twentieth Century British Literature, Chelsea House, N.Y., 1987]

“Tolkien as a Post-War Writer”, in Scholarship and Fantasy :The Tolkien Phenomenon, ed. Keith J. Battarbee, U. of Turku, Finland, 1993, 217-36. [Reprinted in Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, 1992 [also Mythlore80 (1995) and Mallorn 30 (1995)], ed. Patricia Reynolds and Glen H. Goodknight, Mythopoeic Press, 1995, 84-93. Trans. Into Italian as “Tolkien: scrittore post-bellico,” in Terra di mezzo 5 (1997), 4-15.]

“Tolkien and the Gawain-poet”, in Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference (see above), 213-20.

“A Look at Exodusand Finn and Hengest”, Arda 3 (1982-3), 72-80 [Swedish summary, 80-82]

“The Clerkes Compleinte : Commentary and Translation”, Arda 4 (1984), 3-8 [Text and Note by Anders Stenström, 1-3, Swedish summary of whole, 8-10]

“Long Evolution: The History of Middle-earth and its Merits”, Arda 7 (1987), 18-39 [Swedish summary, 40-44]

Nils-Ivar Agoy, “An Interview with Tom Shippey”, Angerthas 2 (1992), 27-49

“Tolkien and ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth’”, in Leaves from the Tree : J.R.R. Tolkien’s Shorter Fiction, Tolkien Society : London, 1991, 5-16 [translated into Italian by Francesco Sardi, from Roots and Branches, in Tolkien, Il Ritorno di B figlio di B, ed. Wu Ming 4, Milan: RCS Libri, 69-95]

“Heroes and Heroism : Tolkien’s Problems, Tolkien’s Solutions”, Lembas Extra 1991, 5-17

“Tolkien and the Problem of Depth”, LE (1991), 51-5

“Noblesse Oblige : Images of Class in Tolkien”, LE (1993-4), 27-43 [Italian translation by Federico Guglielmi online at http://www.jrrtolkien.it/2012/03/19/i-saggi-dellarst-noblesse-oblige-di-tom-shippey/, also in Difendere la Terra di Mezzo, ed. Wu Ming 4, Bologna: Odoya Press, 2014, as “Noblesse oblige: immagini di classe in Tolkien”, 219-40 ]

“Grimm, Grundtvig, Tolkien: nationalisms and the Invention of Mythologies”, in The Ways of Creative Mythologies: Imagined Worlds and their Makers, ed Maria Kuteeva, The Tolkien Society: Telford, 7-17 [to be reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism: N.F.S Grundtvig, ed. Lawrence Trudeau, forthcoming 2018]

“Inspiration and Invention, or, Where Tolkien Got Stuck” (1980), in Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees: 25 Years of Speeches at the Tolkien Society’s Annual Dinners, Vol 1, ed. Helen Armstrong (Tolkien Society, 1997), 6-30

“…I thought of the incident at Zeebrugge, which nobody wrote about at all” (1983), in Digging Potatoes, ed Armstrong, 31-52

“Orcs, Wraiths, Wights: Tolkien’s Images of Evil”, in J.R.R. Tolkien and his Literary Resonances: views of Middle-earth, ed. George Clark and Dan Timmons (Greenwood Press, 2000), 183-98

“Allegory versus Bounce: Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major”, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 12/2 (2001), 186-200 [an exchange with Verlyn Flieger: my part is 191-200]

“J.R.R. Tolkien”, in New Dictionary of National Biography

 ‡  “From Page to Screen: Tolkien and Peter Jackson”, World Literature Today, 3:2 (July - Sept. 2003), 69-72

“Foreword” to new edition of Jared Lobdell, ed., A Tolkien Compass (Peru, Ill.: Open Court, 2003), vii-xi

 ‡  “Light-Elves, Dark-Elves, and Others: Tolkien’s Elvish Problem”, in Tolkien Studies 1 (2004), 7-22 [trans into Polish by T.A. Sylwanowicz in Aiglos 17 (late 2012), 5-24]

 ‡  “Indexing and Poetry in The Lord of the Rings”, Lembas-extra 2004 (De Tolkienwinkel: Leiden), 66-74

