Education Bibliography

THE HOBBIT

• Day, David, The Hobbit Companion (London: Pavilion Books, 1997)
• Foster, Robert, Teacher's Guide to The Hobbit (New York: Ballantine Books, 1981)
• Green, William H., The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995)
• Kroll, Carol, ed., and others, Novel-Ties: The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Study Guide (New York: Learning Links Inc., 1983, 1992)
• Pienciak, Anne M., J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Barron's Book Notes (Barron's Educational Series, 1986)
• A Reader's Companion to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995)
• Riddon, Geoffrey, J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, York Notes (Harlow: Longman, 1981)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS

• Box, Su, 'The Lord of the Rings' and its creator (Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic, 1974)
• Carpenter, Humphrey, The Lord of the Rings: Souvenir booklet commemorating twenty five years of its publication (London: Allen and Unwin, 1980). Published with the special commemorative boxed paperback set of LotR
• Carter, Lin, Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969)
• Chance, Jane, The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power (New York: Twayne, 1992)
• Day, David, Tolkien's Ring (London: HarperCollins, 1994)
• Ferré, Vincent, Tolkien: sur les rivages de la terre du milieu (Paris: Agora, 2001). A full length study of LotR, by a very knowledgeable medievalist.
• Hardy, Gene B., Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit: Notes ( Lincoln, Nebraska: Cliffs Notes 1977)
• Lobdell, Jared, England and Always: Tolkien's World of the Rings (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1981)
• Luke, Helen, Choice in The Lord of the Rings, (Michigan: Apple Farm Community, no date)
• Matthews, Richard, Lightning From a Clear Sky: Tolkien, the Trilogy, and The Silmarillion (San Bernadino: Borgo Press, 1978)
• Miesel, Sandra, Myth, Symbol and Religion in The Lord of the Rings (Baltimore: T-K Graphics,1973)
• Morrison, Louise D., J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring: A Critical Commentary (New York: Monarch Press, Simon & Schuster, 1976)
• Ready, William, The Tolkien Relation (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1968). Also in paperback as Understanding Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings (New York: Paperback Library, 1969)
• Ready, William, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: Notes, Coles Notes (Toronto: Coles Publishing, 1971)
• Ridden, Geoffrey, J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings, York Notes (Harlow: Longman,1984)
• Smith, Patrick Eddy, A Closer Look at The Lord of the Rings (no publication details)
• Strachey, Barbara, Journeys of Frodo: An Atlas of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Unwin Paperbacks (London: Allen and Unwin, 1981)
• Unwin, Rayner, The Making of The Lord of the Rings (Oxford: Willem A. Meeuws, 1992)

THE SILMARILLION

• Allan, Jim, A Speculation on The Silmarillion. Privately published by the author, 1975. A revised edition of An Extrapolation on The Silmarillion, A Tolkien Society Publication
• Helms, Randel, Tolkien and the Silmarils (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986)
• Kilby, Clyde S., Tolkien and The Silmarillion (Wheaton, Illinois: Harold Shaw, 1976: Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire: Lion Publishing,1977)
• Kocher, Paul H., A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1980; London: Thames and Hudson,1981)
• Tolkien, Christopher, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: A brief account of the book and its making (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977)

Conference proceedings

• Battarbee, K.J., ed., Scholarship & Fantasy: Proceedings of The Tolkien Phenomenon, May 1992, Turku, Finland. University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 1993
• Morus, I.R., and others, eds., Tolkien and Romanticism: Proceedings of the Cambridge Tolkien Workshop 1988, Cambridge Tolkien Workshop, 1988
• Reynolds, Patricia, and Glen H. GoodKnight, eds., Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, Mythlore 80 / Mallorn 30 (Milton Keynes and Altadena: The Tolkien Society and The Mythopoeic Society,1995)
• Reynolds, Trevor, ed., The First and Second Ages, The 5th Tolkien Society Workshop (London: The Tolkien Society, 1992)
• Richard Crawshaw, ed., Travel and Communication in Tolkien's Worlds, 10th Tolkien Society Workshop (Swindon: The Tolkien Society,1996)
• Shippey, T.A., Leaves from the Tree: J.R.R. Tolkien's Shorter Fiction, 4th Tolkien Society Workshop (London: The Tolkien Society, 1991)
• van der Weide, Sjoerd, ed., Proceedings of Unquendor's Third Lustrum Conference (Leiden: Lembas-Extra, Unquendor, 1998)

