The Inter-University Magazine

Vol. 8 isn't in the public domain yet, but should be soon I suppose.

Volume 8 no.1 is now viewable/downloadable (but, as has been mentioned in various places, is not the issue that contains Tolkien's poems).

https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora ... ora:86245#page/1/mode/1up

This volume (8.1) has been available for some time. I have contacted the university three times without reply so far. First was asking if they could confirm if they had Vol. 8, No. 2. That was in 2019. They have never replied to any of my queries.

It is possible that it's not a copyright problem, but simply they don't have it: also for the previous volumes they don't have all the issuess.

I wrote them last year and they didn't reply to me either. Maybe someone else is more lucky than us?

They responded to me, they do not have 8.2 (and are well aware of the notoriety of the issue).

Urulókë wrote:

They responded to me, they do not have 8.2 (and are well aware of the notoriety of the issue).

Thanks for the info Jeremy.

Alas, but thank you.

So what’s the deal with there being only four of six stanzas of The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel available? Are the four stanzas that we have all that exist on Tolkien’s preserved leaf of the poem (“p. 82”)? Or did Garth choose only to reprint four of the six stanzas in Tolkien and the Great War? If the latter, can someone reprint the complete poem from the preserved leaf that (presumably) Garth was working from and that is referred to multiple times in Wayne and Christina’s blog post here? Where is this thing?

For The University Catholic Review, the Saint Louis University Pius Library lists in its holdings v.1(1927–1928)–3(1929–1930) with the call number LC461 .U55 v.1–3 1927–1930. Balliol College, Oxford, has vol. 1 no. 3 (1928?), but that's probably too late. Radbound University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, shows vol. 1 (1927) – vol. 3 (1929) at call number Tz c 1783 in the Gymnasion. So, it looks like the St Louis University and Radbound University—according to Worldcat—have the only two potential copies. Most libraries provide copy services, sometimes free up to a certain page amount, sometimes for a reasonable charge.

It would probably be a good idea to check those, either to find the poems or to determine that they aren't in the The University Catholic Review. It's entirely possible that Tolkien submitted the poems to the editor(s) of the The Inter-University Magazine, and the name of the journal changed before they were published.