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J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selective Bibliography Primary Works Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, vol. 1st American, Houghton Mifflin, 1977. ---. Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth. Book Club ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Tolkien, J. R. R., Humphrey Carpenter, and Christopher Tolkien. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Tolkien, J. R. R., and Christopher Tolkien. The Book of Lost Tales. 1st American ed. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. ---. The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. ---. The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals. 1st Ballantine Books edition., Ballantine Books, 1986. -----. The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend Before “the Lord of the Rings.” Houghton Mifflin, 1987. ---. The Return of the Shadow : The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part One. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. ---. Tree and Leaf : Including the Poem Mythopoeia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. ---. The Treason of Isengard : The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989. ---. Morgoth's Ring : The Later Silmarillion . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. -----. The Peoples of Middle-Earth. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, 1996. ---. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien : A Selection. 1st Houghton Mifflin pbk. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000. ---. The End of the Third Age : The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four. 1st Houghton Mifflin pbk. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. ---. The War of the Ring : The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three. 1st Houghton Mifflin pbk. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selective Bibliography--2 ---. The History of the Hobbit. 2 vols. Ed. John D Rateliff. London: HarperCollins, 2007. Print. ---. Narn i Chîn Húrin: The Tale of the Children of Húrin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. -----. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun Together with the Corrigan Poems. Edited by Verlyn Flieger, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016. ---. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. HarperCollins, 2009. ---. The Fall of Arthur. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2013. Print. -----, The Story of Kullervo. Edited by Verlyn Flieger, First U.S. edition., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. -----, Beren and Lúthien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, First U.S. edition., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. ---. The Fall of Gondolin. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, First U.S. edition., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. Archival Collection The J.R.R. Tolkien Collection (Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI): for information about holdings and access, see the Special Collections website < https://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/tolkien.php>. Scholarship Anderson, Douglas A. Tales before Tolkien : The Roots of Modern Fantasy. 1st ed. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2003. Arvidsson, Stefan. “Greed and the Nature of Evil: Tolkien Versus Wagner.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 22 (2010): 21 paragraphs. Print. Blaszkiewicz, Bartlomiej. "Tolkien's Evil Kings." Anglica (Poland) (2003): 67. Brackmann, Rebecca. “‘Dwarves Are Not Heroes’: Antisemitism and the Dwarves in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Writing.” Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 28 (2010): 85–106. Print. Butler, / Catherine. “Tolkien and Worldbuiding / Catherine.” J.R.R. Tolkien : The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, edited by Peter Hunt, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. 106–20. J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selective Bibliography--3 Carpenter, Humphrey. Tolkien : A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Chance, Jane. The Lord of the Rings : The Mythology of Power. Rev. ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. ---. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth : A Reader. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. ---. Tolkien the Medievalist. Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture ; 3. London ; New York: Routledge, 2003. Clark, George. J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resources. Westport, Ct; London: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. Viii, 213. (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 89.). Ed. Daniel Timmons, 2000. Collins, Robert A. "'Ainulindale': Tolkien's Commitment to an Aesthetic Ontology." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (2000): 257. Croft, Janet Brennan. War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, No. 106. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. ---. “Tolkien’s Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions.” Mythlore (2014): 33-47. Print Downs, Jack M. “‘Radiant and Terrible’: Tolkien’s Heroic Women as Correctives to the Romance and Epic Traditions.” A Quest of Her Own: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy. Ed. Lori M. Campbell. McFarland, 2014. 55–75. Drout, Michael D C, Namiko Hitotsubashi, and Rachel Scavera. “Tolkien’s Creation of the Impression of Depth.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 11 (2014): 167–211. Web Eden, Bradford Lee, ed. Middle-Earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co, 2010. Print. Ekman, Stefan. “Echoes of Pearl in Arda’s Landscape.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 6 (2009): 59–70. Print. Fimi, Dimitra. Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits. Basingstoke [England] ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Print. Flieger, Verlyn. A Question of Time : J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997. Flieger, Verlyn, and Carl F. Hostetter. Tolkien's Legendarium : Essays on the History of Middle- Earth. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, No. 86. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selective Bibliography--4 Flieger, Verlyn. Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology. Kent State University Press, 2005. -----. “The Music and the Task: Fate and Free Will in Middle-Earth.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 6 (2009): 151–181. Print. -----. Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on Tolkien. Kent State University Press, 2012. Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford University Press, 1975. Garth, John. Tolkien and the Great War : The Threshold of Middle-Earth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Hammond, Wayne G., Christina Scull, and ebrary, Inc, eds. The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder. Milwaukee, Wis: Marquette University Press, 2006. (electronic resource, GMU).. Hanks, D. Thomas. “‘A Far Green Country Under a Swift Sunrise’: Tolkien’s Eucatastrophe and Malory’s ‘Morte Darthur’.” Fifteenth-Century Studies 36 (2011): 49–64. Print. Hiley, Margaret. "Stolen Language, Cosmic Models: Myth and Mythology in Tolkien." Modern Fiction Studies (Dept of English, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN) 50.4 (2004): 838. Houghton, John William. “Augustine in the Cottage of Lost Play: The Ainulindäle as Asterisk Cosmogony.” Tolkien the Medievalist, edited by Jane Chance, Routledge, 2003, pp. 171–82. Houghton, John William et al., eds. Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014. Print. Isaacs, Neil David, and Rose A. Zimbardo. Tolkien, New Critical Perspectives. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1981. Johnson, Judith Anne. J.R.R. Tolkien : Six Decades of Criticism. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1986. Jones, Leslie Ellen. Myth & Middle-Earth. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Press, 2002. Kane, Douglas Charles. Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion. Bethlehem [Pa.]: Lehigh University Press, 2009. Print. Kane, Douglas C. “Law and Arda.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 9 (2012): 37– 57. Print. Kerry, Paul E, ed. The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. Madison [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011. Print. J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selective Bibliography--5 Kerry, Paul E. “Tracking Catholic Influence in The Lord of the Rings.” The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011. 234–245. Print. Kim, Sue. "Beyond Black and White: Race and Postmodernism in the Lord of the Rings Films." Modern Fiction Studies 50.4 (2004): 875. Ladd, Roger A. “Divine Contagion: On the Nature of Power in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.” Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien’s Work. Ed. Paul E. Kerry & Sandra Miesel. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011. 33–45. Gale. Web. 21 May 2013. Mathews, Richard. Lightning from a Clear Sky : Tolkien, the Trilogy, and the Silmarillion. 1st ed. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1978. Mitchell, Jesse. “Master of Doom by Doom Mastered: Heroism, Fate, and Death in The Children of Húrin.” Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 29 (2010): 87–114. Print. Mitchell, Philip Irving. “‘Legend and History Have Met and Fused’: The Interlocution of Anthropology, Historiography, and Incarnation in J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘On Fairy-stories’.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 8 (2011): 1–21. Print. Petty, Anne C. One Ring to Bind Them All : Tolkien's Mythology. University: University of Alabama Press, 1979. Rateliff, John D. “Inside Literature: Tolkien’s Explorations of Medieval Genres.” Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey. Ed. John William Houghton et al. McFarland, 2014. 133–152. Web. Rearick, Anderson, III. "Why Is the Only Good Orc a Dead Orc? The Dark Face of Racism
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  • Tolkien Bibliography

    Tolkien Bibliography

    Tolkien Bibliography This bibliography includes those entries in the MLA bibliography that contain the word “Tolkien”. Since the full title of Mythlore is Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the Genres of Myth and Fantasy Studies and of Mallorn is Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society some of these titles are not about Tolkien. Still, it may be useful to have it. Aadnanes, Per M. "Diktekunsten og eventyrlandet." Edda (1977): 227-35. Abbott, Joe. "Tolkien's Monsters: Concept and Function in The Lord of the Rings (Part 1): The Balrog of Khazad-dum." Mythlore 16.1 (59) (1989): 19-26. ---. "Tolkien's Monsters: Concept and Function in The Lord of the Rings, II: Shelob the Great; III: Sauron." Mythlore 16.2 (60) (1989): 40-47. Adderley, C.M. "Preliminary Matters: The Neglected Preludes to Charles Williams' Arthuriad." Mythlore 21.1 (79) (1995): 23-28. ---. "Meeting Morgan le Fay: J. R. R. Tolkien's Theory of Subcreation and the Secondary World of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Mythlore 22.4 (86) (2000): 48-58. Agoy, Nils Ivar. "Mr. Bliss: The Precursor of a Precursor." Mallorn 20 (Sept. 1983): 25-27. ---. "Tolkien in Norway." Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur and Ästhetik. 3 (1985): 159-67. ---. "Quid Hinieldus cum Christo? New Perspectives on Tolkien's Theological Dilemma and His Sub-Creation Theory." Mythlore 33.2 (80) (1996): 31-38. Aldrich, Kevin. "The Sense of Time in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." Mythlore 15.1 (55) (1988): 5-9. Algeo, John.