J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia

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Adaptations
Art and Illustrations
Characters in Tolkien's Work
Critical History and Scholarship
Influence of Tolkien
Languages
Life
Literary Sources
Literature
Middle-earth, Creatures and Peoples of
Miscellaneous
Objects in Tolkien's Work
Places in Tolkien's Work
Reception of Tolkien
Scholars, Medieval
Scholarship by Tolkien: Medieval Literature
Sources
Stylistic Elements
Themes in Tolkien's Work
Theological/ Philosophical Concepts and Philosophers
Tolkien's Contemporary History and Culture
Works of Literature

Adaptations

Film Treatments
Boyens, Phillipa
Bakshi, Ralph
Film Scripts, Unused
Jackson, Peter
Rankin-Bass

Television
Television: US Coverage
Tolkien Remembered: Humphrey Carpenter

Stage
Dramatizations: Stage and Spoken

Art and Illustrations

Art and Illustrations by Tolkien
Artistic Movements
Artists and Illustrators' Influence on Tolkien

Characters in Tolkien's Work

Ælfwine
Aragorn
Arwen
Beorn
Beren
Bilbo
Boromir
Denethor
Earendil
Elrond
Elves: Kindreds and Migrations
Eomer
Eowyn
Eru
Faramir
Farmer Giles
Father Christmas
Feanor
Finrod
Finwë and Miriel
Frodo
Galadriel
Gandalf
Garm
Gimli
Glorfindel
Goldberry
Gollum
Grima Wormtongue
Legolas
Lúthien
Melian
Merry
Morgoth and Melkor
North Polar Bear
Old Man Willow
Pippin
Sam
Saruman
Sauron
Shelob
Smith of Wootton Major (Character)
Theoden
Thingol, Elwe, Elu Singollo
Thorin
Tom Bombadil
Treebeard
Turin
Two Trees
Ungoliant

Critical History and Scholarship

Bodleian Library, Oxford
Children's Literature and Tolkien
Criticism of Tolkien, 20th Century
Tolkien Scholarship: An Overview
Tolkien Scholarship: First Decades
Tolkien Scholarship: Institutions
Tolkien Scholarship: Since 1980

Influence of Tolkien

Auden, W. H.: Influence of Tolkien
Gaming
Literature, 20th Century: Influence of Tolkien
Parodies
Undersea landscape: Features named after Tolkien characters

Languages

Alphabets and Languages Invented by Tolkien
Alphabets, Invented
Languages Invented by Tolkien

Languages Known by Tolkien
Danish Language
Dutch Language
Esperanto
Finnish Language
French Language
German: Modern
Gothic Language
Italian Language
Language: Theories of
Languages: Early Introduction and Interest
Latin Language
Lombardic Language
Nevbosh and Animalic (Invented Languages)
Norwegian Language
Old English
Old High German
Old Mercian
Old Norse Language
Russian Language
Spanish Language
Swedish Language
Welsh Language

Life

Biography
Bournemouth
Childhood of Tolkien
Dagnall, Susan
Education
Estate
Family Background
Father Francis Morgan
Geach, E. F. A.: "Romance"
Great Haywood
Haigh, Walter E.
Ireland
Jones, Gwyn
Kolbitar
Leeds
Library, Personal
Lord of the Rings: Success of
Lyme Regis
Marriage
Neave, Jane
Oxford
Ransome, Arthur
Reynolds, R. W.
Suffield Family
Tolkien, Arthur
Tolkien, Hilary
Tolkien, Mabel
Tour in the Alps, 1911
Vale of the White Horse
Warwick
Whitby
Wolvercote Cemetery
World War I
World War II

Children and Descendents
Tolkien, Christopher
Tolkien, Baillie
Tolkien, Faith
Tolkien, John
Tolkien, Michael
Tolkien, Priscilla
Tolkien, Simon

Inklings
Barfield, Owen
Coghill, Nevill
Dundas-Grant, Jim
Dyson, Hugo
Havard, Humphrey
Inklings
Lewis, C.S.
Lewis, W. H.
Matthew, Gervase
McCallum, R. B.
Sayers, Dorothy
Wain, John
Williams, Charles

TCBS
Gilson, Robert Quilter
Smith, Geoffrey Bache
TCBS (Tea Club and Barrovian Society)
Wiseman, Christopher