Critical works

• Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger, eds., Tolkien Studies volume 1 May 2004
• Buchs, Peter, and Thomas Honnegger, eds., News from the Shire and Beyond: Studies on Tolkien (Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers,1997)
• Curry, Patrick, Tolkien: Myth and Modernity (n.pl. Floris, 1997)
• Elwood, Gracia Fay, Good News from Tolkien's Middle Earth: Two Essays on the "Applicability" of The Lord of the Rings (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1970)
• Ferré, Vincent, Tolkien: sur les rivages de la terre milieu (Paris: Agora, 2001). French text.
• Harvey, David, The Song of Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien's Themes, Symbols and Myths (London: Allen and Unwin, 1981)
• Helms, Philip W., and others, eds., Peace and Conflict Studies in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Vol.1 (Flint, Michigan: American Tolkien Society, ?1994)
• Helms, Philip W., and others, Peace and Conflict Studies in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, vol. 2 (Flint, Michigan:American Tolkien Society, 1999)
• Honeggar, Thomas, ed., Root and Branch - Approaches towards Understanding Tolkien (Zurich and Berne, Walking Tree Publishers, 1999)
• Isaacs, Neil D., and Rose A. Zimbardo, eds., Tolkien and the Critics (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968)
• Isaacs, Neil D., and Rose A. Zimbardo, eds., Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives (University Press of Kentucky, 1981)
• Johnson, Judith A.,J.R.R. Tolkien: Six Decades of Criticism, Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, Number 6, (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press; London, England: 1986)
• Kamenkovich, Maria, The Trojan Horse: Russia as a New Context for Tolkien (Flint, Michigan: American Tolkien Society, 1999)
• Kocher, Paul H., Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972). The British reprint, from Thames and Hudson, had "Achievement" instead of "Fiction" in the title. Penguin reprint 1974
• O'Neill, Timothy R., The Individuated Hobbit: Jung, Tolkien and the Archetypes of Middle-earth (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979; London: Thames and Hudson, London, 1979)
• Paggi, Marco,La Spada e il labirinto: meraviglioso e fantastico ne 'Il signore degli anelli' (Genova: Edizioni Culturali Internazionali Genova, 1990)
• Raiche, Don, Ego and Shadow in The Lord of the Rings (Michigan: Apple Farm Community n.d.)
• Rosebury, Brian, Tolkien: A Critical Assessment (London: Macmillan, 1992)
• Sale, Roger, Modern Heroism: Essays on D.H. Lawrence, William Empson, and J.R.R. Tolkien (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973)
• West, Richard C., Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist, The Serif Series 39 (Kent State University Press, 1981). Revised from 1970 edition.

Elves

• Bradley, Marion Zimmer, The Jewel of Arwen (Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1974?)
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer, The Parting of Arwen (Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1974?)

Elvish

• Allan, James D., A Glossary of the Eldarin Tongues, Privately published by the author, 1972
• Allan, Jim, ed., and compiler,An Introduction to Elvish and to Other Tongues and Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-earth as Set Forth in the Published Writings of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Hayes, Middlesex: Bran's Head Books)
• Bradfield, Julian, A Dictionary of Elvish, privately published by the author, 1983; Second Edition, 1983.
• Chaij, Kenneth, The Sindarin Lexicon, Peter Roe Publications (The Tolkien Society)
• Horton, George, Tolkien: His Language. A Guide to Quenya, privately published by the author, 1997
• Martsch, Nancy, Basic Quenya, privately published by the author, 1992
• Salo, David, A Gateway to Sindarin (University of Utah Press 2004) (Salo was the language consutant for the films).
• Tolkienian linguistics on the Net "Ardalambion. Of the tongues of Arda", http://www.ardalambion.com. This site offers a scholarly study of all Tolkienian languages. There is also a Quenya course, regularly up-dated, downloadable for free.
• For learning Sindarin: "The Council of Elrond", http://www.councilofelrond.com. A typical fan site with a discussion forum dealing with the books and the movies. But there is a language section with a Quenya and Sindarin course, based on the Ardalambion research. It is accessible through free registration. Each lesson has its exercises corrected by a mentor.

See also below, Alexandra Velten.

