Tolkien library comparisons
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:59 pm
It's time, I think for some renewed Wardrobe attention to J. R. R. T.
Accordingly, I invite a Tolkien library comparison.
Here's my list of Tolkien works (including posthumous):
Beowulf and the Critics
The Children of Hurin
[The History of Middle-earth, Volumes I through XII:]
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
The Lays of Beleriand
The Shaping of Middle-earth
The Lost Road and Other Writings
The Return of the Shadow
The Treason of Isengard
The War of the Ring
Sauron Defeated, The Notion Club Papers and the Drowning of Anadune
Morgoth’s Ring
The War of the Jewels
The Peoples of Middle-earth
The Hobbit
Letters from Father Christmas
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
The Silmarillion
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham
The Tolkien Reader
Tree and Leaf including the poem Mythopoeia, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
Unfinished Tales
And here...
Secondary literature (selective list):
Humphrey Carpenter, J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography
Patrick Currey, Defending Middle-earth
Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion
Verlyn Flieger, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology
Verlyn Fleiger, Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World
Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War
Neil Isaacs and Rose Zimbardo, Tolkien and the Critics
Paul Kocher, Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. Tolkien
Fleming Rutledge, The Battle for Middle-earth
[Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond, The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide:]
Chronology
Reader’s Guide
Tom Shippey, J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth
Christopher Tolkien, The History of Middle-earth Index
Ralph Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien
Oh, and also Hammond and Scull's J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator--as well as Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Altas of Middle-earth.
How about others?
Accordingly, I invite a Tolkien library comparison.
Here's my list of Tolkien works (including posthumous):
Beowulf and the Critics
The Children of Hurin
[The History of Middle-earth, Volumes I through XII:]
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
The Lays of Beleriand
The Shaping of Middle-earth
The Lost Road and Other Writings
The Return of the Shadow
The Treason of Isengard
The War of the Ring
Sauron Defeated, The Notion Club Papers and the Drowning of Anadune
Morgoth’s Ring
The War of the Jewels
The Peoples of Middle-earth
The Hobbit
Letters from Father Christmas
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
The Silmarillion
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham
The Tolkien Reader
Tree and Leaf including the poem Mythopoeia, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
Unfinished Tales
And here...
Secondary literature (selective list):
Humphrey Carpenter, J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography
Patrick Currey, Defending Middle-earth
Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion
Verlyn Flieger, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology
Verlyn Fleiger, Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World
Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War
Neil Isaacs and Rose Zimbardo, Tolkien and the Critics
Paul Kocher, Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. Tolkien
Fleming Rutledge, The Battle for Middle-earth
[Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond, The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide:]
Chronology
Reader’s Guide
Tom Shippey, J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth
Christopher Tolkien, The History of Middle-earth Index
Ralph Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien
Oh, and also Hammond and Scull's J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator--as well as Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Altas of Middle-earth.
How about others?