Literary Sources

Anglo-Saxon
Battle of Maldon
Caedmon
Charms
Christ: Advent Lyrics
Cynewulf
Danes: Contributions to English Culture
Elf Shot
Genesis
Guthlac: Poem
Juliana
Physiologus
Riddles: Sources
Runes
Saint Oswald
Seafarer
Solomon and Saturn
Wanderer
Ylfe, Alfr, Elf

Classical
Greek Gods
Latin Literature
Plato
Tertullian
Virgil

Continental Europe
Carolingians
Dante
German Folktale: Deutsch Mythologie
Mythology, Celtic
Mythology, Germanic
Old French Literature
Old High German Literature
Romances: Middle English and French

England
Alcuin
Brut by Layamon
Deor
Leechbook and Herbarium
Milton
Shakespeare
Spenser

Middle English
Arthurian Literature
Orfeo

Scandinavia
Finland: Literary Sources
Old Norse Literature
Saxo Grammaticus

Literature

Unpublished by Tolkien
Arthurian Romance

Theoretical Concerns
Christian Readings of Tolkien
Class in Tolkien's Works
Environmentalist Readings of Tolkien
Feminist Readings of Tolkien
Fictionality
Gaze
Gender in Tolkien's Works
Jungian Theory
Knowledge
Marxist Readings of Tolkien
Power in Tolkien's Works
Race and Ethnicity in Tolkien Works
Race in Tolkien Films
Racism, Charges of
Sexuality in Tolkien's Works
Subject Theory and Semiotics
Symbolism in Tolkien's Works
Theological and Moral Approaches in Tolkien's Works

Middle-earth, Creatures and Peoples of

Biology of Middle-earth
Dwarves
Easterlings, Middle-earth
Elves
Ents
Fairies
Food
Health and Medicine
Hobbits
Maiar
Men, Middle-earth
Technology in Middle-earth
Valar
Wizards

Miscellaneous

Bennett, J.A.
Bliss, Allen
Collecting
Dragons
Joyce, James
Merchandising
Philately
Popular Music
Pseudonym: Bagpuize, K.
Publishing History
Saint Brendan
Textual History: Errors and Emendations
Turville-Petre, Joan

Objects in Tolkien's Work

Arkenstone
Arms and Armor
Calendars
Elendilmir
Elessar
Lembas
Mithril
One Ring, The
Palantiri
Phial
Rings of Power
Silmarils
Weapons, Named

Places in Tolkien's Work

Angband
East, The
Eldamar
Gondor
Hobbiton
Koivië-néni and Cuiviénen
Kôr
Lonely Mountain (Erebor)
Lothlorien
Magic: Middle-earth
Mandos
Mirkwood
Misty Mountains
Mordor
Moria
Rivendell
Rohan
Shire
South, The
Taniquetil
Tavrobel
Tol Eressëa
Valinor
Wilderland

Middle-earth
Arda
Astronomy and Cosmology, Middle-earth
Elves: Reincarnation
Maps
Middle-earth
Monsters, Middle-earth

Reception of Tolkien

America in the 1960's: Reception of Tolkien
Denmark: Reception of Tolkien
Fandom
Fan Fiction
Fan Art
Finland: Reception of Tolkien
France: Reception of Tolkien
Germany: Reception of Tolkien
Greece: Reception of Tolkien
Hungary: Reception of Tolkien
Italy: Reception of Tolkien
Japan: Reception of Tolkien
Netherlands: Reception of Tolkien
Norway: Reception of Tolkien
Poland: Reception of Tolkien
Russia: Reception of Tolkien
Spain: Reception of Tolkien
Sweden: Reception of Tolkien
Technological Sub-Cultures: Reception of Tolkien

Scholars, Medieval

Gordon, E. V.
Gordon, Ida
Grove, Jenny

Scholarship by Tolkien: Medieval Literature

AB Language
Beowulf and the Critics
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Beowulf: Tolkien's Scholarship
Beowulf: Translations by Tolkien
Chaucer as Philologist: The Reeve's Tale
Devil's Coachhorses
English and Welsh
Exodus, Edition of
Finn and Hengest
Fourteenth-Century Romance, A
Frances Thompson: Article for Exeter College Essay Club
Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
Ithlen' in Sawles Warde (1947).
Katherine Group
Middle English 'Losenger': A Sketch of an Etymological and Semantic Inquiry
Middle English Vocabulary
MS Bodley 34: A Re-Collation of a Collation
New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District, A
Old Norse Translations
On Fairy Stories
On Translating Beowulf
Pearl: edition by E. V. Gordon
Publications, Posthumous
Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire
Seafarer: Ida Gordon Edition
Secret Vice, A
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo: Edited by Christopher Tolkien
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Edition with E.V. Gordon
Some Contributions to Middle English Lexicography (Scholarship by Tolkien)
Valedictory Address
Williams, Charles: Essays Presented to

