Special Issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research Co-edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen janet.b.croft@rutgers.edu; larsen@ccsu.edu Connections between any of the works of both creative geniuses are fair game for this interdisciplinary volume. Some possible topics include: world-building, horror and the monstrous, critiques of heroism, women’s roles, Buffy-speak and elf-speak, and villainous motivations.