Tolkien as Medievalist: A Bibliography

Intended to supplement Leslie A. Donovan’s April 4, 2007, lecture titled “Tolkien as Medievalist,” the following is a brief bibliography on Tolkien and his works as well as works by Tolkien that suggest reflections on his created worlds.

Burns, Marjorie. Perilous Realms: Celtic And Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Carpenter, Humphrey. Tolkien: A Biography. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. Chance, Jane. Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England. Rev. ed. Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2001. Chance, Jane, ed. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. -----, ed. Tolkien the Medievalist. London: Routledge, 2002. -----, ed. Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Clark, George, and Daniel Timmons, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 89. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Donovan, Leslie A. “The Valkyrie Reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen.” In Tolkien The Medievalist. Ed. Jane Chance. New York: Routledge, 2002. 106-32. Flieger, Verlyn and Carl F. Hostetter, eds. Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle- earth. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 86. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2000. Korster, Katie de, ed. Readings on J. R. R. Tolkien. The Greenhaven Press Literary Companion to British Authors series. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Lee, Stuart, and Elizabeth Solopova, Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Shippey, Tom. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. London: HarperCollins, 2000. -----. The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Tolkien, J.R.R. Beowulf and the Critics. Edited by Michael D.C. Drout. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Vol. 248. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter, with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. Tolkien, J.R.R. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo. New York: Del Rey, 1979. Tolkien, J.R.R. A Tolkien Reader. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. Turgon, and Verlyn Flieger, eds. The Tolkien Fan's Medieval Reader: Versions in Modern Prose. New York: Cold Spring Press, 2004. Zimbardo, Rose A, and Neil D. Isaacs. Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Tolkien the Medievalist is a collection of essays edited by Jane Chance. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's medievalism. Fifteen essays explore how professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal. 1. Jane Chance: "Introduction". PART I: J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts. 2. Douglas A. Anderson: "'An industrious little devil': E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien". This is a list of the published works of the English writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. 1937 The Hobbit or There and Back Again, ISBN 0-618-00221-9 (HM). 1945 "Leaf by Niggle" (short story), published in The Dublin Review. 1945 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (poem), published in The Welsh Review. 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham (medieval fable). 1953 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (a play written in alliterative verse), published with the accompanying essays Beorhtnoth's Death and Ofermod Tolkien bibliography. Thread starter Valinorean. Start date Oct 17, 2002. The author of the bibliography you refer to is Johann Köberl, a renowned Austrian medievalist and Tolkien scholar. And aside from the bibliography you mention, he provides a few more - very interesting - Tolkien-related documents on his homepage. Highly recommendable is also his material regarding Beowulf. As for a Tolkien bibliography the one in the appendix of Carpenter's Tolkien Biography, should suffice for most Tolkien fans, but if that is not enough, Wayne G. Hammond's and Douglas Anderson's J.R.R. Tolkien - A descriptive Bibliography is still "state of the art". This bibliography at the Tolkien Bibliography. Poems. 1911 “The Battle of the Eastern Fieldsâ€.​ in King Edward’s School Chronicle, Birmingham, N.S., vol. 26, no. 186, pp. 22-26. [Tolkien’s translation of it was later published in Sir Gawain, the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo]. 1947 “Iþþlen in Sawles Wardeâ€.​ d’Ardenne S. R. T. O. and J. R. R. Tolkien. in English Studies, Amsterdam, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 168 – 170. 1948 “MS Bodley 34: A re-collation of a collationâ€.​ d’Ardenne S. R. T. O. and J. R. R. Tolkien. in Studia Neophilologica, Uppsala, vol. 20, no. 1/2, pp. 65 – 72. 1953 “Form and Purposeâ€.​ in Pearl. ed. Gordon, E. V. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 186 pp. [An annotated bibliography]. Michael W. Perry. Untangling Tolkien: A Chronology and Commentary for The Lord of. the Rings. Seattle: Inkling Books, 2003. Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond. The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. [1. Reader’s Guide.—2. Chronology]. The Uncharted Realms of Tolkien: A Critical Study of. the Text, Context, and Subtext in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Weston Rhyn, UK: Medea Publishing, 2002. Joseph Pearce. Tolkien: Man and Myth. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1998. „Tolkien, medievalism, and the philological tradition.‰ Bells Chiming from the Past: Cultural and Linguistic Studies on Early English , edited by Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel and Begona Crespo-Garcia, Rodopi, 2007, pp. 265-79. Thompkins, J. Case. „ÂThe Homecoming of Beorhtnoth BeorhthelmÊs SonÊ: Tolkien as a Modern Anglo-Saxon.‰ Mythlore, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 67-74. Discusses the OE-influenced prosody and themes of the story, but contrasts these with its modern dialogue and other contemporary conventions. Tolkien the Medievalist is a collection of essays edited by Jane Chance. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's medievalism. Fifteen essays explore how professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal. 1. Jane Chance: "Introduction". PART I: J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts. 2. Douglas A. Anderson: "'An industrious little devil': E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien". This is a list of the published works of the English writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. 1937 The Hobbit or There and Back Again, ISBN 0-618-00221-9 (HM). 1945 "Leaf by Niggle" (short story), published in The Dublin Review. 1945 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (poem), published in The Welsh Review. 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham (medieval fable). 1953 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (a play written in alliterative verse), published with the accompanying essays Beorhtnoth's Death and Ofermod...