Faith, Religion, and Philosophy in Tolkien's Works

• Agøy, Nils Ivar, ed., Between Faith and Fiction: Tolkien and the Powers of His World, Arda Special 1 (Upsala: Arthedain,1998)
• Begg, Ean C.M., The Lord of the Rings and The Signs of the Times, Guild of Pastoral Psychology Lecture Series, (London, Guild of Pastoral Psychology, 1993)
• Birzer, Bradley J. J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Foreword by Joseph Pearce (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002) Online at http://www.isi.org
• Grant, Patrick, Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief (London: Macmillan, 1979). The authors are Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves, David Jones, Tolkien, Owen Barfield and Michael Polanyi
• Hein, Rolland, Christian Mythmakers: Lewis, L'Engle, Tolkien and Others (Chicago: Cornerstone Press, 1998)
• Montgomery, John Warwick, ed., Myth, Allegory and Gospel: An Interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien; C.S. Lewis; G.K. Chesterton; Charles Williams (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, Inc., 1974)
• Palmer, Bruce, Of Orc-Rags, Phials & A Far Shore: Visions of Paradise in The Lord of the Rings (Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1976)
• Purtill, Richard L., J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1984)
• Reilly, Robert J., Romantic Religion: A Study of Barfield, Lewis, Williams, and Tolkien (Athens, GA.: University of Georgia Press, 1971)
• Urang, Gunnar, Shadows of Heaven: Religion and Fantasy in the Writing of C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J.R.R. Tolkien (London: SCM Press, 1971)
• Wood, Ralph, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004)
• Vink, Renee, ed., Tolkien and the Spirit of the Age (Leiden: Tolkien Genootschap "Unquendor", 1987)

Fantasy

• Attebery, Brian, Strategies of Fantasy (Indiana University Press, 1992). Contains a chapter: 'Is Fantasy Literature?: Tolkien and the Theorists'
• Collins, David, R. J.R.R. Tolkien, Master of Fantasy (Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1992)
• Green, Bill, Tolkien: Master of Fantasy ( Charlotteville, New York: SamHar Press, 1981)
• Hillegas, Mark, ed., Shadows of Imagination: The Fantasies of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams (Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969; new edition, 1979)
• Knight, Gareth, The Magical World of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield (Longmead: Element Books, 1990)
• Langford, Michael, ed., Contours of the Fantastic, Study of Sci-Fi and Fantasy number 41 (no publication details)
• Little, Edmund, The Fantasts: Studies in J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Nikolay Gogol and Kenneth Grahame (Amersham: Avebury, 1984)
• Petzold, Dieter, J.R.R. Tolkien: Fantasy Literature als Wunscherfullung und Weltdeutung (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1980)
• Purtill, Richard L. Lord of the Elves and Eldils: Fantasy and Philosophy in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing, 1974)
• Rossenberg, René van,ed., Motieven in Midden-aarde: Essays over Tolkien en fantasy, Lembas-extra 1988, Een Unquendor uitgave, Tolkien Winkel, 1988
• Rossi, Lee D., The Politics of Fantasy: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984)
• Shorto, Russell, J.R.R. Tolkien: Man of Fantasy (New York: The Kipling Press, 1988)
• Stevens, David and Carol D., J.R.R. Tolkien (n.pl.: Starmont House, 1992), reissued as J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Myth-maker (San Bernadino: Borgo Press, 1993)
• Veldman, Meredith, Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic protest, 1945-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Film Adaptation

• Porter, Lynnette, Unsung heroes of the Lord of the Rings: From Page to Screen (Greenwood Press, 2005)
• Wright, Greg, Tolkien in Perspective: Sifting the Gold from the Glitter
• Wright, Greg,Peter Jackson in Perspective: The Power Behind Cinema's The Lord of the Rings
• Honegger, Thomas, ed.,Translating Tolkien: Text and Film (Walkingtree Press). Translation/adaptation theories. Includes:
  Hogset, Oystein, "The Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings -- A Critical Comment", particularly good for discussing theories of adaptation.
  Velten, Alexandra, on the songs in the movies, includes information on Eowyn's funeral dirge. You can get some of the information she used at http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie.htm
  The publisher's website is http://go.to/walkingtree
• Croft, Janet, ed.,Tolkien on Film (forthcoming). Includes essays on women in the books and movies and women in medieval literature. See particularly Maureen Thum's essay.
  Publisher's web page http://www.mythsoc.org/croft.html

Journals

• Tolkien Studies Journals
  The contents list of the excellent Tolkien Studies Journals can be accessed online easily and is a valuable research tool in itself. Writers hoping to submit essays for consideration by the journal should, however, be aware that Tolkien Studies has a rather rigorous set of Conventions and Abbreviations, and that these need to be accessed via http://jrrtolkien.wheatoncollege.edu They can be freely copied, re-posted, and disseminated so long as the journal is credited.

