abbreviationsintroductiontranslationsIn de ban van de Ring: Old and New Fashions of a TranslationA Somewhat Bumpy Ride: Max Schuchart's Translation of the Poetry in The Fellowship of the RingJ.R.R. Tolkien, Translator of The Red Book: A Look at His Views, His Methods and His WorkThe Wise Woman's Gospel: Some Thoughts about 'The Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth' 65The Parentage of Gil-galad: A Textual HistoryHuman-Stories or Human Stories: Investigating a Remark in 'On Fairy Stories'Glorfindel's Body: The Fate of a Self-sacrificing ElfTolkien and some women authorsThe Image of the Maker: J.R.R. Tolkien and Dorothy SayersImmortality and the Death of Love: J.R.R. Tolkien and Simone de BeauvoirThe Name of the Tree – Mythopoeia and the Garden of Proserpina: J.R.R. Tolkien and A.S. Byatt'Jewish' Dwarves: Tolkien and Anti-Semitic StereotypingFanfiction as Criticism: The Possibilities of Fan-made StoriesCreating Free Agents: Wagner and Tolkien RevisitedsourcesFor almost four decades, Renée Vink, co-founder ofthe Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor and translatorof several of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, has been studyingthe Legendarium of Arda and writing about it. Amongher output are numerous contributions to the Society’smagazine, an increasing list of scholarly essays, andthe monograph Wagner and Tolkien: Mythmakers. Inaddition, she has edited several issues of Lembas Extra,Unquendor’s biennial magazine.This volume contains thirteen of her articles, focusing on various subjectsfrom translation, Elvish affairs, books by female authors with links to Tolkien’sworks, Jewish aspects of his Dwarves, fan-fiction, and last but not least, anotherWagnerian parallel. Nine of these, the oldest dating from the early 1990s,were published previously in various journals or conference proceedings. Theremaining four are new.Unquendor chairman since 2013, Jan van Breda, has provided an introductionto the volume:“The members of Unquendor have come to know Renée as aninsightful writer, a sharp thinker, and (if needs be)a fierce debater on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.”