This is a general guide to British author J.R.R. Tolkien and his works, including ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘The Silmarillion’, and ‘The Hobbit’.

With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.R.R. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy novel. For readers and students getting to grips…

The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works and a timely companion to the world of Middle-earth. The core of the book examines Tolkien’s novels as linguistic maps with meaning…

Poetry and song are a powerful leitmotif to J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythological universe. Following the publication of Tolkien’s two verse works: The Lay of Atrou and Itroun (2016) and Beren and…

Ideal for any fan of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings saga, this work is considered by many as Tolkien’s epilogue. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying…

A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field.

Tolkiens Erstlingswerk The Hobbit gehort zu den Stiefkindern der Literaturkritik. Dabei weist dieses vornehmlich an Kinder gerichtete Werk bereits die gesamte Fulle von Tolkiens Schaffenskraft auf und ist in seiner…

The birth of modern fantasy in 1930s Britain and America saw the development of new literary and film genres. The work of extraordinary people who lived in an extraordinary decade…