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The Hobbit: Jennifer's Annotated Hobbit, 1998

An Animated Hobbit in Three Acts, 2000

The Fellowship of the Ring:

• The Story of Balin and his Dwarves in the Mines of Moria, 1998

The Two Towers:

• Treebeard, 1998
• The Palantiri, 1998
• The Istari, 2000

The Return of the King:

• Eowyn the Warrior, 1998

A Tolkien LOTR Game:

• Guide to "Tolkien's World," a trick-based card game, 2000

The Silmarillion:

• Understanding the Valar, 2000

Tolkien's Influence:

• Tolkien and Led Zeppelin, 1998

Class reading list

Readings (both required and recommended texts) will also be placed on reserve

• J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters, ed. Humphrey Carpenter (Houghton Mifflin) PR6039. O32 Z48 1981
• _____________,The Hobbit, rev. ed. (Ballantine, 1982; rpt. 1989)
• E. Talbot Donaldson, trans. Beowulf (Norton), pb. PRI583. D6 1966
• _____________,Tolkien Reader, 2^nd ed. (Ballantine, 1988), pb PR 6039.O32T6 1966
• _____________,The Fellowship of the Ring (Ballantine, 1986), pb.
• Karen Wynn Fonstad, The Atlas of Middle-earth-G3122.M5 F61991
• J. R. R. Tolkien,The Two Towers (Ballantine, 1988), pb
• _____________,Unfinished Tales (Ballantine, 1988), pb.
• _____________,Return of the King (Ballantine, 1988), pb
• Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, ed. J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
• J. R. R. Tolkien,The Silmarillion (Ballantine, 1985), pb. PR 6039.O32 S5 1977
• J. R. Tolkien, "Mythopoeia," and "Introduction," in Tree and Leaf, ed. Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, 1989), pp. 5-8, 97-101

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  Recommended:
• Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenner, Bored of the Rings (Penguin)
• David Day, Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia (Collier,1997), pb.
• Richard Foster, Complete Guide to Middle-earth: From the Hobbit to the Silmarillion (Ballantine) PR6039.032 Z491993

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On Reserve

(in addition to works listed above):

• J.R.R. Tolkien, Book of Lost Tales PR6039.O32B6 1984
• ____________, Lays of Beleriand PR6039.O32 L3 1985
• ____________, The Old English Exodus PR1609.A3T6 1981
• ____________, Father Christmas Letters PR6039.O32F38 1991
• ____________, Lays of Beleriand PR6039.O32 L3 1985
• ____________, Lost Road and Other Writings PR6039.O32 L64 198
• _____________, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Houghton Mifflin, 1984) PE27.T651984
• ____________, Morgoth's Ring (on order)
• ______________, Peoples of Middle-earth, 1997 (on order)
• ____________, Pictures N6797.T64 A4 1992
• ____________, Return of the Shadow PR6039.O32 L6374 1
• ____________, Sauron Defeated: The End of the Third Age PR6039.O32 L63743 1992b
• ____________, The Shaping of Mddle-earth PR6039.O32 S46 1986b

  ____________, Treason of Isengard PR6039.O32 L63751

• ____________, Tree and Leaf PN3437. T6 1965
• ____________, War of the Ring PR6039.O32L6377 1990b

• Humphrey Carpenter, Tolkien: A Biography PR6039.O32 Z62 1977

• Jane Chance, The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power PR6039 .O32L6332 1992
• _______ (Nitzsche), Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England PR6039.O32Z6981979
  
• David Day, The Illustrated Encyclopedia PR6039.O32 Z634 1991
• The Tolkien Companion PR6039.O32 Z49 1993b
  