Language

• Blackwelder, Richard E., A Tolkien Thesaurus (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990)
• Blackwelder, Richard E., Tolkien Phraseology: A Companion to A Tolkien Thesaurus (Marquette University: Tolkien Archives Fund, 1990)
• Flieger, Verlyn, Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1983)
• Gray, Douglas, A Marriage of Mercury and Philology. Inaugural Lecture, University of Oxford, 21 May 1981 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982)
• Lobdell, Jared, ed., A Tolkien Compass (La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing,1975; New York: Ballantine Books, 1980). Contains Tolkien's own 'Guide to the names in The Lord of the Rings'
• Noel, Ruth S., The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980). Revised edition of The Languages of Middle-earth, 1974

Middle-earth and its diversity

• Bates, Brian, The Real Middle Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages ( n.pl. Sidgwick and Jackson 2002)
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer, Men, Halflings & Hero Worship (Baltimore: T-K Graphics,1973)
• Bonnal, Nicolas, Tolkien:Les univers d'un Magicien (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1998)
• Curry, Patrick, Defending Middle-earth (Edinburgh: Floris Books,1997 and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997) hardback; revised. (London: HarperCollins, 1998) paperback
• Day, David, A Tolkien Bestiary (London: Mitchell Beazley, 1979,revised Emblem, 1982)
• Day, David, A-Z of Tolkien (London: Mitchell Beazley,1993). Text reprinted from The Tolkien Bestiary and The Tolkien Encyclopedia (London: Chancellor Press, 1996)
• Day, David, Characters from Tolkien (no publication details)
• Duriez, Colin, The Tolkien and Middle-earth Handbook (Tunbridge Wells: Monarch,1992)
• Flieger, Verlyn, and Carl F. Hostetter, eds., Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (Westport, CN.: Greenwood Press, 2000)
• Fonstad, Karen Wynn, The Atlas of Middle-earth (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1981; revised edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1992; London: HarperCollins, 1992)
• Foster, Robert, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: from The Hobbit to The Silmarillion (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978; London: Allen and Unwin, 1978). Revised edition of A Guide to Middle-earth (Baltimore: The Mirage Press, 1971)
• Giddings, Robert, and Elizabeth Holland, The Shores of Middle-earth (London: Junction Books,1981)
• Haber, Karen, Meditations on Middle-earth (no publication details)
• Krege, Wolfgang, Handbuch der Weisen von Mittelerde (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta,1996)
• Martinez, Michael, Visualizing Middle-earth
• Miller, Stephen O., Middle Earth: A World in Conflict (Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1975)
• Miller, Stephen O.,Mithrandir (Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1974)
• Noad, Charles, The Trees, the Jewels, and the Rings: A discursive enquiry into things little known on Middle-earth (n.pl.: The Tolkien Society, 1977)
• Rockow, Karen, Funeral Customs in Tolkien's Trilogy (Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1973)
• Stanton, Michael, Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards (no publication details)
• Tolkien's World: Pictures of Middle-earth (London: HarperCollins, 1992)
• West, John G. Jr., Celebrating Middle-earth (no publication details)

