Contributor: David Bratman

Apparently I’m the first to get this news on the TS website, and it’s not all that brand-new: the news came to my eyes on March 12. The long-needed collection by this title will be published in September, and is available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk. There’s a brief article about it in The Bookseller that’s […]

In a series of posts inspired by his reading of the new biography of Terry Pratchett – whose teenage fan letter to Tolkien was on display at the 2018 Bodleian exhibit – John D. Rateliff compares what he and Pratchett read next as a result of their reading Tolkien. I had some similar experiences.

I recently attended a Zoom session in which various Tolkienists, most of whom first read his work when young in the 1980s or 1990s, shared their stories. And I saw a few interesting patterns therein.

Posted by on 28 May 2023

The compilation of an annual Tolkien studies bibliography often catches in my net listings for articles which, until I read the full article myself, I can’t tell if it has enough on Tolkien to be worth listing. A 30-page biographical article on “Dickie” Reynolds – who was one of Tolkien’s masters at King Edward’s School […]

A personal follow-up to my post on reading Tolkien: remembrances of reading The Silmarillion when it was new …

When I was updating the Mythopoeic Society’s Inklings bibliography, I thought about placing this book, not among the works of Tolkien’s fiction, but in the books about Tolkien, under “The Secondary World.” There’s virtually no narrative here. It’s all brief essays and notes about the life-spans of the Elves and Númenóreans, the rules by which […]

Apparently I’m the first to get this news on the TS website, and it’s not all that brand-new: the news came to my eyes on March 12. The long-needed collection by this title will be published in September, and is available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk. There’s a brief article about it in The Bookseller that’s […]

Posted by on 28 May 2023

The compilation of an annual Tolkien studies bibliography often catches in my net listings for articles which, until I read the full article myself, I can’t tell if it has enough on Tolkien to be worth listing. A 30-page biographical article on “Dickie” Reynolds – who was one of Tolkien’s masters at King Edward’s School […]

In a series of posts inspired by his reading of the new biography of Terry Pratchett – whose teenage fan letter to Tolkien was on display at the 2018 Bodleian exhibit – John D. Rateliff compares what he and Pratchett read next as a result of their reading Tolkien. I had some similar experiences.

A personal follow-up to my post on reading Tolkien: remembrances of reading The Silmarillion when it was new …

I recently attended a Zoom session in which various Tolkienists, most of whom first read his work when young in the 1980s or 1990s, shared their stories. And I saw a few interesting patterns therein.

When I was updating the Mythopoeic Society’s Inklings bibliography, I thought about placing this book, not among the works of Tolkien’s fiction, but in the books about Tolkien, under “The Secondary World.” There’s virtually no narrative here. It’s all brief essays and notes about the life-spans of the Elves and Númenóreans, the rules by which […]

About the Author: David Bratman
David Bratman is co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, and former editor of Mythprint, the bulletin of The Mythopoeic Society. He likes to write about Tolkienian biography and bibliography.