Selected Works by J. R. R. Tolkien
Genres: Fiction (Adventure,
Fantasy, Epic, Children's literature); History & Philology; Literary
Criticism; Poetry; Translations
A Middle English Vocabulary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.
Beowulf:
The Monsters and the Critics. London: Oxford University Press,
1937.
ORBIS PR1585 .T6 1980
Rpt.
in The Beowulf Poet: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Donald K.
Fry. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
COCC Library PR1585 .F7; ORBIS PR1585 .F7
The Hobbit; or, There and
Back Again. London: Allen & Unwin, 1937; Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1938.
Revised edition: London: Allen & Unwin, 1951;
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 H6 1984; ORBIS PR6039.O32 H6
Farmer Giles of Ham.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1949; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 F37 1976
The Lord of the Rings (3
Parts; 1954-1967):
ORBIS PZ3.T576 Lo2 PR6039.O32; ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6x; ORBIS
PR6039.O32 L6 1965
The Fellowship of the
Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings. London: Allen
& Unwin, 1954; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. Revised edition:
London: Allen & Unwin, 1966; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. [Rpt. 1994]
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6 1993 pt.1
The Two Towers: Being the
Second Part of The Lord of the Rings. London: Allen & Unwin,
1954; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Revised edition: London: Allen
& Unwin, 1966; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6 1986 pt. 2
The Return of the King:
Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings. London: Allen &
Unwin, 1955; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. Revised edition: London:
Allen & Unwin, 1966; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6 1986 pt.3
The Adventures of Tom
Bombadil and Other Verses from The Red Book. London: Allen & Unwin,
1962; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 A6 1962
Tree and Leaf.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1964; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
ORBIS PN3437 .T6 1989
The Tolkien Reader.
New York: Ballantine, 1966.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 A6 1966b; ORBIS PR6039.O332 T64 1966
Smith of Wootton
Major. London: Allen & Unwin, 1967; Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1967.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 S6 1975
The Road Goes Ever On: A
Song Cycle, poems by Tolkien, music by Donald Swann. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1967; London: Allen & Unwin, 1968.
ORBIS M1621.4 .S9
Smith of Wootton Major and
Farmer Giles of Ham. New York: Ballantine, 1969.
The Father Christmas
Letters. Ed. Baillie Tolkien. London: Allen & Unwin, 1976;
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 F32 1991
The Silmarillion. Ed.
Christopher Tolkien. London: Allen & Unwin, 1977; Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1977.
Poems and Stories.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1980; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 A6 1994
Unfinished Tales of Númenor
and Middle-earth. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: Allen &
Unwin, 1980; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 U5
Finn and Hengest: The
Fragment and the Episode. Ed. Alan Bliss. London: Allen &
Unwin, 1982; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
ORBIS PR1714 .T64 1983
Mr. Bliss. London:
Allen & Unwin, 1982; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
ORBIS PZ 7 .T5744 M7 1983
The Monsters and the Critics
and Other Essays. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: Allen &
Unwin, 1983; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
ORBIS PE27 .T65 1983
The History of Middle-earth (12
vols., pub. posthumously 1983-1996):
The Book of Lost
Tales. 2 vols. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Volumes 1 and 2
of The History of Middle-earth. London: Allen & Unwin,
1983-1984; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983-1984.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 B6 1992; ORBIS PR6039.O32 B6 1984
The Lays of Beleriand.
Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Volume 3 of The History of Middle-earth.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1985; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L3 1985
The Shaping of
Middle-earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and Annals, Together with the
Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map. Ed. Christopher Tolkien.
Volume 4 of The History of Middle-earth. London: Allen & Unwin,
1986; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 S46 1986
The Lost Road and Other
Writings: Language and Legend before The Lord of the Rings. Ed.
Christopher Tolkien. Volume 5 of The History of Middle-earth.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1987; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L64 1987
The Return of the Shadow:
The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part I. Ed. Christopher
Tolkien. Volume 6 of The History of Middle-earth. London:
Unwin Hyman, 1988; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6374 1988b; ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6374 1988
The Treason of Isengard:
The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part II. Ed. Christopher Tolkien.
Volume 7 of The History of Middle-earth. London: Unwin Hyman,
1989; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6375 1989
The War of the Ring: The
History of the Lord of the Rings, Part III. Ed. Christopher Tolkien.
Volume 8 of The History of Middle-earth. London: Unwin Hyman,
1990; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
ORBIS PR6039 .O32 L6375 1990
Sauron Defeated: The End
of the Third Age (The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part IV). Ed.