“Tolkien and the Appeal of the Pagan: Edda and Kalevala”, in Tolkien and the Invention of Myth, ed. Jane Chance (Louisville: UP Kentucky, 2004), 145-61

“Another Road to Middle-earth: Jackson’s Movie Trilogy”, in Understanding the Lord of the Rings: the best of Tolkien criticism, ed Rose A. Zimbardo and Neil D. Isaacs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 233-54

“History in Words: Tolkien’s Ruling Passion”, in The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder, ed. Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, Marquette UP: Milwaukee, 2006, 25-39

“Afterword” to Matt Dickerson and Jonathan Evans, Ents, Elves and Eriador, Louisville, KY: U Kentucky Press, 2006), 269-71

Some fourteen entries in The Tolkien Encyclopedia, ed. Michael C. Drout (Routledge: London and New York, 2007 [on Alliterative verse by Tolkien; John Buchan; Cruces in medieval literature; Ylfe, Alfar, Elves; Germanic mythology; Haigh’s Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect; T’s influence on 20th century literature; C.S. Lewis; The Owl and the Nightingale; Uncollected Poems; Poems by T in other languages [asterisk-poems]; Old Norse language; Scholars of medieval literature; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]

“Tolkien, medievalism, and the philological tradition”, in Bells Chiming from the Past: Cultural and Linguistic Studies on Early English, ed. Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel and Begona Crespo-Garcia, Costerus NS 174 (Amsterdam and NY: Rodopi, 2007), 265-79

Five entries on Tolkien Estate website [on T’s scholarly editions; philology; The Lord of the Rings; SGGK, Pearl, Sir Orfeo; The Monsters and the Critics and other essays]

“Introduction” to Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm (London: HarperCollins, 2008), ix-xxviii

“‘A Fund of Wise Sayings’: Proverbiality in Tolkien,” in The Ring Goes Ever On: Aston University 2005 Conference Proceedings, 2 vols., ed. Sarah Wells. Coventry: Tolkien Society, 2009, II: 279-86.

 ‡  “Tolkien’s development as a writer of alliterative poetry in modern English”,  in Lembas-extra 2009: Tolkien in Poetry and Song, ed. Cecile van Zon. Leiden: Tolkien Genootschap Unquendor, 2009, 64-75. [Updated and reprinted in Tolkien’s Poetry, ed Julian Eilmann and Allan Turner, Walking Tree Press, 2013, 11-28]

“Tolkien’s Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún”, Tolkien Studies 7 (2010), 291-324

“Tolkien e la tessitura degli eventi: La filosofia della providenza ne ‘Il signore degli annelli’”, L’ Osservatore Romano, 27 May 2010, 5

“Tolkien tra Filosofia e Filologia”, a dialogue with Franco Manni, in Tolkien e la Filosofia, ed Roberto Arduini e Claudio Testi (Genoa and Milan: Marietti, 2011), 13-66 [TAS 14-20, 24-28, 37-41, 50-53, 54-66][Translated into English as “Tolkien between Philosophy and Philology”, in Tolkien and Philosophy, 21-71, TAS 22-26, 30-33, 41-44, 51-54, 55-66]

“Introduction: Why Source Criticism?”, in Tolkien and the Study of his Sources, ed. Jason Fisher, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011, 7-16

 ‡  “The ancestors of the hobbits: strange creatures in English folklore”, in Lembas-extra 2011, ed. Cecile van Zon (Tolkien Genootschap Unquendor), 97-106

 ‡  Tolkien’s two views of Beowulf, one hailed the other ignored: but did we get this right?” published online in Scholars’ Forum, http://www.lotrplaza.com/showthread.php?18483

 ‡  “Trees, Chainsaws, and Visions of Paradise in Tolkien”, trans. as “Arbres, tronçonneuses, et visions du paradis” in L’Arc et le Heaume, Fretin: Association Tolkiendil, 2012, 59-73, and on the Tolkiendil website; and as "Árboles, motosierras y visiones del paraíso" in JRR Tolkien y la Tierra Media, ed. Martin Simonsen and José R. Montejano, Alwars: Aces de Candamo, 2021, 185-207