Miscellaneous

• Tolkien's Roverandom: a short critical review by Vincent Asaro urging further critical research
• Anish, Matthew, From the Outside: The Middle Earth Poems of Matthew Anish (Illinios. L. Applebaum, 1994)
• Armstrong, Helen, ed., Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees: A Selection from 25 Years of Speeches at the Tolkien Society's Annual Dinners. Vol. 1 (Swindon: The Tolkien Society, 1997)
• Armstrong, Helen, ed., Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees: A Selection from 25 Years of Speeches at the Tolkien Society's Annual Dinners. Volume 2 ( Swindon: The Tolkien Society, 1998)
• Andrews, Bart, with Bernie Zuber, The Tolkien Quiz Book (New York: New American Library,1979; London: Sphere Books,1979)
• Buchholz, Suzanne, The Middle-earth Quiz Book (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1979)
• Beard, Henry N., and Douglas C. Kenney (The Harvard Lampoon) Bored of the Rings ( New York: The New American Library, 1969)
• Becker, Alida, ed., The Tolkien Scrapbook (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1978). Reprinted as The Tolkien Treasury(n.pl. Courage Books, Running Press, 1989)
• Bridoux, Denis, Of Amalion, privately published by the author, 1986
• Goncz, Árpád, Gyaluforgács (Budapest: Pesti Szalon Könyvkiado, 1991)
• "Hafwise, Fungo", ed., Delvings, Pant-Hoot Publication no. 116, (n.pl.: American Tolkien Society, 1978)
• Hunnewell, Gary, ed., From the Archives of Hildifons Took, Formerly of Tuckborough, A Collection of Items Found in non-Tolkien Fanzines, Written and Drawn by Fans and Students of the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, from Sumner, privately published, 1991
• Hunnewell, Gary, ed., Tolkien Fannish and Scholarly Activities and Publications: Year End Review 1992 (Arnold, MO.: The New England Tolkien Society, 1993)
• Hunnewell, Gary, ed., Tolkien Fannish & Scholarly Publications 1993 (Arnold, MO.: The New England Tolkien Society, 1995)
• Knowles, Sebastian D.G., The Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990)
• Martsch, Nancy, A List of Tolkieniana, privately published by the author, 1992
• Murray, Andrew, The Tolkien Quiz Book (London: HarperCollins,1996)
• Realms of Tolkien, various artists (London: HarperCollins, 1996)
• Reynolds, Pat, Tolkien's Birmingham (n.pl. The Forsaken Inn Press, 1992)
• Robinson, Nigel, and Linda Wilson, The Tolkien Quiz Book (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981; London: W.H. Allen, 1981)
• Rossenberg, René van, ed., Elrond's Holy Round Table: Essays on Tolkien, Sayers and the Arthur Saga, Lembas Extra 1990 (Tolkienwinkel, The Netherlands: An Unquendor Publication, 1990)
• Unwin, Rayner, George Allen and Unwin: A Remembrancer (Ludlow: Merlin Unwin Books, 1999)
• Vaclavik, Jan, Tam a Zase zpatky: There and Back Again (privately published, 1996)
• Vesper-Raum, Henry Paul, ed., Atti del Tolk-Con, Il Crisobollo, Volume Speciale 1992 (Sanremo, Italy, 1996)
• Vink, Renee, et al., Tolkien: Herdenkingsnummer van LEMBAS (Den Haag: Uitgeverij Sirius en Sideruis, 1983)
• Wyatt, Joan, A Middle-Earth Album: Paintings by Joan Wyatt Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979)

Music

• Nahigian, Ken, The Middle-earth Songbook (privately published, 1976)
• Tolkien, J.R.R., and Donald Swann, The Road Goes Ever On

Mythology

• Birzer, Bradley J., JRR Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth (Isis Books)
• Jones, Leslie Ellen, Myth and Middle - earth (Cold Springs Press, 2002)
• Neimark, Anne E., Myth Maker: J.R.R. Tolkien (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996)
• Nitzsche, Jane Chance, Tolkien's Art: "A Mythology for England" (London: Macmillan, 1979)
• Noel, Ruth S., The Mythology of Middle-earth (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977; London: Thames and Hudson, 1977). Also reprinted as The Mythology of Tolkien's Middle-earth (Panther, 1979)
• Petty, Anne C., One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology (n.pl., University of Alabama Press, 1979)
• Wainwright, Edmund, Tolkien's Mythology for England (Anglo-Saxon Books, 2004_

