Issue 1 · December 2009
Journal Issue 1
Daphne Castell on her interview with Tolkien, a primary-school Tolkien project, Jane Chance, Jef Murray, Arjan Kiel and Martin Romberg, edited by Colin Duriez.
The Journal
THE JOURNAL
The Festival in the Shire Journal discussed all things Tolkien, news, interviews, music and art relating to Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Middle-earth. Published online from 2009 to 2010 by Mark Faith and Festival Art and Books.
Magazine archive
Issues 1–10
Each issue opens in the original magazine layout, features, interviews and editorials as published at the time.
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Issue 2 · February 2010
Journal Issue 2
“Goblin Feet”, Jef Murray, Clyde S. Kilby on The Silmarillion, Corey Olsen’s Tolkien Professor column, and interviews with John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Tom Shippey, Rodney Matthews and Michael Hague.
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Issue 3 · March 2010
Journal Issue 3
Meeting Professor Tolkien, Leaf By Niggle, Born of Many Hopes, a review of Dimitra Fimi’s Tolkien, Race and Cultural History, and interviews with Verlyn Flieger, Fimi, Stephen Walsh and Michael Drout.
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Issue 4 · April 2010
Journal Issue 4
Tolkien’s Balrog and Peter Jackson, Sarehole Dreams, Smith of Wootton Major, Tim Tolkien, Alex Lewis, Douglas Anderson, Brian Sibley, Peter Pracownik, Nicola-Clare Lydon and Ruth Lacon.
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Issue 5 · May 2010
Journal Issue 5
Character development in The Hobbit, On Fairy-Stories, Moseley Bog, Corey Olsen, interviews with Simon Tolkien and Colin Duriez, and a preview of Aberystwyth.
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Issue 6 · June 2010
Journal Issue 6
Tom Bombadil as romantic hero, Farmer Giles of Ham, Christchurch Meadows, Edouard Klotcko, Sam Roads, and Verlyn Flieger & Douglas Anderson on On Fairy-Stories.
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Issue 7 · July 2010
Journal Issue 7
Tom Bombadil (part 2), romance in a Hobbit film, City of Still-Present Sorrow, Paul Raymond Gregory, Dimitra Fimi, The Epic Realm of Tolkien, Rick Wakeman and Marco Lo Muscio.
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Issue 8 · August 2010
Journal Issue 8
Tom Bombadil (part 3), Oxonmoot, crossword, Corey Olsen, Sue Wookey, Philip Smith, Melissa Ruth Arul and The Lay of Leithian.
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Issue 9 · September 2010
Journal Issue 9
Tolkien’s Places, violence in The Lord of the Rings, People and Places, Colin Duriez & Corey Olsen, Arda Reconstructed, The Green Book of Olwen Ellis and Festival in the Shire in pictures.
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Issue 10 · October 2010
Journal Issue 10
Merton College, Oxford (part 1), Festival in the Shire review, Simon Tolkien’s Inheritance, a Gollum poem and fiction by Jeremy Masters, the final free issue.