Forgotten Ground Regained

Joe R. Christopher

Joe R. Christopher is a well-known Tolkien scholar and emeritus professor of English literaure at Tarleton State University. His alliterative poetry includes:
  • "Beowulf's Prayer Before Meeting the Wyrm" in Star*Line 16, 6/7, pp. 22-24
  • "Prayer to Tyr", "Far from Jötenheim". and "A Prayer to Balder" in "The World War I Poems of Nathan Whilc" in Mythic Circle #28, pp. 41, 42, 46.
  • "A Baroque Memorial" (tribute to Tolkien) in Mythlore 3/2, pp. 11-12
  • "Aphorism", "A Curse on Acdemic Critics", and "Weland in Captivity" in The Varieties of Poetic Genres: Ars Poetica