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STAGES OF IMAGINATION

– BIBLIOGRAPHY –


Primary Works
Secondary Works
Further Reading

Primary Works:


Tolkien, J.R.R., ed. Christopher Tolkien, "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics", in The Monsters & the Critics and Other Essays, HarperCollins, London, 1997

Tolkien, J.R.R., ed. Christopher Tolkien, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Pearl - Sir Orfeo, Ballantine Books, New York, 1980

Tolkien, J.R.R., ed. Christopher Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories”, in The Monsters & the Critics and Other Essays, HarperCollins, London, 1997

Tolkien, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings, HarperCollins, London, 1991, one-volume edition.

Tolkien, J.R.R., ed. Christopher Tolkien, The Silmarillion, HarperCollins, London, 1998-edition

Tolkien, J.R.R., ed. Christopher Tolkien, Unfinished Tales, HarperCollins, London, 1998

Secondary Works:


Barbour, Douglas "John Ronald Reuel Tolkien", an article in Bleiler, E.F. ed., Supernatural Fiction Writers - Fantasy and Horror, vol. 2, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1985

Bates, Brian, The Real Middle-earth - Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages, Sidgwick and Jackson an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, 2002

"Battle of Maldon, The", Anglo-Saxon Poetry, ed. Gordon, R.K., Everyman’s Library, London, 1964

"Beowulf", Anglo-Saxon Poetry, ed. Gordon, R.K., Everyman’s Library, London, 1964

Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, FontanaPress HarperCollins, London, 1993

Carpenter, Humphrey, J.R.R. Tolkien - A Biography, HarperCollins, London, 1995

------, ed., The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, HarperCollins, London, 2nd ed., 1995

Chance, Jane, The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power, University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 2nd rev. ed., 2001

Clark, George & Timmons, Daniel, ed., J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances - Views on Middle-earth, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, 2000

Clute, John & John Grant, eds., The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, St Martin's, New York, 1997

Cuddon, J.A., Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, Penguin Books, London, 3rd ed., 1992

Curry, Patrick, Defending Middle-earth - Tolkien: Myth and Modernity, HarperCollins, London, 1997

Drabble, Margaret, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford UP, 5th ed., 2nd revision, 1998

Dunsany, Lord, The King of Elfland's Daughter, Fantasy Masterworks, Gollancz - Orion Publishing Group, London, 2001

Ebbutt, M.I., ed. & intro. John Matthews, Hero Myths & Legends of Britain & Ireland, Brockhampton Press, London, 1998

Flieger, Verlyn, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faërie, Kent State UP, Kent, Ohio, 1st paperback edition, 2001

Flieger, Verlyn & Hostetter, Carl F., eds., Tolkien's Legendarium - Essays on The History of Middle-earth, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, 2000

Isaacs, Neil D., & Zimbardo, Rose A., eds., Tolkien and the Critics, University of Notre Dame Press, 3rd printing, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1970

Purtill, Richard, Lord of The Elves and Eldils - Fantasy and Philosophy in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1974

Shippey, T.A., The Road to Middle-earth, HarperCollins, London, 2nd ed. 1992

------ , J.R.R. Tolkien: Writer of the Century, HarperCollins, London, 2000

Turner, Jenny, "Reasons For Liking Tolkien", London Review of Books, Nov. 2001, online at: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n22/turn03_.html

Further Reading:


Carpenter, Humphrey, The Inklings – C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their friends, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1978

Chance, Jane, Tolkien's Art: A 'Mythology for England.', rev. ed. University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 2001

Flieger, Verlyn, Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, 2nd rev. ed, 2001

Helms, Randel, Tolkien and the Silmarils - Imaginaton and Myth in The Silmarillion, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1981

Isaacs, Neil D., & Zimbardo, Rose A., eds., Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1981

Kalevala: The Land of Heroes, compiled by Elias Lönnrot, 1849. Translated by F. Kirby, J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1907  (Tolkien's first edition - which fascinated him even "in Kirby's poor translation"…)

Noel, Ruth S., The Mythology of Middle-earth, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1977

Reynold's, Patricia and Glen GoodKnight, eds., Proceedings  of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, Milton Keynes: Tolkien Society, and Altadena, Calif.: Mythopoeic Press, 1995

Sayer, George, Jack: C.S. Lewis and his Times, Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1988

Salu, Mary and Robert T. Farrel, eds., J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller, Cornell UP, Ithaca NY, 1979

White, Michael, Tolkien - A Biography, Little, Brown and Company, London, 2001
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