Further Reading

An always growing list

Auerbach, Eric. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.

Birzer, Bradley J. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003.

Burns, Marjorie. Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Byatt, A.S.  “Old Tales, New Forms,” in On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001), pp. 123-50, 182-83.

Caldecott, Stratford. The Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. 2nd ed. Chestnut Ridge, NY: Crossroad, 2012.

Carpenter, Humphrey. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.

Chance, Jane. Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England, 2nd ed. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Chance, Jane, ed., Tolkien the Medievalist. New York: Routledge, 2003.

________, Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Cilli, Oronzo. Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist. Edinburgh: Luna Press, 2019.

Drout, Michael D.C. ed., J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Flieger, Verlyn. “Frodo and Aragorn: The Concept of the Hero,” in Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism, eds. Rose A. Zimbardo and Neil D. Isaacs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), pp. 122-145.

________, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology. Kent: Kent State Press, 2005.

________, Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien. Kent: Kent State Press, 2012.

________, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faërie. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997.

________, Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World, rev. ed. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2002.

Flieger, Verlyn, and Carl F. Hostetter. Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Fonstad, Karen Wynn. The Atlas of Middle-Earth. Rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 

Garth, John. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

________. The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

Gilliver, Peter, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Hammond, Wayne G, with Douglas A. Anderson. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester, Eng.: St. Paul’s Bibliographies; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.

Hammond, Wayne G., and Christina Scull. J.R.R. Tolkien, Artist & Illustrator. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Jahosky, Michael T. The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-earth. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2020.

Judd, Walter S., and Graham A. Judd. Flora of Middle-earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Lewis, C.S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

McIntosh, Jonathan S. The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie. Kettering, OH: Angelico Press, 2017.

Noad, Charles. “On the Construction of the Silmarillion,” in Tolkien’s Legendarium, eds. Flieger and Hostetter, pp. 31-68.

Olsen, Corey. Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Boston: Mariner Books, 2012.

Ordway, Holly. Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages. Park Ridge, IL: Word on Fire, 2021.

Roberts, Adam. The Riddles of The Hobbit. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Rosebury, Brian. Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon. New York: Palgrave, 2003.

Scull, Christina, and Wayne G. Hammond. The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology and Reader’s Guide. 3 vols. rev. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2017.

Shippey, Tom,  J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

________. The Road to Middle-earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology. Rev. ed. Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 2003.

West, Richard C. Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist. Rev. ed. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1981.

Wiley, C.R. In the House of Tom Bombadil. Moscow, Idaho: Canon Press, 2021.

Zaleski, Philip and Carol. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.