Sources

• Beahm, George, The Essential JRR Tolkien Sourcebook: A Fan's Guide to Middle-earth and Beyond (New Page Books, 2004)
• Clark, George, and Daniel Timmons, eds, Tolkien and his Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth (Westport, CN.: Greenwood Press, 2000)
• Crawford, Edward, Some Light on Middle-earth (n.pl.: The Tolkien Society, 1985)
• Crawford, Richard, ed., Tolkien, the Sea and Scandinavia, The 11th Tolkien Society Seminar (Telford, Shropshire: The Tolkien Society, 1999)
• Day, David, Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia (London: Mitchell Beazley, 1991)
• Il mondo di J.R.R. TOLKIEN negli EX LIBRIS, Preface: Roberto Genovesi, Introduction: Remo Palmirani, Keltia Editrice, Aosta, 1992
• Flieger, Verlyn, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997)
• Day, David, The Tolkien Companion (London: Mandarin, 1993)
• Morse, Robert E., Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien's Art: Geritol for the Classics (Oak Park, Wisconsin: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1986)
• Shippey, T.A., The Road to Middle-Earth (London: Allen and Unwin: new edition London: Grafton, HarperCollins, 1992)
• 'Turgon', The Tolkien Fan's Medieval Reader (Cold Spring Press, 2004)
• For the Kalevala, see Anne Petty's website: http://www.annepetty.com
• Chance, Jane, ed., Tolkien and the Invention of Myth includes two articles specifically on the Kalevala:
  Tom Shippey, "Tolkien and the Appeal of the Pagan", pages 145-162. Shippey's essay is one of his best.
  Verlyn Flieger "A Mythology for Finland", pages 277-284.
  (Thanks to Janet Croft for these references)

Tolkien and the Inklings

• Ang, Susan, The Master of the Rings: Inside the World of J.R.R. Tolkien (n.pl. Wizard Books, n.d.)
• Blazejewski, Michal, J.R.R. Tolkien - Powiernik Piesni (n.pl.: Phantom Press, 1993)
• Bramlett, Perry C., 'I am in fact a hobbit': An Introduction to the Life and Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (no publication details)
• Carpenter, Humphrey, The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends London: Allen and Unwin, 1978)
• Carpenter, Humphrey, Tolkien: A Biography ( London: Allen and Unwin, 1977)
• Chance, Jane, Tolkien the Medievalist (London: Routledge, 2002). This is a collection of scholarly essays which analyse the literary and intellectual context of Tolkien's own scholarship, it includes an analysis of his relationships with E V Gordon (collaborated in editing Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght) and C. S. Lewis; the significance of Old English and medieval works in the devlopment of The Lord of the Rings; and Tolkein's religious beliefs and critical theory
• Chertkova, Nadezhda, Mir Tolkina: Spravochnik (Moscow: Gil-Estel, 1992)
• Coren, Michael, J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Who Created The Lord of the Rings
• Crabbe, Kathryn F., J.R.R. Tolkien, Modern Literature Series (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981; revised and expanded edition, Ungar, 1988)
• Duriez, Colin, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis (Sutton, 2005, originally Hidden Spring USA, 2003)
• Duriez, Colin, and David Porte, The Inklings Handbook (Azure, 2001)
• Etkin, Anne, ed., Eglerio! In Praise of Tolkien (Greencastle, Pennsylvania: Quest, 1978)
• Evans, Robley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Writers for the Seventies (New York: Crowell, 1971; New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1971)
• Hammond, Wayne G., and Douglas A. Anderson, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1993)
• Hammond, Wayne G., and Christina Scull, J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator ( London: HarperCollins, 1995)
