Tolkien, epic traditions, and golden age myths / Charles A. Huttar -- The hobbit / David Stevens and Carol D. Stevens -- Bilbo's adventures in wilderland : a larger landscape / William H. Green -- J.R.R. Tolkien and the true hero / George Clark -- The king under the mountain : Tolkien's children's story / Jane Chance -- The quests of Sam and Gollum for the happy life / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- Tolkien and the history of ideas / Brian Rosebury -- A mythology for Anglo-Saxon England / Michael D.C. Drout -- An unfinished symphony / Verlyn Flieger -- Skin-changing in more than one sense : the complexity of Beorn / Marjorie Burns -- The evidence of things not seen : critical mythology and The lord of the rings / John C. Hunter.