Christopher Tolkien. Volume 9 of The History of Middle-earth.
London: HarperCollins, 1992; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
Morgoth's Ring: The Later
Silmarillion, Part One, The Legends of Aman. Ed. Christopher Tolkien.
Volume 10 of The History of Middle-earth. London: HarperCollins,
1993; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 M67 1993
The War of the Jewels: The
Later Silmarillion, Part Two, The Legends of Beleriand. Ed.
Christopher Tolkien. Volume 11 of The History of Middle-earth.
London: HarperCollins, 1994; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
ORBIS PR6039 .O32 W37 1994
The Peoples of
Middle-earth. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Volume 12 of The
History of Middle-earth. London: HarperCollins, 1996; Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Works
about J. R. R. Tolkien
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Bell, Judy Winn.
"The Language of J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings."
In Mythcon I Proceedings (4-7 September 1970).
Ed. Glen GoodKnight. Los
Angeles: Mythopoeic Society, 1971. 35-40.
Bisenieks, Dainis.
"The Hobbit Habit in the Critic's Eye."
Tolkien Journal 15 (Summer 1972): 14-15.
Blackwelder, Richard E.
A Tolkien Thesaurus. Garland
Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1326. New York: Garland,
1990.
ORBIS PR6039 .O32 Z49 1990
Bloom, Harold, ed.
J. R. R. Tolkien.
Modern Critical Interpretations Series. Philadelphia:
Chelsea House, 2000.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z56 2000
Bloom, Harold, ed. J. R. R.
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Modern Critical Interpretations
Series. Philadelphia:
Chelsea House, 2000.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6325 2000
[See also Tolkien Feature:
Literary Criticism of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]
Under Construction
Bradfield, J. C.
A Dictionary of Quenya and ProtopEldarin and AntepQuenya, with an
Index. Canterbury: J. Bradfield,
1983.
Bruner, Kurt D., and Jim
Ware. Finding God in The Lord of the Rings. Wheaton,
IL: Tyndale House, 2001.
Rotella, Mark, and Jeff Zaleski. Rev. of Finding God in the Lord of
the Rings, by Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware. Publishers Weekly
248.40 (1 Oct. 2001): 56.
Abstract: Authors Bruner and Ware hope "to help fans of The
Lord of the Rings discover how the rich fabric of Tolkien's fantasy
world enhances a Christian understanding of our real world."
Carpenter, Humphrey.
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and
Their Friends. London: Allen
& Unwin, 1978; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
ORBIS PR6023.E926 Z613 1979
Carpenter, Humphrey.
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1977; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
COCC Library PR6039.O32 Z62 1977
Carpenter,
Humphrey, and Christopher
Tolkien, eds.
The
Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selection.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1981; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
COCC Library PR6039.O32 Z48 1981
Carter, Lin.
"The Inklings Produce a Classic: The Achievement of Tolkien and His
Influence.” In Imaginary
Worlds: The Art of Fantasy. New
York: Ballantine, 1973. 109-130.
Chance, Jane.
The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power.
New York: Twayne, 1992.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6332 1992
Christensen, Bonniejean.
"Adventures in Manipulation."
English Journal, 60 (March 1971): 359-360.
Clark, George, and Daniel Timmons,
ed. J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of
Middle-earth. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy,
0193-6875; No. 89. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2000.
COCC Library PR6039.O32 Z6618 2000
Curry, Patrick. Defending
Middle-earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1997.
COCC Library PR6039.O32 Z626 1997
Davidson, Don Adrian.
"Sword and Sorcery Fiction: An Annotated Book List."
English Journal 61 (January 1972): 43-51.
Day, David.
Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia. New
York: Collier, 1992.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z634 1991
Dowie, William S. J.
"The Gospel of Middle Earth According to J. R. R. Tolkien."
Heythrop Journal, 15 (January 1974): 37-52.
Duriez, Colin.
“J. R. R. Tolkien.” Dictionary
of Literary Biography, Volume 160: British Children's Writers, 1914-1960. A
Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Ed.
Donald R. Hettinga and Gary D. Schmidt. Detroit:
The Gale Group, 1996. 254-271. Rpt. Gale Literature Resource Center [Online
Database]. The Gale Group, 2002.
Duriez, Colin. The J. R. R.
Tolkien Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to His Life, Writings, and World of
Middle-earth. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1992.
Ellwood, Gracia Fay.
"The Good Guys and the Bad Guys." Tolkien Journal 3 (November 1969): 9-11.
