Thanks everyone for the suggestions.
I'm pleased to announce that
Critical Insights: The Hobbit from Salem Press is now available, and it includes my essay, "Poems and Songs of
The Hobbit"
Here's a recent article/blog post I wrote about my essay:
https://authordavidwiley.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/tolkiens-poetry-in-the-hobbit/Here's the ToC of the book:
Table of ContentsIntroductionStephen W. Potts: The Portal to Middle-earth
ContextKelly Orazi: J. R. R. Tolkien’s World: Cultural and Historical Influences on Middle-earth’s Subcreator
Alicia Fox-Lenz: An Unexpected Success: The Hobbit and the Critics
Jason Fisher: The Riddle and the Cup: Germanic Medieval Sources and Analogues in The Hobbit
John Rosegrant: Bilbo Baggins, Harry Potter, and the Fate of Enchantment
Critical ViewsHannah Parry: “Of Gold and an Alloy”: Tolkien, The Hobbit, and Northern Heroic Spirit
Jared Lobdell: “Witness Those Rings and Roundelays”: Catholicism and Faërie in The Hobbit
Kris Swank: Fairy-stories that Fueled The Hobbit
Josh Brown: Poems and Songs of The Hobbit
Sara Waldorf: A Turning Point: The Effect of The Hobbit on Middle-earth
Jelena Borojević: The Hobbit: A Mythopoeic Need for Adventure
Kayla Shaw: Growing Up Tolkien: Finding our way through Mirkwood
Aurélie Brémont: How to slay a dragon when you are only three feet tall
M. Lee Alexander: Tolkien and the Illustrators