• E. T. Donaldson, trans. Beowulf PRI583.D6
  
• Colin Duriez, The J.R.R.Tolkien Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to his Life, Writings, and the World of Middle-earth PR6039.032 Z639 1992
• Verlyn Flieger, Splintered Light PR6039.032 S5325 1983
• Robert Giddings, J. R. R. Tolkien PR6039.032 L6337 1982
• Glen Goodknight, ed. Mythcon I Proceedings (1971)
• R.Gordon, Anglo-Saxon Poetry
• William Green, The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturi1y. PR6039.032 Z646 1995
• Randel Helm, Tolkien's World PR6039.032 Z66
• Neil Isaacs and Rose Zimbardo, ed. Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives(Univ. Kentucky Press, 1981) PR6039.032 Z85
  
• Judith A. Johnson, J.R.R. Tolkien: Six Decades of Criticism Z8883.45J631986
• Jared Lobdell, A Tolkien Compass (Rpt. Ballantine) PR6039. O32Z69 1975
• T.A. Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth PR6039.032 Z8241983
• Barbara Strachey, Journeys of Frodo: An Atlas G3122.M5 S7 1992
• Donald Swann, The Road Goes Ever On M 1 621.4 . S93
• John and Priscilla Tolkien, The Tolkien Family Album PR6039.032 Z845 1992
  
• Rayner Unwin, The Making of the Lord of the Rings
• Tolkien Remembered (videorecording) PR6039.032 Z855 1993
• J.E.A. Tyler, The Tolkien Companion PR6039.032 Z49
• Richard West, Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist, 2nd ed. (Kent State, 1981) Z8883.4S.W45 1981

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  Outside reading list

  (Essays also available at the Reserve Room of Fondren Library)
  • J. R. R. Tolkien,"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays [Houghton Mifflin, 1984], pp. 5-48)
  • Tolkien, "On Translating Beowulf" (Monsters, pp. 49-71)
  • Tolkien, trans., Old English Exodus (in The Old English Exodus [Oxford, 1981], pp. 20-35)
  • Tolkien, "A Secret Vice" (in Monsters, pp. 198-223 )
  • Tolkien, "Valedictory Address"(in Monsters, pp. 224-240)
  • Joe Abbott, "Tolkien’s Monsters: Concept and Function in LOTR (Part II)," Mythlore 60 (Winter, 1989): 40-47
  • Kathleen Dubs, "Providence, Fate and Chance: Boethian Philosophy in LOTR," Twentieth-Century Literature 27 (1981): 34-42
  • Verlyn Flieger, "Frodo and Aragorn: the Concept of Hero," in Neil Isaacs and Rose Zimbardo, eds., Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives (U. Kentucky Press, 1981), pp. 40-62.
  • David Callaway, "Gollum: A Misunderstood Hero," Mythlore 37 (1984): 14-17, 22 (On reserve)
  • R. V. Gordon, trans. The Battle of Maldon (in Anglo-Saxon Poetry [Everyman/Dent], pp. 329-334)
  • Carl F. Hostetter, "Over Middle-earth Sent Unto Men: On the Philological Origins of Earendel Myth," Mythlore 65 (Spring, 1991): 5-8.
  • (B) "Kalevala" (Excerpts), from Kalevala, ed. W.F. Kirby (version Tolkien read)(E.P. Dutton, 1907), pp. 69-125.
  • Catherine Madsen, "Light from an Invisible Lamp: Natural Religion in LOTR," Mythlore 53 (Spring, 1988): 43-7.
  • Melanie Rawls, "The Feminine Principle in Tolkien," Mythlore 38 (Spring, 1984): 5-13.
  • Melanie Rawls, "The Rings of Power," Mythlore 40 (1984): 29-32.
  • R. J. Reilly, "Tolkien and the Fairy Story," in Tolkien and the Critics, ed. N. Isaacs and R. Zimbardo (Univ. Notre Dame Press, 1968), pp. 128-150
  • Richard Schindler, "The Expectant Landscape: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Illustrations for The Hobbit," in J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit Drawings, Watercolors, and Manuscripts (Milwaukee: Marquette, 1987), pp. 14-27
  • Nan C. Scott, "War and Pacifism in LOTR," Tolkien Journal 15 (Summer, 1972): 23-25, 27-30.

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