Epstein, E. L.
"The Novels of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnology of Medieval
Christendom." Philological
Quarterly 48 (1969): 517-525.
Evans, Robley.
J. R. R. Tolkien. New
York: Warner, 1972.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z64 1976
Flieger, Verlyn. A Question of
Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie.
Kent, OH : Kent State University Press, 1997.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z646 1997
Flieger, Verlyn, and Carl F. Hostetter,
ed. Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 H5727 2000
Fonstad, Karen Wynn.
The Atlas of Middle-earth. Rev. ed. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
ORBIS G3122.M5 F6 1991
Forbes, Cheryl.
"Answers about Middle-earth."
Christianity Today 22 (7 October 1977): 30-31.
Foster, Robert.
The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth.
Rev. & enlarged ed.
New York:
Ballantine, 1979.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z49 1979
Fredrick, Candice, and Sam
McBride. Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien,
and Charles Williams. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
ORBIS PR478.I54 F74 2001
George,
Michael W. “J. R. R. Tolkien: January
3, 1892 – September 2, 1973.” Dictionary
of Literary Biography, Volume 255: British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers,
1918-1960. A Bruccoli Clark
Layman Book. Ed. Darren Harris
Fain. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 237-250.
Rpt. Gale Literature Resource Center [Online Database].
The Gale Group, 2002.
Glover, Willis B.
"The Christian Character of Tolkien's Invented World."
Criticism 13 (1971): 39-53.
Grotta, Daniel. The Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien
: Architect of Middle-Earth. 2nd ed. Philadelphia
: Running Press, 1978.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z65 1978
Grotta-Kurska, Daniel.
J. R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth.
New York: Warner, 1976.
Hammond, Wayne G.
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Winchester, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies / New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll
Books, 1993.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z654 1993
Hammond, Wayne G., and Christina
Scull. J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995.
ORBIS N6797.T64 H36 1995
Harvey, David. The Song of Middle-earth: J. R. R.
Tolkien's Themes, Symbols, and Myths. London : Allen & Unwin, 1985.
ORBIS PR6039.O32Z658 1985
Helms, Randel.
Tolkien's World. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z66
Isaacs, Neil D., and Rose A. Zimbardo,
eds. Tolkien and the Critics:
Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L634
James, Edward. “J. R. R. Tolkien: Overview.” St. James Guide to Fantasy
Writers. Ed. David Pringle. St. James Press, 1996.
Rpt.
Gale
Literature Resource Center
[Online Database]. The Gale Group, 2002.
Johnson, Judith Anne.
J. R. R. Tolkien: Six Decades of Criticism. Westport,
CN: Greenwood Press, 1986.
ORBIS Z8883.45 .J63 1986
Kocher, Paul H.
Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z67
Kolich,
Augustus M. “J. R. R. Tolkien.”
Dictionary
of Literary Biography, Volume 15: British Novelists, 1930-1959. A
Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Ed.
Bernard Oldsey. Detroit: Gale,
1983. 520-530.
Rpt. Gale Literature Resource Center [Online Database].
The Gale Group, 2002.. A
Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Ed.
Bernard Oldsey. Detroit: Gale,
1983. 520-530.
Rpt. Gale Literature Resource Center [Online Database].
The Gale Group, 2002.
Lobdell, Jared. England and Always: Tolkien's
World of the Rings. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1981.
ORBIS PR6039.O32L635
Lobdell, Jared, ed.
A Tolkien Compass: including J. R. R.
Tolkien's
Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings. La
Salle, IL: Open Court, 1975. Rpt. New York : Ballantine Books, 1980.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z69 1975a
Nitzsche, Jane Chance.
Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England.
London: Macmillan, 1979.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z698 1979
Noel, Ruth S.
The Mythology of Middle-earth: A Study of Tolkien's Mythology and Its
Relationship to the Myths of the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson, 1977.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z72
Noel, Ruth S. The Languages of
Tolkien's Middle-earth. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z715 1980
Pearce, Joseph. Tolkien: Man and Myth.
London : HarperCollins, 1998.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z77 1998x
Woodard, Joe. “In Defence of Middle Earth.” Rev. of
Tolkien: Man and Myth, by Joseph Pearce.
Alberta Report / Newsmagazine
14 June 1999: 40 (2pp.).
Rpt.
EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite,
2002; Article No.
1925868.
Subtitle: “Why J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Is So
Popular—and So Hated by the Literati.”
