Revised for the Education Pages by Lynn Forest-Hill, April 2005.
Academic theses and dissertations
- Barth, Melissa Ellen, Problems in Generic Classification: Toward
a Definition of Fantasy, Ph.D. Purdue University, no. 0183, Year:
1981
- Buhr, Glenn Arthur, 'Beren and Luthien' (original
composition), MUS.D., University of Michigan, no. 0127, Year: 1984
- Burns, Linda Lattin, High Fantasy: A Definition, Ph.D.
University of Missouri - Columbia, no. 0133, Year: 1979
- Calabrese, John Anthony, Elements of Myth in J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord
of the Rings" and Selected Paintings of Paul Klee, Ph.D. Ohio
University, no. 0167, Year: 1980
- Davis, Larry Elton, A Christian Philosophical Examination of the
Picture of Evil in the Writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, Ph.D.
SouthWestern Baptist Theological Seminary, no. 0345, Year: 1983
- Dockery, Carl Dee, The Myth of the Shadow in the Fantasies of
Williams, Lewis, and Tolkien, Ph.D. Auburn University, no. 0012,
Year: 1975
- Dowie, William John, Jr., Religious Fiction in a Profane Time:
Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, Ph.D. Brandeis
University, no. 0021, Year: 1970
- Green, William Howard, 'The Hobbit' and other Fiction by J. R. R.
Tolkien: Their Roots in Medieval Heroic Literature and Language,
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, Agricultural and Mechanical College, no.
0107, Year: 1969
- Hurtubise, Paul Gustave, A Stylistic Analysis of Selected
Passages in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings",
M.A. York University (Canada), no. 0267, Year: 1998
- Hyde, Paul Nolan, Linguistic Techniques Used in Character
Development in the Works J.R.R. Tolkien, 3 vols. Ph.D. Purdue
University, no. 0183, Year: 1982
- Irigaray, Ricardo Luis, Tolkien y la Fe Cristiana,
Universidad de Navarra (Spain), no. 5864 Year: 1996
- Jarosz, Marek, The Dual Nature of Evil in the Selected Works of
J.R.R. Tolkien M.A. University of Latvia
- Kahm, Trinette, Literature as a Peacebuilding Tool: J.R.R.
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. M.A. This is available for
viewing, e-mail to request it trinnyface@hotmail.com
- O'Hare, Colman, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R.
Tolkien: Three Approaches to Religion in Modern Fiction, Ph.D.
University of Toronto (Canada), no. 0779, Year: 1973
- Petty, Anne Cotton, The Creative Mythology of J. R. R. Tolkien: A
Study of the Mythic Impulse, Ph.D. Florida State University, no.
0071, Year: 1972
- Reilly, Robert J., Romantic Religion in the Work of Owen
Barfield, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J. R. R. Tolkien, Ph.D.
Michigan State University, no. 0128, Year: 1960
- Rogers, Champion Webster, The Fictitious Characters of C. S.
Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien in Relation to their Medieval Sources,
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison, no. 0262, Year: 1972
- Rosa, Adrian Wayne, Elves, The Righteous Ringmakers: Taking
Tolkien Seriously, M.A., Florida Atlantic University, no. 0119,
Year: 1990
- Rossi, Lee Donald, The Politics of Fantasy: C. S. Lewis and J. R.
R. Tolkien, Ph.D. Cornell University, no. 0058, Year: 1972
- Sarti, Ronald Christopher, Man in a Mortal World: J. R. R.
Tolkien and 'The Lord of the Rings', Ph.D. Indiana University, no.
0093. Year: 1984
- Simpson, Dale Wilson, Modernised Myth: 'Beowulf', J.R.R.Tolkien,
and 'The Lord of the Rings', M.A., University of North Texas, no.
0158, Year: 1974
- Smith, Arden Ray, Germanic Linguistic Influence on the Invented
Languages of J. R. Tolkien,: Ph.D. University of California,
Berkeley, no. 0028, Year: 1997
- Syme, Margaret Ruth, Tolkien as Gospel Writer, Ph.D.
McGill University (Canada), no. 0781 Year: 1989
- Timmons, Daniel Patrick, Mirror on Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien
and the Critical Perspectives, Ph.D. University of Toronto
(Canada), no. 0779, Year: 1998
- Urang, Gunnar, Shadows of Heaven: the Uses of Fantasy in the
Fiction of C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J.R.R. Tolkien, Ph.D.,
University of Chicago, no. 0330, Year: 1970
- Walker, Frederick Arthur, Fictive Diction: Fantasy in Exotic
Words (C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, 'Inklings'),
Ph.D. Queen's University at Kingston (Canada), no. 0283, Year: 1991
- Walker, Steven Charles, Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of J.
R. R. Tolkien, Ph.D. Harvard University, no. 0084, Year: 1973
- Whittingham, Elizabeth Ann , The final victory: The evolution of
J. R. R. Tolkien's "The History of Middle-Earth", Ph.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo, no. 0656, Year: 2002
- Wright, Marjorie Evelyn, The Cosmic Kingdom of Myth: A Study in
the Myth-Philosophy of Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien,
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, no. 0090, Year: 1960
Articles
Note: titles of articles are given in quotation marks, titles of
publications in which they appear are given in italics.
