• May 1988

• Edited by Mike Percival

• ISSN 0306-8781

• Reprinted by kind permission of The Tolkien Society - all rights reserved.

Contents

• Cover - "The Lonely Mountain" - Maggie Percival

• 2 - Contents

• 3 - Editorial

• 4 - Behind Glass Doors - Anne Haward

• 5 - Announcements

• 9 - Reviews: Mike Percival, Alex Lewis, David Doughan, Gwyneth Morgan

• 12 - Tolkien Reconsidered, a talk by Humphrey Carpenter - Charles Noad

• 13 - "Dragon" - Lynda Channon

• 15 - "Smaug Descends on Dale" - Tom Sherry

• 16 - A Tower in Beleriand, a talk by Guy Gavriel Kay - Charles Noad

• 18 - "Battle of the Pelennor Fields" - Philip Robson

• 19 - Tolk Folk

• 19 - Letters

• 21 - "Bard the Bowman" - Ley Holloway

• 23 - Jessica's Corner - Jessica Yates

• 25 - Anne's Allsorts - Anne Haward

• 26 - Small Press - Anne Haward

• 28 - Back Cover

Calligraphy

• Tony Curtis - p. 2, 3, 7, 19

• Walter Clarke - p. 5

• Amina Alyal - p. 6

• Julian Bradfield - p. 8

• Pierre Hennard - p. 9

• Johan Schimanski - p. 19

• Valerie Sutton - p. 25

• Steve Lines - p. 26

• Kirsty Beck, p. 28

Additional Artwork

• Walter Clarke - p. 3, 11, 22

• Tom Sherry - p. 27