Tolkien Studies seeks works of scholarly quality and depth. Substantial essays and shorter, "notes and documents" pieces are both welcome.

Articles submitted for Tolkien Studies will be anonymously referreed. Articles require a positive judgment from the Editors before being sent to reviewers, and articles that the Editors agreed upon have to receive a least one positive evaluation from an external referee in order to be published. In the cases of articles by individuals associated with the journal in any way, each article has to receive at least two positive evaluations from two different outside reviewers. All identifying information is removed from the articles before they are sent to the reviewers, and all reviewer comments are likewise anonymously conveyed to the authors of the articles. The Editors agree to be bound by the recommendations of the outside referees.

We hope to be able to inform authors of our publications decisions within three months of the date of submission, but this may not always be possible due to the difficulty of getting anonymous reviews of all submitted material.

Submissions should be double-spaced throughout and use parenthetical citations in the (Author page) form. A Works Cited page should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. Endnotes (not footnotes), should be used for expansion and explanation rather than simple citation.

All citations of Tolkien’s works should be made in parentheses in the text and should follow the “Conventions and Abbreviations” of Tolkien Studies. In particular, citations of The Lord of the Rings must follow the (Volume, Book, chapter, page) format. For example, (FR, II, vi, 348) indicates The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, chapter 6, page 348 in the revised edition.

Self-addressed, stamped envelopes should accompany all correspondence unless the author wishes to communicate via email and does not wish the hard-copy manuscript to be returned, in which case this requirement is waived.

Electronic submissions are preferred. These may be sent to the Tolkien Studies email address or to submissions editor Verlyn Flieger as attachments. Microsoft Word is the preferred word-processing program.

Prof. Verlyn Flieger

Department of English

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland 20742

Tolkien Studies

c/o Prof. Michael Drout

Wheaton College

East Main Street

Norton, MA 02766

Tolkien Studies

c/o Douglas A. Anderson

P.O. Box 493
Marcellus, MI 49067