Excerpts: Joseph Pearce’s literary biography claims that “Tolkien's
masterwork has been underrated by the intelligentsia for the very good
reason that they no longer understand ‘myth,’ which the modern world
considers merely a kind of salutary lie or folk error. However, for
Tolkien (and for most of humankind) myth is the fundamental means, and the
most effective, by which we mortals can express the bedrock truths of our
existence.” Another key reason why modern literary critics may have
underrated or rejected the value Tolkien’s mythic trilogy is because it is
“essentially Christian in character.”
Ready, William.
Understanding Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings. New York: Warner Paperbacks, 1969.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z8 1969
Rogers, Deborah Webster, and Ivor A.
Rogers. J. R. R. Tolkien. Boston:
Twayne, 1980.
COCC Library PR6039.O32 Z816
Rosebury, Brian. Tolkien: A
Critical Assessment. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan; & New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z818 1992
Rossi, Lee D. The Politics of
Fantasy: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Ann Arbor, Mich. :
UMI Research Press, 1984.
ORBIS PR888.F3R67 1984
Salu, Mary, and Robert T. Farrell, eds.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z665
Sammons, Martha C. "A Better Country": The
Worlds of Religious Fantasy and Science Fiction. New York: Greenwood
Press, 1988.
ORBIS PR830.F3 S35 1988
Shippey, T. A.
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century.
London: HarperCollins, 2000; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z823 2000
Jenkyns, Richard. Rev.
of J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, by T. A. Shippey.
The New Republic 28 Jan. 2002: 26-30. Rpt.
WilsonSelectPlus, Accession No.
BRDG02008431.
Excerpts: Shippey "burns with generous indignation at the scorn
with which many literary critics have treated Tolkien, and his subtitle,
'Author of the Century,' is meant to provoke." Jenkyns discerns
"three main strands" in Shippey's book: Shippey applies his
expertise as medievalist and philologist to track Tolkien's sources and
creative processes; second, Shippey argues for the moral depth,
psychological richness, and technical skill of Tolkien's works; finally
Shippey convicts Tolkien's critics "of snobbery, elitism, professional
jealousy, and other kinds of bad faith. It is all very lively: a clear,
forceful, engaging, ingenious, sometimes wrongheaded book."
Person, James E. “Lord
of the Rings Author Leads the 20th Century in Critic’s
Reckoning.” Rev. of J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, by
T. R Shippey. The Washington Times, Sunday Final ed., 2 Sept.
2001: Prt B: Books - B8. Rpt.
Lexis Nexis Academic
Universe.
Excerpt: “…it
is worth considering that the parables of Tolkien have endured and even
grown in popularity and critical acceptance since their hopeful
publication at mid-century”; and “their continuing influence and their
timeless quality … lend weight to Mr. Shippey's thesis: that J. R. R.
Tolkien … was indeed the author of the century, finding fruition in the
minds of intelligent men and women worldwide who recognize that, in truth,
imagination rules the world.”
Wood, Ralph. “Frodo Lives!” Rev. of J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the
Century, by Tom Shippey. Christian Century 21 Nov. 2001. Rpt.
EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, 2002:
Article No. 5739440.
Except: “Shippey contends that Tolkien is the quintessential
author of the 20th century--the century when perhaps 180 million people
were slaughtered, causing Pope John Paul II to speak of our ‘culture of
death.’ Tolkien, according to Shippey, offers what allegedly
greater writers do not: a convincing narrative and mythological
confrontation with the unprecedented violence and horror of late-modern
life, yet without despairing over the victory of the forces of goodness
and life.”
Stanton, Michael N.
Hobbits,
Elves, and Wizards: Exploring the Wonders and Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien's The
Lord of the Rings. New York: Palgrave - St. Martin's Press, 2001.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 L6372 2001
Stevens, David, and Carol D. Stevens.
J. R. R. Tolkien--The Art of the Myth-Maker. Rev.
ed. San Bernardino, CA: R.
Reginald, 1993.
Stimpson, Catharine.
J. R. R. Tolkien. Columbia
Essays of Modern Writers, no. 41. New
York & London: Columbia University Press, 1969.
ORBIS PR6039.O32 Z83
Tolkien, John, and Priscilla Tolkien.
The Tolkien Family Album. London:
HarperCollins, 1992.
ORBIS PR6039 .O32 Z845 1992
West, Richard C.
Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist.
Rev. ed. Kent, Ohio:
Kent State University Press, 1981.
ORBIS Z8883.45 .W45
Yates, Jessica. “J. R. R. Tolkien: Overview.” In Twentieth-Century
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