• Giddings, Robert, ed., J.R.R. Tolkien: This Far Land (London and Totawa, New Jersey: Vision and Barnes & Noble, 1983)
• Gray, Rosemary, ed., A Tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien (Pretoria: Unisa, 1992)
• Greenberg, Martin H., ed., After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien (n.pl.: Tor/Doherty, 1992; Pan, 1992)
• Grotta, Daniel, The Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-earth (Philadelphia: Running Press,1978; New York: Warner Books, 1979)
• Helms, Randel, Tolkien's World (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1974; as Myth, Magic and Meaning in Tolkien's World (n.pl.: Panther, 1976)
• Jonsson, Åke, A Tolkien Bibliography 1911-1980: Writings by and about J.R.R. Tolkien, Tredje Upplagen, 1986
• Kloczko, Edouard J., ed., Tolkien en France, A.R.D.A., 1998
• Koster, Katie, ed., Readings on J.R.R. Tolkien (no publication details)
• Kranz, Gisbert, Die Inklings-Bibliothek: Systematischer Katalog der Spezialsammlung zu G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams (Passau: Ersten Deutschen Fantasy Club, 1992)
• Lichanski, Jakub Z., J.R.R. Tolkien: Recepcja Polska: Studia i eseje (Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1996)
• Lyons, Mathew, There and Back Again: In the Footsteps of JRR Tolkien (Cadogan Guides)
• The Tolkien Papers, Mankato State College Studies in English, Vol.II, No.1, February 1967
• Moseley, Charles, J.R.R. Tolkien, Writers and their Work (Plymouth: Northcote House Publishers, 1996)
• Neimark, Anne E. J.R.R. Tolkien (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996)
• Ohlmarks, Åke, Tolkiens Arv (Stockholm: Bokforlaget PLUS, 1978)
• Pearce, Joseph, ed., Tolkien: A Celebration: Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy (London: Fount, 1999)
• Pearce, Joseph, Tolkien: Man and Myth (London: HarperCollins, 1998)
• Priestman, Judith, J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend, An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of the Birth of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), illustrated catalogue compiled by Judith Priestman (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1992)
• Rogers, Deborah Webster, and Ivor A. Rogers, J.R.R. Tolkien, Twayne's English Authors Series 304 (Boston: Twayne, 1980; n. pl. Hippocrene Books, 1982)
• Rosebury, Brian, J.R.R. Tolkien: Scholar and Storyteller (London: Macmillan, 1992)
• Rossenberg, René van, Hobbits in Holland: Leven en Werk van J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) (Den Haag: Koninklijke Bibliothek, 1992)
• Ryan, J.S., The Shaping of Middle-earth's Maker (n.pl.: American Tolkien Society, 1992)
• Ryan. J.S., Tolkien: Cult or Culture? (Armidale, N.S.W.: University of Sydney, 1969)
• Salu, Mary and Robert T. Farrell, eds., J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays In Memoriam (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1979)
• Stimpson, Catherine R., J.R.R. Tolkien, Columbia Essays on Modern Writers No. 41 (n.pl.: Columbia University Press, 1969)
• Shippey, Tom., J.R.R. Tolkien, Author of the Century (2000)
• Tolkien, John and Priscilla, The Tolkien Family Album (London: HarperCollins, 1992)
• Tyler, J.E.A., The New Tolkien Companion (London: Macmillan, 1979), second edition of The Tolkien Companion, 1976
• Vanhecke, Johan, J.R.R. Tolkien 1892-1992 (Antwerp: Stadsbibliothek en het Archief en Museum voor het Vlaamse Culturleven, 1992)
• Vanhecke, Johan, et al., De Mijnen van Moria: essays over J.R.R. Tolkien (Uitgrave: EXA, 1983)
• White, Michael, Tolkien: A Biography (Abacus, 2002)
• Wilson, Colin, Tree by Tolkien (London: Covent Garden Press/INCA Books, 1973; with additional Introduction (London: Village Press ,1974). Reprinted in The Tolkien Scrapbook