- Auden, W.H., 'Good and evil in The Lord of the Rings', Critical
Quarterly, 10 (Spring/Summer 68), p.138-42
- Bennett, Catherine, 'In the beginning, there was Bilbo', Times,
22 August 1987, page 13
- Brooks, X., 'The Ring Cycle', Guardian, 7 December 2001, Review
pages 2-4
- Cater, Bill, 'The lord of the legends', Sunday Times Magazine,
2 January 1972, page 24
- Carpenter, H; Scott, D; Brewis, K; O'Hehir, A; Sibley, B; Hudson, R;
McKay, C; Barrell, T; Goodwin, C; Cooke, R; Scott, C., 'The Lord of the
Rings collectors issue', Sunday Times Magazine, 25 November 2001,
pages 3-41
- Cox, C.B., 'The world of the Hobbits', Spectator, 30 December
1966, page 844
- Craig, Amanda, 'Lord of all he conveyed, despite his fans', Independent,
25 January 1992, page 29
- Curtis, Anthony, 'Remembering Tolkien and Lewis', British Book
News, June 1977, pages 429-30
- Ezard, J., 'So, would Tolkien have liked the film?' Guardian,
14 December 2001, supplement pages 4-5
- Ezard, John, 'Tolkien's Shire', Guardian, (28 December 1991)
supplement, pages 4-6.
- Fenton, James, 'Secondary worlds', New Statesman, 13 May
1977, pages 642-3
- Flieger, V; Welden, B; Wilcox, J A., 'Wizard guides out of our
Middle-earth. Defenders of The Ring up in arms at myth in the making',
Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 August 2001, pages 18-19
- Forest-Hill, Lynn, 'The Return of Middle-earth: there and back again',
TEMA , April 2004,
http://www.gasbag.wz.cz/tema/rocnik2/cislo4/04-05.htm
- Forest-Hill, Lynn, 'The Fantastic Seriousness of J.R.R.Tolkien', TEMA,
April 2004, www.gasbag.wz.cz/tema/rocnik2/cislo4/04-03.htm
- Forest-Hill, Lynn, 'Kortirion Among the Trees: The Influence of Warwick
on J.R.R. Tolkien's Vision of Middle-earth', TLS,
forthcoming, June/July 2005
- [also forthcoming April/May in TEMA (e-journal),
www.gasbag.wz.cz/tema/]
- Fuller, G., 'Trimming Tolkien', Sight and Sound, 12:2
(February 2002), pages 18-20
- Gardner, Anthony, 'Literary giant or monstrous myth?' Times
Review suppt, 28 December 1991, pages 30-1, 33.
- Hill, Joy, 'Daily life on Middle Earth [Letters to JRR Tolkien]',
Bookseller, 3 August 1968, pages 374-5
- Jones, Nicolette, 'The Tolkien phenomenon', British Book News,
(January 1992), pages 16-17
- McKenna, Elise, 'Miscellany', Eclectica(e-journal) volume 7,
no. 2 (April/May 2003), http://www.eclectica.org/
- Markham-Smith, I., 'Tolkien about me, my elf and I - and Middle Earth',
Times, 26 July 2000, pages 24-5
- Medcalf, S., 'Lord of the Century', Times Literary Supplemen,
22 September 2000, pages 24-5
- Medcalf, Stephen, 'Elven evolutions', Times Literary Supplemen,
19 July 1985, page 802
- Murray, Robert, 'Faith Tolkien: a theologian among sculptors', Month,
27: 8 (August 1994), pages 320-4
- Murray, Robert, 'J.R.R. Tolkien and the art of the parable', Month,
26:1 (January 1993), pages 35-9
- Murray, B., Philosophy Now, 39 (December/January 2003), pages 46-7.
Abstract: ''The Lord of the Rings' strikes many as being a Christian
allegory. It is not that simple, but nevertheless it is possible to
identify the Christian message in Tolkien's trilogy.'
- Newman, Philip, 'The Hobbitman', Sunday Times Magazine, 15
January 1967, pages 34-6
- Page, B., 'Merchandising Middle Earth', Bookseller, 31
August 2001, pages 32
- Ratcliff, John D., 'JRR Tolkien: 'Sir Topas' revisited', Notes
and Queries, 29 August 1982, page 348
- Ryon, J.S., 'German mythology applied - the extension of the literary
folk memory', Folklore, 77 (Spring 1966), pages 45-59
- Sanderson, C., 'A publishing fantasy', Bookseller, 27 September
2002, pages 24-6
- Seddon, Sue., 'The return of Tolkien', Sunday Times Magazine,
19 September 1982, pages 82-5
- Shippey, Tom., 'Slaying, pillaging, burning, ravishing, and thus
gratifying a laudable taste for adventure', London Review of Books,
17:11 (8 June 1995), pages 16-17
- Shippey, T.A., 'A philologist in purgatory', Times Literary
Supplement, 28 August 1981, pages 975-6
- Shippey, T.A., 'The foolhardy philologist', Times Literary
Supplement, 13 May 1977, page 583
- Sirridge, Mary, 'J.R.R Tolkien and fairy tale truth', British
Journal of Aesthetics, 15 (Winter 1975), pages 81-92
- Turner, J., 'Reasons for liking Tolkien', London Review of Books,
23:22 (15 November 2001), pages 15-18, 20-4
- Unwin, Rayner, 'Taming the lord of the rings', Bookseller,
19 August 1988. pages 647-50
- Unwin, Rayner, 'The Hobbit 50th anniversary', Bookseller,
16 January 1987, pages 166-7
- Unwin, Rayner, 'Sentimental milestones on a road through Middle-earth',
Bookseller, 30 July 1977, pages 450-1
- Walter, Nicolas, 'Myth making', New Statesman, 30 October 1981,
page 24
- Watson, George, 'The roots of romance', Times Literary Supplement,
8 October 1982,
- Watson, J.R., 'The hobbits and the critics', Critical Quarterly,
13 (Autumn 1971), pages 252-8
- White, M., 'The First Hobbit', Sunday Times; 9 December 2001,
Section 4 pages 1-2
- Wood, Michael, 'Tolkien's fictions', New Society, 27 March
1969, pages 492-3
- 'The ring of romanticism', Times Literary Supplement, 8
June 1973