Sources

Bible
Cruces in Medieval Literature
Denham Tracts, The
Egypt: Relationship to Númenoreans
Folklore
History, Anglo-Saxon
Homer
Huns
Literary Influences, 19th and 20th Century
Prehistory: "Cave Men"
Roman History

Medieval History
Aldhelm
Alliterative Revival
Augustine of Canterbury
Bede
Goths
Gregory the Great
Guthlac, Saint
King Alfred
Langland, William
Manuscripts, Medieval
Missions from Anglo-Saxon England
Norman Conquest
Saracens and Moors
Viking Raids

Medieval Literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Owl and Nightingale
Scholars of Medieval Literature, Influence of

Stylistic Elements

Alliteration
Alliterative Verse by Tolkien
Comedy
Epic Poetry
Frame Narratives
Grammar
Humor
Lyric Poetry
Prose style
Rhetoric
Rhyme Schemes and Meter

Themes in Tolkien's Work

Animals in Tolkien's Works
Authorship
Caves and Mines
Colors
Descent
Doors and Gates
Doubles
Druids
Elements
Enchantment
Eucatastrope
Exile
Existentialism
Faërie
Family Trees
Heroes and Heroism
Hierarchy
Jewels
Kingship
Mountains
Music in Middle-earth
Mythology for England
Nature
Northern Courage
Oral Tradition
Orality
Plants
Possessiveness
Quest Narrative
Renewal
Riddles
Ring-Giving
Rings
Sacrifice
Song Contests
Textuality
Theology in Lord of the Rings
Time Travel
Towers
Treason
Trees
Tyranny
Violence
War
Women in Tolkien's Work

Theological / Philosophical Concepts and Philosophers

Allegory
Angels
Aquinas, Thomas
Asceticism
Augustine of Hippo
Butler, Samuel
Catholicism, Roman
Christ
Christianity
Church of England
Darkness
Death
Despair (Wanhope)
Devils
Dreams
Earth
Eucharist
Fall of Man
Fortune and Fate
Free Will
Good and Evil
Heathenism and Paganism
Heaven
Hell
Homosexuality
Immortality
Incarnation
Justice and Injustice
Law
Light
Memory
Mercy
Paradise
Penance
Pilgrimage
Pride
Prophecy
Redemption
Resurrection
Saints
Satan and Lucifer
Sin
Suicide
Time

Tolkien's Contemporary History and Culture
Capitalism
Communism
England, 20th Century
Environmentalism and Eco-Criticism
France and French Culture
German Race Laws
Germany
Industrialization
Judaism
Literary Context, 20th Century
Nazi Party
Philo-semitism
Politics

Works of Literature

Elvish Compositions and Grammars
Farmer Giles of Ham
Father Christmas Letters
Hobbit, The
Holy Maiden Hood by J. Furnival: Review by Tolkien
I.Lam.na.Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue
Leeds University Verse
Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
Manuscripts by Tolkien
Mr. Bliss
Mythopoeia
Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings
Northern Venture, A
Obituary for Henry Bradley
Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Edited by Tolkien
Qenyaqetsa: The Quenya Phonology and Lexicon
Road Goes Ever On
Roverandom
Silmarillion
Smith of Wooton Major
Spring Harvest, A: G. Bache Smith, ed. J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien Reader
Tree and Leaf
Unfinished Tales

History of Middle-earth
Book of Lost Tales I
Book of Lost Tales II
History of Middle-earth: Overview
Lays of Beleriand
Lost Road
Morgoth's Ring
Peoples, Middle-earth
Return of the Shadow
Sauron Defeated
Shaping of Middle-earth
Treason of Isengard
War of the Jewels
War of the Ring

Poems
Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Collection)
Poems by Tolkien in Other Languages
Poems by Tolkien: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Poems by Tolkien: The History of Middle-earth
Poems by Tolkien: The Hobbit
Poems by Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
Poems by Tolkien: Uncollected