Resources for further Tolkien Study
Helpful websites and links to learn more about Tolkien scholarship:
Center for Fantasy and the Fantastic
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review
Tolkien Archives at Marquette University
Books for further exploration
These are in no particular order, just how they come to mind. These are books that resonated with me and are only here because I read and enjoyed them.
Tolkien titles
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of Arthur, Pearl, Beowulf and the Sellic Spell, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, The Story of Kullervo, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, The Silmarillion, Leaf by Niggle, Tales from a Perilous Realm, The Book of Lost Tales I and II, Smith of Wootton Major, Beren and Luthien, The Fall of Gondolin, The Children of Hurin, Unfinished Tales, Roverrandom, Father Christmas Letters, The History of the Lord of the Rings vol. 1-7
Other Titles that are influences on Tolkien’s works
Beowulf
Judith
Pearl
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Kalevala – Alias Lonroot
The Volsunga Saga
Poetic Edda
The Icelandic Sagas
The Yellow, Green, Lilac and Red Fairy Books – Andrew Lang
Books on Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography and The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpentar
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Author of the Century, The Road to Middle-earth, and Laughing Shall I Die by Tom Shippey
Other Titles in Fairy Lore, Mythology, and Series
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower, The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
Children of Blood and Bone, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Toni Adeyemi
The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
The Voyage of Bran
Hrolf Gautreksson
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
Other Great Reads
The Book Thief by Mark Zusak
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Papyrus by Irene Vallejo
Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
All But My Life by Garda Weisman Klein
Caste by Isabella Wilkerson
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele
Films
Favorite films and movies that may be of interest to you–they are in no particular order just as they come to mind. Feel free to add to the list.
- The Beautiful Fantastic
- The Thirteenth Warrior
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lord of the Rings
- Children of Men
- The Beautiful Fantastic
- Jaws – I love them all but #1 is the best
- Mystic Pizza
- Harry Potter – 1-8
- Thor – Ragnorok
- Krull
- Gone with the Wind
- Delores Clariborne
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- West Side Story
- King Lear – Judy Dench
- Star Wars
- Penelope
- The Commitments
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Boondocks Saints
- Carlito’s Way
- The Untouchables
- Boondocks Saints
- Trainspotting
- Ferris Bueller’s Say Off
- Atomic Blonde
- Elf
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- Miracle on 54th Street – the original
- Philadelphia Story
- Pay it Forward
- Steel Magnolias
- Moonstruck
- The Breakfast Club
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