This article analyzes the famous tenth-century Greek alchemical codex Marcianus graecus 299, and in particular its first quire, considering the structure and significance of the manuscript as a whole.

Tolkien modeled the relationship between his invented languages Quenya and Sindarin in part on that between Latin and Welsh.

Book review of The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 1; Quenya Verb Structure, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson and Arden R. Smith.

Book review of Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer (2019) by John M. Bowers. Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol9/iss1/3

Book review of Tolkien and Sanskrit (2016) by Mark T. Hooker.

Book review of A Secret Vice (2016) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.

A defence of the emendation of eorl to Eorle ‘Heruli’ in Beowulf 6a.

Neidorf (2017), The Transmission of Beowulf, synthesizes a variety of philological approaches to propose a new ‘lexemic theory’ of Anglo-Saxon scribal behaviour. In this response article, I build on Neidorf’s arguments, suggesting ways that his theory may be adapted to account for differences between the two scribes of the Beowulf manus…[Read more]

The variable operation of high vowel deletion in Old English has long been a point of difficulty, both descriptively – a prehistoric form like *hēafudu is attested variably as hēafudu , hēafdu , and hēafod – and theoretically. Recent work, especially by Bermúdez‐Otero (2005b) and Fulk (2010), has indicated that plural forms like hēafudu ar…[Read more]