“Goths and Romans in Tolkien’s Imagination”, in The Forest and the City, ed. Helen C. O’Briain and Gerard Hynes, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013, 19-32

“Tolkien as Editor”, in A Companion to J R R Tolkien, ed. Stuart Lee, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, 41-55, updated 2nd edition 2021

“Foreword” to Laughter in Middle-earth, ed. T. Honegger and Maureen F. Mann, Walking Tree Press: Zurich and Bern, 2016, 1-6

“The Curious Case of Denethor and the Palantír Once More”, Mallorn 57 (Winter 2016), 6-9

“Le avventure di Tom Bombadil”, in All’ ombra del Signore degli Anelli: Le opera minori di J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Stefano Giorgianni (Verona: Delmiglio Editore, 2016), 151-60

“Afterword: On Coincidence, and Harmony”, to Claudio Testi, Pagan Saints in Middle-earth, Walking Tree Press: Zurich and Jena, 2019, 141-5

“Tolkien and ‘that noble northern spirit’”, in Tolkien, Maker of Middle-earth, ed. Catherine McIlwaine, Bodleian Library: Oxford, 2018, 58-69.

 ‡  “A Steep Learning Curve: Tolkien and the British Army on the Somme”, by TAS and John Bourne, in “Something Has Gone Crack”: New Perspectives on JRRT and the Great War, ed. Janet Brennan Croft and Annika Röttinger, Walking Tress Press; Zurich and Jena, 2019, 3-25

“William Morris and Tolkien: Some Unexpected Connections”, in Tolkien and the Classics, ed. Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri, Claudio Testi, Zurich and Jena: Walking Tree Press, 2019, 229-45

“Foreword” to Oronzo Cilli, Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist (Luna Press: Edinburgh, 2019), xi-xvi

“’King Sheave’ and ‘the Lost Road’”, forthcoming in The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien, ed Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine, Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022, 166-80

“Tolkien’s Legacy”, forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 2019 Tolkien Society Conference, ed. Shaun Gunner

“Commentary on two poems from Scientific American by Updike and Auden”, Alta: The University of Birmingham Review 11 (1970), 284‑89

“Borrowing and Independence in Kipling’s ‘Muhammad Din’”, MLR. 67 (1972), 264‑7

“Framing and Distancing in Kipling’s ‘The Man who would be King’”, Journal of Narrative Technique2 (1972), 75‑87. [Co-authored with M. Short, now editor of Language and Literature]

“From Prophecy to Prediction : the Traps of Space and Time”, Futures (June 1977), 234-40

“On Reviewing”, University of Leeds School of English Research Review, 1985, 1-4

“Germanen, Deutsche, Teutonen in englischsprachiger Geistesgeschichte”, in Zur Geschichte der Gleichung “germanisch / deutsch”, ed Heinrich Beck et al (de Gruyter: Berlin and New York, 2004), 325-41

“The Master-Man Pairing in Modern British Popular Literature”, in Paare und Paarungen: festschrift Werner Wunderlich, ed Ulrich Müller and Margarete Springeth (Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag, 2004), 354-61

“The Protean Allegory of Matter in The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, Allegorica: Traditions and Infuences in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (in memory of Thomas Moisan) 27 (2011): 20-30

“Rudyard Kipling”, in Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of William Calin. Ed. Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery. Print: Kalamazoo, MI: Studies in Medievalism, 2011. Online: forthcoming.

Entries in Literary Wonderlands, ed. Laura Miller. NY: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2016. 15 entries on The Odyssey (18-21, Metamorphoses (22-7), The 1001 Nights (30-33), The Mabinogion (34-5), The Prose Edda (36-9), The Divine Comedy (40-43), Le Morte D’Arthur (44-7), Orlando Furioso (48-51),Utopia (52-3), The Faerie Queene (54-7), The Tempest (64-7), A Voyage to the Moon (68-9), Gulliver’s Travels (74-7), The Ring of the Nibelung (96-9), The Lord of the Rings (188-91)