Manuscript versions of a collection of critical essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. There are a total of 296 pages of the volume with copy edits. The collection of essays was edited by Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo. The fifteen essays included in this volume are listed below.

1. "On the possibilities of writing Tolkien criticism" by Neil D. Isaacs 2. "The dethronement of power" by C.S. Lewis 3. "The Lord of the Hobbits" by Edmund Fuller 4. "The quest hero" by W.H. Auden 5. "The appeal of The Lord of the Rings: a struggle for life" by Hugh T. Keenan 6. "Power and meaning in The Lord of the Rings" by Patricia Meyer Spacks 7. "Moral vision in The Lord of the Rings" by Rose A. Zimbardo 8. "Men, halflings, and hero-worship" by Marion Zimmer Bradley 9. "Tolkien and the fairy story" by Robert J. Reilly 10. "Tolkien: the monsters and the critters" by Thomas J. Gasque 11. "Old English in Rohan" by John Tinkler 12. "The poetry of fantasy: verse in The Lord of the Rings" by Mary Quella Kelly 13. "The shire, Mordor, and Minas Tirith" by Charles Moorman 14. "The Lord of the Rings as literature" by Burton Raffel 15. "Tolkien and Frodo Baggins" by Roger Sale