Introduction : why source criticism? / Tom Shippey
Source criticism : background and applications / E.L. Risden
Tolkien and source criticism : remarking and remaking / Jason Fisher
The stones and the book : Tolkien, Mesopotamia, and biblical mythopoeia / Nicholas Birns
Sea birds and morning stars : Ceyx, Alcyone, and the many metamorphoses of Eärendil and Elwing / Kristine Larsen
"Byzantium, new Rome!" : goths, langobards, and Byzantium in The lord of the rings / Miryam Libran-Moreno
The Rohirrim : "Anglo-Saxons on horseback" : an inquiry into Tolkien's use of sources / Thomas Honegger
William Caxton's The golden legend as a source for J.R.R Tolkien's The lord of the rings / Judy Ann Ford
She and Tolkien, revisited / John D. Rateliff
Reading John Buchan in search of J.R.R. Tolkien / Mark T. Hooker
Biography as source : niggles and notions / Diana Pavlac Glyer and Josh B. Long.