Arden R. Smith

Arden Ray Smith (January 4, 1966) is a member of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship and holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous articles relating to the languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien. He was a columnist and editor of Vinyar Tengwar, for which he wrote the popular column "Transitions in Translations", in which odd elements in translations of Tolkien's work were described and commented upon.^[1]

On July 1, 2012, Smith was appointed to the Volapük Academy by the Cifal, Brian R. Bishop, for his work with conlangs in general and provision of internet resources for the constructed language Volapük in particular.^[2]

Bibliography

• Vinyar Tengwar
  • (various issues)
• Parma Eldalamberon
  • (various issues)
• 1995: Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
  • "A Mythology for England" (with Carl F. Hostetter)
• 1997: Hands of the Healer
  • (linguistic contribution)
• 2000: SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol. 17
  • "Tolkien and Esperanto" (with Patrick H. Wynne)
• 2000: Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
  • "Certhas, Skirditaila, Futhark: A Feigned History of Runic Origins"
• 2001: Other Hands 31/32
  • (linguistic contribution)
• 2003: Tolkien in Translation
  • "The Treatment of Names in Esperanto Translations of Tolkien's Works"
• 2006: Tolkien Studies: Vol. 3
  • "Translating Tolkien: Philological Elements in 'The Lord of the Rings' (review)", a review of Allan Turner's book
• 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
  • (various entries)
• 2006: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder
  • "Tolkienian Gothic"

References

• v
• t
• e

J. R. R. Tolkien

• • Bibliography
  • Letters

Poetry
and songs

• Songs for the Philologists (1936)
  • "Bagme Bloma"
• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953)
• "A Walking Song" (1954)
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
  • "Errantry"
  • "Fastitocalon"
  • "The Sea-Bell"
  • "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late"
• The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
• Bilbo's Last Song (1974)
• List of Tolkien's alliterative verse

Fiction

• The Hobbit (1937)
• "Leaf by Niggle" (1947)
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)
• Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
• The Lord of the Rings:
  • The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
  • The Two Towers (1954)
  • The Return of the King (1955)
• Tree and Leaf (1964)
• The Tolkien Reader (1966)
• Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous
fiction

• The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
• The Silmarillion (1977)
• Unfinished Tales (1980)
• Mr. Bliss (1982)
• The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996)
  • The Book of Lost Tales
  • The Lays of Beleriand
  • The Shaping of Middle-earth
  • The Lost Road and Other Writings
  • The History of The Lord of the Rings
  • Morgoth's Ring
  • The War of the Jewels
  • The Peoples of Middle-earth
• Roverandom (1998)
• The Children of Húrin (2007)
• The History of The Hobbit (2007)
• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)
• The Fall of Arthur (2013)
• The Story of Kullervo (2015)
• Beren and Lúthien (2017)
• The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
• The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)
• The Fall of Númenor (2022)

Academic
works

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925)
• "The Devil's Coach Horses" (1925)
• "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" (1929)
• "Sigelwara Land" (1932–34)
• "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" (1934)
• "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936)
• "On Fairy-Stories" (1939)
• "On Translating Beowulf" (1940)
• Sir Orfeo (1944)
• Ancrene Wisse (1962)
• "English and Welsh" (1963)
• Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966)

Posthumous
academic

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (translations, 1975)
• Exodus (1981)
• Finn and Hengest (1982)
• The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983)
• Beowulf and the Critics (2002)
• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with "Sellic Spell" (2014)
• A Secret Vice (2016)

Scholars

Writers	Biographers Humphrey Carpenter John Garth Popular authors Lin Carter Robert Foster Glen GoodKnight J. E. A. Tyler
Christian	Stratford Caldecott Matthew T. Dickerson Peter Kreeft Joseph Pearce Fleming Rutledge Ralph C. Wood
Literary critics	Douglas A. Anderson Nicholas Birns Bradley J. Birzer David Bratman Janet Brennan Croft Patrick Curry Bradford Lee Eden Dimitra Fimi Jason Fisher Verlyn Flieger Michael Foster Wayne G. Hammond Randel Helms Thomas Honegger Charles A. Huttar Paul H. Kocher Stuart D. Lee Jared Lobdell John D. Rateliff Robin Anne Reid Christina Scull Amy H. Sturgis Richard C. West
Linguists	Anthony Appleyard Helge Fauskanger Carl F. Hostetter Tom Loback David Salo Arden R. Smith
Medievalists	Marjorie Burns Jane Chance Michael D. C. Drout Gergely Nagy Tom Shippey Elizabeth Solopova Sandra Ballif Straubhaar

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