A New Tolkien Essay

I was very pleased to hear yesterday evening that an essay I've been working on for a while has appeared in the Journal of Tolkien Research. I am on the board of JTR, so this could, admittedly, look a bit fishy, but we use blind peer review, so I'm taking legitimate pride in the piece. It's on-line here:

http://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol4/iss1/9