War Studies

• Croft, Janet, "War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien"
• Garth, John, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth(HarperCollins, 2004)

Website Studies

• The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
• Studies in Medievalism, now edited by Tom Shippey (Deptartment of English, St Louis University, St Louis, MO 63103.
• http://www.enotes.com/jax/index.php/enotes/gsearch?m=co&q=tolkien&c=Site&x=19&y=6 - enotes website
  explaining the site: http://www.enotes.com/help/about/

Bibliography of Spanish and Portuguese Books and websites

Books:

Helios De Rosario is a Spanish reader and student of J.R.R. Tolkien's works. He has kindly provided information about some Spanish works with biographical information about Tolkien. The following works have been published in Spanish:

1. Arguijo, Paulino. Tolkien. Ediciones Paulino Arguijo de Estremera. Madrid, 2003. ISBN 84-607-8608-0.
2. Irigaray, Ricardo. Aproximación a Tolkien. Ediciones de la Universidad Católica Argentina (EDUCA). Buenos Aires, 1999. ISBN 950-523-125-3.
3. Repún, Graciela and Enrique Melatoni (ill.) J.R.R. Tolkien para principiantes. Era Naciente SRL. Buenos Aires, 2001. ISBN 987-9065-93-X
4. Santoyo, Julio César and José Miguel Santamaría. John R.R. Tolkien. Barcanova. Barcelona, 1983. ISBN 84-7533-084-3.
5. Segura, Eduardo. El mago de las palabras. Casals. Barcelona, 2002. ISBN 84-218-2640-9
   (2) and (4) may be hardly available in stores, though an issue of (4) is filed in the Archives of the Spanish Tolkien Society. The other ones may be still available: all they are books introducing Tolkien and his works for "beginners"; (3) is in fact a book mostly oriented to children, with a great amount of illustrations.
   Works in Spanish, mostly about Tolkien's works, rather than about his biography:
6. Carretero, Margarita. Fantasía, épica y utopía en The lord of the rings : análisis temático y de la recepción. Editorial Universidad de Granada. Granada, 1997. ISBN 84-338-2287-X.
7. Fernández Biggs, Braulio. Tolkien y el reencantamiento del mundo. Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile. Santiago, 2003. ISBN 956-14-0715-9.
8. Ferro, Jorge N. Leyendo a Tolkien. Vórtice. Buenos Aires, 1996. ISBN 950-99168-7-0.
9. Gómez, Teodoro. El lector de: J.R.R. Tolkien Océano Difusión Editorial. Barcelona, 2001. ISBN 84-7556-054-7.
10. Irigaray, Ricardo. Elfos, hobbits y dragones. Tierra Media. Buenos Aires, 1999. ISBN 987-97595-1-6.
11. Odero, José Miguel. J.R.R. Tolkien. Cuentos de hadas Ediciones Universidad de Navarra. Barañáin, 1987. ISBN 84-313-1006-5.
12. Rampoldi, María Florencia. Tolkien, el señor de los mitos. Círculo Latino. Barcelona, 2003. ISBN 84-961290-0-4.
13. Romero, Isabel. En el corazón del mito. La dimensión espiritual de El Señor de los Anillos. PPC. Boadilla del Monte, 2004. ISBN 84-288-1900-9.
14. San José, María del Pilar. La Literatura fantástica de J.R.R. Tolkien. Universidad de Léon. Secretariado de Publicaciones y Medios Audiovisuales. León, 1986. ISBN 84-600-4657-5.
15. Segura, Eduardo. El viaje del Anillo. Minotauro. Barcelona, 2004. ISBN 84-450-7490-3.

(6), (11), (14) and (15) are Ph.D. theses, and of these only (15) is easily available, as it is distributed by a commercial publisher.

J.R.R. Tolkien, una Biografía (Minotauro. Por Humphrey Carpenter) La que, podríamos llamar, biografía oficial de Tolkien. Imprescindible.

In Portuguese: As Cartas de JRR Tolkien - Brazilian edition

There are three Brazilian books from Devir Edition

There are more Brazilian editions even than Portuguese.

Websites

http://www.sociedadtolkien.org/texto.php?id=11

Ronald Kyrmse's group in Brazil: http://www.geocities.com/otsoandor/ offers information in Portuguese and English, and he is responsive and friendly. He was the official translator for a large number of Tolkien's works in Brazil and is still active in the Tolkien community.

Paola Castagno writes I've been studying Tolkien's work for more than a decade. Some years ago I published a book along with two friends about the most frequently asked questions in Tolkien's mythology. This last year, along with my husband Leandro Pascual, we published a Student's readers guide of The Hobbit. In this work, we prepared a short biography about J.R.R. Tolkien.

Contact Paola Castagno paolacastagno@gmail.com or their website http://www.elfenomeno.com/

Other suggestions for Spanish-speakers in the Americas:

• http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/ListaTolkien/ (ListaTolkien)
• http://www.planetadeagostini.com.ar/microsite/biblioteca-tolkien/
• sociedad@sociedadtolkien.org (email)

Disregarding the cost of delivery from Mexico, here are two books stores that sell on-line and deliver international.

• http://www.elsotano.com
• http://www.gandhi.com

Many English books about Tolkien have been translated into Spanish, incuding Carpenter's, Grotta's and White's biographies, Lin Carter's classic A look behind The Lord of the Rings, Shippey's The road to Middle-earth and Author of the Century, Pearce's Man and Myth and Master of Middle-earth. If all else fails remember http://babelfish.altavista.com.

www.freetranslation.com offer truly "free" translation services, as well as others, including paid subscription services and individual translation services. The free program supports both Spanish to English and English to Spanish

Thanks to all the Education volunteers, their friends, and colleagues who generaously provided all this information.